Tag: students

Being able to write a clear and concise essay has become even more important in today’s world, given our tendency to write in short blurbs all over social media. But writing instruction has disappeared in many of our traditional schools, and young learner’s writing ability has arguably disappeared too. Recently, EducationWeek online wrote a story…

I met Trace Pickering through the group Education Reimagined. Trace was a co-founder and director emeritus of Iowa BIG, a Cedar Rapids-based opportunity for traditional school students to expand into out-of-school human-centered education. Last fall Trace wrote an article for Getting Smart online titled “Perfection is a 2nd Rate Idea.” Pickering writes, “While listening to…

Michael Fullan is a hero of mine. He was very helpful to the education non-profit I led in Houston when it launched in the early 1990’s. Fullan, a professor emeritus, is a former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto and the global director of leadership for New Pedagogies for Deep…

Successful learning depends on strong partnerships, mainly between an adult learning leader and a group of young learners. Last fall, the Harvard Business Review posted an article titled “What Makes Creative Partnerships Work”. The article states, “In the most exceptional careers, it is often not all that lonely at the top: For the extraordinarily successful,…

Early in this new year, I read an article published in EducationWeek online titled “These Principals Insist on Connecting Every Student to an Adult They Trust.” The story starts with an important question for traditional school leaders, “How do principals ensure that students know they have at least one adult in the building they can…

Learning design includes deciding “where” learning will occur. Everyone knows by now that learning doesn’t have to happen inside a classroom, although the traditional system leadership has worked hard the past three years trying to convince us otherwise. In June of 2022, architect Randy Fielding, founding partner at Fielding International, a team of architects and…

Last week I shared an article written by Getting Smart’s Nate McClennen and Tom Vander Ark titled “The Great Education Unbundling and How Learning Will be Rebundled.” The concept of “Unbundled Learning” is part of a six pillar campaign Getting Smart launched last summer. I thought it would be nice to cover the other five…

Back in May of 2022, Getting Smart’s Rebecca Midles wrote an interesting article titled “Framing and Designing the HOW.” Midles uses Simon Sinek’s work on organizational why, how, and what as a guide to her writing. As we attempt to create a new system of learning, I thought it wise to return to Midles’s thinking…