Archive
component:when.leading-change
Change Your School’s Culture and Save the World
Adam Renfro, an innovative educator, talks about how we should create campuses that inspire students to learn and environments that students actually want to dwell in. Campuses should mimic or resemble prisons, he says. Renfro's first suggestion: create a gaming room.
Chief Executive of BELL Discusses Management Challenges & Solutions
This weekend, The New York Times writer Adam Bryant published a Q&A interview with Tiffany Cooper Gueye who is the chief executive of BELL, a nonprofit that assists urban children from under-resourced communities to achieve academic and life success.
Education Leaders Meet At the Wash. Education Innovation Forum
Policy leaders, foundations, district leaders, and local and national technology innovators plan to meet today at the Washington Education Innovation Forum, hosted by Robin lake and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), to explore how Washington can become a leader in education technology and innovation.
The Seven Steps to Becoming a 21st Century School or District
Last summer, as I was winding down my eight years as president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, I went around the country and met with 30 superintendents, asking them, "What can I do to support your efforts to implement 21st century education in your district?" Together we came up with the idea of creating a professional learning community (PLC) of education leaders committed to 21st century education. A team of us liked the idea so much that earlier this year we launched EdLeader21, a community of education leaders committed to building critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity into their educational system.
Indiana Chief Outlines Reforms
Tony Bennett is Indiana superintendent of public education. Bennet chairs Chiefs for Change and was recently recognized by Fordham as a leading reformer. Here's a few excerpts from his blog today.
18 Low Tech Ways to Help Kids & Educators Get Smart
I frequently write about new learning technologies, but there are lots of low tech learning innovations (i.e., produce better outcomes and potentially cost less). Here’s a lit of 18. I bet you can add two to the list to make it an even 20. At this point, some aren’t…
OpenEd: Changing the Way the World Learns
A New York Times article last week suggested that big ideas are dead. At Open Education Solutions, we don’t think so—we want to change the way the world learns. We see evidence of new approaches to learning that work better. Following are four examples of how we’re helping to deploy new strategies, structures, and technologies.
Good Work: Night Climbing
Leadership is…establishing where a group of people should go, getting them lined up in that direction and committed to movement, and then energizing them to overcome the inevitable obstacles that they will encounter along the way.
No More Big Ideas? 10 Edupreneurs Suggest Otherwise
Neil Gabler suggested in last Sunday’s NYTimes that there are no more big ideas. This week I talked to/about 10 edupreneurs with big dreams that suggest otherwise.
Good Work: Sentiments of Consideration
Leadership requires empathy at scale and a broad perspective. Certainty is great for execution but the politics of public education are personal and that perspective-building dilog.