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Leadership
Good Work: Horrible Bosses
In an ego-centered culture, wants become needs (maybe even duties), the self replaces the soul, and human life degenerates into the clamor of competing autobiographies. -Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. We all work with some real jerks. It can make it miserable to go to work. It’s a widespread problem and…
Personalized Learning
Finance For Future Generations
Brian Page By Brian Page “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” – John Adams On the…
EdTech
Chiefs for Change: Making a Difference for Kids
Chiefs for Change, supported by The Foundation for Excellence in Education, is a group of reform-minded state education leaders. Chair Tony Bennet said, "The adults in the system are well represented, but Chiefs for Change exists to represent the interests of students."
EdTech
Top 10+ TED Videos On Education & Learning
TED offers great ideas through its videos. Today we've featured more than 10 of the best videos on education and learning from some of the greatest thinkers and innovators who have spoken at TED.
Personalized Learning
Good Assessment Key to Strong Accountability
Some #EdReform, #EdEquality, and #EdPolicy colleagues thought my blog Assessment Will Advance When it Moves Into the Background suggested that I didn’t support the idea of summative assessments and their associated use in school accountability systems. This section may have begged the question: We’ll need to invent our way out of…
Personalized Learning
From Place to Service
The shift from print-based learning to digital learning is a big deal, but more fundamental is the shift from institution-centric education to student-centered learning. Rich Halverson spoke about Rethinking Education at SREB last month. Below is a list adapted from Rich’s book about the10 shifts that…
Leadership
Good Work: Developing Community Leaders
Advancing Leadership Youth From age 8 to 18 my parents dragged me along on weekly community service trips, first in DC and then the barrios of west Denver. I hated it. I’m pretty sure the routine was both service for them and training for me. A decade…
EdTech
NewSchools Presents: Education Entrepreneurs on the Future of Education
NewSchools, a venture fund working to transform education by supporting entrepreneurs, wrapped up its inspiring Education Entrepreneurs series yesterday with a closing video from several of its featured edupreneurs over the past four weeks.
Personalized Learning
Funding that Creates Incentives for Performance, Options & Innovation
Doug Potter, Austin Chronicle “How money is spent is as important as how much money is spent in education.” The Digital Learning Now report offers guidance to state policy makers on the technically and politically difficult subject of school finance in a video released today on…
Personalized Learning
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.