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Could there actually be one “C” to rule them all?!

March 22, 2013
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Could there actually be one “C” to rule them all?!

Some describe four ”Cs” of essential skills for this 21st century – traits such as: Critical thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity. Some list five or six ”Cs.” Five: Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Character. Six: the list above plus cultural competency. Other people and organizations talk about seven ”Cs.” Here is one version of seven “Cs”: Communication Connection Collaboration/Cooperation Creation/Contribution Community Continual Learning Culture All of those C-words are...

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Book Review: Bringing Innovation to School @SuzieBoss @SolutionTree

November 29, 2012
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There has been an explosion of interest in and writing about innovation. By no means have I read all of the latest works on innovation, but I have read quite a bit – books and articles by Tony Wagner, Clayton Christensen, Steven Johnson, Tom Kelle buy cialis online uk y, and Peter Drucker. Most...

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Making reality a school. #IDreamASchool

September 28, 2012
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If school is meant to prepare students for real life, then why doesn’t school look more like real life? This is the primary question that has kept me research-busy for the past seven to ten years, at varying degrees. Of cour Personal Path To Pregnancy (tm $$$bonuses, Contests, Upsells se, there are countless corollaries...

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CHANGEd: What if school leaders practiced the change they preach…and developed a people strategy? 60-60-60 #57

September 14, 2012
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CHANGEd: What if school leaders practiced the change they preach…and developed a people strategy? 60-60-60 #57

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Orchestrating Conflict, Developing Experiments…and Carving Butter: Adaptive Leadership #PBL Ponderings

July 19, 2012
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Orchestrating Conflict, Developing Experiments…and Carving Butter: Adaptive Leadership #PBL Ponderings

When information enters the mind, it self-organizes into patterns and ruts much like the hot water on butter. New information automatically flows into the preformed grooves. After a while, the channels become so deep it takes only a bit of information to activate an entire channel. This is the pattern recognition and pattern completion...

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A future of synergists and dot connectors…for enhanced customer experience

December 2, 2011
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I am a synergist. I love to work at the intersection and collision of ideas, disciplines, and departments. Of course, like anything, I have to practice this skill, and I hope to continue progressing in the synergizing of things. As Carol Dweck has taught me to say, “I am not yet the synergist that...

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Process Post – Exploring Lines of Flight, Orchestrating and Coordinating #Innovation, and Other Murmurations

November 24, 2011
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Process Post – Exploring Lines of Flight, Orchestrating and Coordinating #Innovation, and Other Murmurations

Preface “Birds of a feather flock together.” How is it that various flocks of birds fly together in non-linear formation? How exactly do they communicate with each other to cut and cross paths in synchronized patterns? Is there a captain or a conductor or a coordinator? Do zigzagging birds rotate those roles of captain,...

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JH 2.11

August 27, 2011
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JH 2.11

At the opening Junior High School faculty meeting, I shared that I would be referring to us (internally) as “JH 2.11.” Like version software, such as OS 10.6 or Windows 7, the Junior High School is adopting an internal nomenclature that will help us remember that we are striving to improve and grow. The...

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A Single Note Can Make It All Worthwhile

August 12, 2011
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There was a single note on the teacher’s desk. Turning the envelope, she slid her curious finger under the seal, anxious to read what awaited her. Just the crackle and hiss of that seal being broken blocked out the ambient sounds of anything else around. Wrestling the note from the casing, she realized she...

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Goal Keepers

July 23, 2011
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Goal Keepers

Minutes ago, I sent the following email to the Junior High School faculty and administration at The Westminster Schools. Dear Junior High Faculty and Administration: As has become my practice, I am sharing my Goals & Self-Assessment with you all. Please find them attached. Also, today, I published a series of three blog posts...

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Can you spare 27 minutes for learning and world peace?

June 4, 2011
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Do you have 27 minutes to devote to both educational reform and world peace? Do you? Just 27 minutes of your life. Twenty minutes is for watching the TED talk below -  John Hunter on the World Peace Game. Two minutes is for reading my words here, which I try to make brief and...

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Calling all thinkers: “Revision, Redemption, and Grades?”

April 15, 2011
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What’s in a grade? This is a question that I ask myself almost everyday, if not actually everyday. Recently, my learning partner, Synergy co-teacher, PLC co-director, and fellow faculty member – all one person…Jill Gough – posted this important system of inquiries about grades. The original post can be found at her primary blog...

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The Essential Conversation

April 14, 2011
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The Essential Conversation

Parents and schools (teachers, administrators, staff, etc.) are members of the same team – partners – striving together for the same goal. The goal, I hope and trust, is to collaboratively guide and support our children/student-learners as they grow, develop, learn, fail, rise after failure, succeed, question, figure out life (as we do, too),...

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This blog is the collected thoughts of school administrators that want to share best practices in education. All of the authors have different experiences in education but all have the same goal; ensuring we do what is best for students.