[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] A few back-of-the-envelope calculations here (estimating conservatively when in doubt)… A. Number of students and teachers 50 million public school students+3.3 million public school […]
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From a colleague’s e-mail autoreply: I am away for the summer semester and will return Aug 15, 2007. I will not be able to respond to your e-mail until then. […]
I’ll tell you something I’ve noticed from visiting a lot of American schools: the more traditional the teacher, the grimmer the mood. These classrooms don’t always resemble Dickensian factories, mind […]
Five days … twenty posts on school change … did we learn anything? Miguel Guhlin says, “Just finished skimming your entries. . . . Now, what do I do on […]
Will Richardson’s post covered the article in the New York Times about the growing popularity of virtual worlds for tweens (and younger). Think Club Penguin, Webkinz, etc. Will’s post included […]
The Washington Post has a tremendously sad series this week on the horrible state of the Washington, DC public schools, which are generally last in the country on any given […]
Back in March I posted that I was a finalist for the cable industry’s Leaders in Learning Awards . Last Wednesday I was officially named a winner . I spent […]
Okay, it’s time to try out a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant: the Report of the Week (ROTW). Can I find and feature an interesting education-related report each and […]
NCTE hates the idea. Teachers and administrators have mixed feelings. But are scripted curricula racist? Classist? Join the discussion at The Elementary Educator…
Are you a great teacher? A great principal? Know someone who is? You and they have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a difference at the epicenter of urban school reform. […]
One of the highlights of my trip to Washington, DC for the Leaders in Learning Awards was my interview with KFAI Radio back home in Minneapolis (click on the red […]
Two more weeks … Three more days … You hear these kinds of statements often during the last few weeks of school. I remember feeling this way when I was […]
Are edubloggers mostly white and middle class? What proportion of edubloggers have advanced degrees in instructional technology? Brian Grenier wants to find out the answers to these and other questions. […]
As I look around at all of the technology gear I’ve accumulated over the past few years, I can only come to one conclusion: I’ve got too much stuff. I […]
n Most organizations are paralyzed, stuck in a rut, staring at the growth paradox. On one hand, they understand all the good things that will come with growth. On the […]
Buckingham & Coffman. (1999). First, break all the rules: What the world’s greatest managers do differently. A really, really great book for leaders and change agents.
Peter Block, author of The Empowered Manager , noted that the apparent power of those at the top is much less than absolute. What leaders can do from the top […]
n One step is easy. One step isn’t enough. n Two steps is tempting. Two steps means that everyone understandsnwhat you’re up to when you pitch an idea to them. […]
This is the way we ought to be approaching our change initiatives, whether directed at students, staff, parents… [from http://tinyurl.com/2a9rt5]
Gladwell. (2002). The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference. Connectors, mavens, and salesmen. These are the folks you want as your allies. These people may or […]
Dr. Rosabeth Moss Kanter , who is perhaps our nation’s leading expert on organizational change, outlines ten reasons that drive resistance to educational change initiatives: Surprise, Surprise! Decisions or requests […]
Some quotes that I’ve used on this blog in the past… They say, “Sure, we need change.”I say we need revolution now. They say, “We can’t handle this much change.”I […]
[from http://tinyurl.com/bkbtk] No one jumps a 20 foot chasm in two 10 foot jumps. – Miguel Guhlin (comment at Remote Access)
Dede, Honan, & Peters (Eds.). (2005). Scaling up success: Lessons from technology-based educational improvement. How do we take successful programs and best practices serving a few classrooms or students and […]
Measure just about anything, and the distribution . . . almost always comes out as a perfect bell curve. . . . [The bell curve] even applies to the energy […]
[from http://tinyurl.com/aofe8] What would school organizations be like if every employee had the opportunity to pursue Option B? As Kathy Sierra notes, ‘What if the price for working on weakness […]
Collins. (2001). Good to great: Why some companies make the leap… and others don’t. Local communities strongly believe that their schools are good. ‘Good is the enemy of great.’ [see […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Why haven’t schools changed more? Maybe because they can’t. n In their 2005 Phi Delta Kappan article, Can Schools Improve?, Christensen, Aaron, & Clark […]
Pfeffer & Sutton. (2000). The knowing-doing gap: How smart companies turn knowledge into action. Countless leaders know what they should do. But yet desired change fails to happen. Here’s why.