Posted in educational technology, inspiration, intentions, journeys, k-12 education, leadership, learning, new beginnings, practice, purpose, teachers, transformation on June 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Schools out. Summers here. This is a time for reflection and renewal. I invite each of you to go about reflection and renewal deliberately, and with a healthy dose of self-honesty.
Look back on the past year and ask yourself:
“What is it that I learned this year?”
“If I boiled my experiences down to the one or [...]
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Posted in dennis harper, developing nations, educational technology, inspiration, john edwards, k-12 education, leadership, learning, liberia, new beginnings, purpose, transformation on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Perhaps our way forward is simple. Rather than continuing the endless narcissist debate about transformational change in American schools…”how should we do it? can it be done? do we need to tear it down and start over”, etc; we can focus our energy and resources in an effort to provide basic education to developing nations.
This [...]
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Some of us might have difficulty explaining what it is that makes a successful leader; but like great art, when it comes to leadership, we know it when we see it. What is the secret? What do great leaders have that you and I don’t? The truth is that each of us has the gift [...]
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Most educators, maybe most of the general public, live their lives in the belief that scarcity is the way of things. There is only so much to go around, so be sure that you fight for your piece of the pie, even if is at the expense of another.
Our attitudes toward scarcity are reflected in [...]
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Posted in executive coaching, inspiration, journeys, k-12 education, leadership, leadership development, learning, new beginnings, teachers, transformation on June 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Miguel Guhlin’s post “Broken Scales” raises some important questions about professional and personal learning. Miguel describes a team meeting where his team helps him “see the light”.
“At the team meeting, with vigorous discussion of my team, I realized that I had a choice–continue to be fearful and try to retain control while seeming to give [...]
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I wonder if developing a healthy student culture might be a key to transforming our schools. No matter what we do with the curriculum, or with pedagogy; it is all for naught if the students’ culture runs contrary.
Is the culture one where students value academic achievement, or are they living in a “It’s [...]
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