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QWERTY
In Jim Collins’ latest work, Great by Choice, he offers the following shift in innovation strategy: fire bullets first…then cannon balls. A warfare metaphor? Yes. But what does it mean?Traditionally,...
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The Human Potential Business
We are in education. We aren’t in the happiness business or the customer service business or the product development business. We’re in the human potential business. We are so NOT one-size-fits-all,...
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Transformaction
The world we know is built on transactions. Everything is a matter of give-and-take. We exchange what we have for things we want and need of similar value. Economically speaking, it works. We have...
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Apples to Apples?
In terminal one at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, right across from Chili’s, is a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory shop, where they have a standing offer that you can buy three caramel apples...
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Change This!
Change is a challenge. It’s not easy. It goes against self-interest. It alters the path we thought we saw just ahead. It creates discomfort and uncertainty. And yet it’s the only way to improve...
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We're All in this Together
The Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, Massachusetts form a regional school system where the two towns each fund their own K-8 programs and then jointly finance the cost of Algonquin...
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I Think…Therefore…MI!
Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence’s theory is a longstanding high-interest topic in education. The initial interest for educators is the notion that everyone learns differently. The immediate...
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Honor Your Learner Experience
We need to revolutionize the ways we work, the ways we teach and the ways we learn. Not simply reform the old model, but transform public education into a new, global, innovating enterprise that...
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The Story of Jamie
As the Information Age continues to unfold, educators at all levels are faced with several competing factors in promoting teacher efficacy and student achievement: brain research, instructional...
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End Quiet Desperation
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” -ThoreauIn an era of shifting certainties, there are two ways to move forward: hold on tight to what is...
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Energy, Power and the Leader-sphere
Have you ever thought about the difference between energy and power? We use them interchangeably when discussing fuel, but not so much when discussing people. Energy is the availability of power, and...
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Defy Gravity!
This past week I listened to Dr. Gene Carter, Executive Director of ASCD, deliver his opening remarks at our Leader to Leader conference in a crowded ballroom of eager ASCD leaders from around the...
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You owe it to Yourself
Did you ever have a relationship with someone who had really pronounced personality traits…and those traits happened to be what you most admired in them AND what would most drive you crazy about...
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Open the Flood Gates
One of the legacies of the Industrial Age is the ideal of standardization: creating products of consistent quality that can be mass-produced. Coming out of the Agricultural Age, this was a huge step...
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Less Friction. More Traction.
What’s your agenda? Do you know? Do you think you know? How honest are you with yourself? Because if you aren’t honest with yourself, you’re not going to be honest with anyone else.Everyone has their...
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“You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!”
“You're gonna need a bigger boat!” -Police Chief Brody, JawsThree able men are shoveling chum out into the water to attract the menace terrorizing their beaches. Suddenly an image begins to take form...
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"As-Is"...Not "As-If"...
It’s currently popular on social media to share memes that say something to th effect of, “Don’t expect anything and you’ll be grateful for whatever life sends your way!” I am taking issue with this...
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Walk On
I spent time this weekend visiting a place that has been very significant to me, especially over the last year. I did it to come to terms with the fact that I can’t go back.I know they say you can’t...
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An Education Engine
http://www.iste.org/store/product?ID=2286In this election year we continue hearing about “twenty-first century” skills. But what we should be talking about, IMHO, is what’s after the twenty-first...
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Rich, Real World, Performance-Based Learning
Howard Gardner challenged that prevailing definition of intelligence with one concise description of what it means to be smart: “the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in...
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