I’m just back from this year’s NYSCATE Conference in Rochester, NY. Now I may be biased, because I am the current President of the organization; but this had to be one of the best conferences I have ever attended. There were plenty of educators providing high quality presentations, David Jakes and Gary Stager were excellent [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Thanks To Stager, Martinez, and Smith
Posted in Educational Technology, Inspiration, K-12 Education, One Laptop per Child, Poetry, Spirit, Transformation, tagged buy 1 get 1, nyscate, OLPC, One Laptop per Child, ox, thanks, thanksgiving, ws merwin on November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Big 3 Bailout and Education
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Transformation, tagged big 3 automakers, empowering students, Leadership on November 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It occurs to me that the institution of education is like the Big 3 automakers. For years they kept churning out gas guzzling, big cars and SUV’s even as the world around them was changing. Today, they sit in front of Congress being criticized for not making cars that people want, for not changing with [...]
Tone Counts
Posted in Executive Coaching, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Teachers, Transformation, tagged conflict resolution, connected, open, present, tone on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wow! Did I ever get a good lesson this week. I posted a reflection on the importance of preparing for the unspoken ‘affective’ components of meetings at the LeaderTalk blog. The premise of the piece was that most of us spend 90%-100% of our energy focusing on the ‘paper agenda’, the items from the cognitive [...]
Compassion and Respect
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, Executive Coaching, K-12 Education, Transformation, tagged compassion, leading change, respect, understanding on November 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I find the most difficult challenges in my work to revolve around the deep-rooted beliefs of the educators that serve our children.
Here is a sampling of a few of the limiting beliefs which are challenging me this Fall.
After sitting in on a data-team meeting the math department chairman pulled me aside to relate his [...]
Take Care of Today While Transforming Tomorrow
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Teachers, tagged tech planning on November 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The kickoff day for the long range technology plan had barely gotten off the ground when the teachers on the committee began to pull back into a shell of distrust and cynicism.
“”How can we be thinking about these new technologies when what we have isn’t working properly?”
It was true, the technology support for the [...]
