I know there’s been a lot of talk of late about getting back to “normal” and the quest to regain some of our old rhythms in life. Everyone is exhausted.
Effective leaders are learners. And that’s never been more true than right now. With all of the change, the challenges, and the problems that leaders are confronting in this chaotic
This blog post is republished with permission from Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. A number of folks have been eagerly encouraging schools to ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic. Here is
Let’s start here: Curriculum is just a guess. And to paraphrase the late, great Seymour Papert, now that we have access to just about everything there is to know, what
Our Unpleasant Truths | Will Richardson series: Part I: Where Have They Delivered Us? Part II: How Do Educators Get Unstuck? Part III: Schools Were Not Built For Learning School
Covid-19 has profoundly disrupted business as usual within schools, causing institutions across the country to scramble as they attempt to maintain services in the face of unforeseen obstacles. Operational challenges
By Tedd Wakeman, Co-Founder and Director, the Sycamore School (CA) As trends continue toward “rigorous,” standards-based educational practice, those of us on the front lines of reimagining education continue to
In Part III of Unpleasant Truths, Will Richardson asks a key question: How do we take the very natural act of learning in children and make it happen in the very unnatural space of the classroom?
February 5, 2021 Traditionally, there are several reasons why independent schools undertake a new strategic plan: Today, there is another reason that was not considered as recently as last year:
January 28, 2021 – John Watson Back in the summer, the New York Times ran an article whose title explained a key problem with the health care response to COVID-19: