"Sorry I can't challenge these ideas for you, but challenging old ideas, reconsidering ideas and trying new ones makes sense to me.
Agile mindset combined with growth mindset... worth thinking more about.
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I have been thinking about something a colleague said to me last week. We had been watching part of the film Race to Nowhere as part of a professional day. In the debrief afterwards she said, "We…Continue
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The Agile Mindset: EdCamp Meets Mr. Penumbra
There are always those snippets that stick in my mind at the end of a conference presentation or in this case, en EdCamp session. Listening to Don Buckley describe design thinking, I latched onto the term he used "agile mindset." What people really need in the 21st century is an ability to update, shift gears, change course. His example was the continual stream of updates we get for our computers, but I see it as much more than that. We need to be willing to learn, always, everywhere.On Spring…See More
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"I agree about avoiding the uncomfortable conversations, often to our detriment. The schools that will thrive and prosper in the future are those that will force themselves to have those uncomfortable conversations now."
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"That is what we perceive and experience. We shifted our European history course to be world history and dropped the textbook. I ended up having a meeting with the parents who were concerned about even these changes. After the discussion, the parents…"
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"Molly, There was a long discussion here a while ago about Clayton Christensen's book Disrupting Class that is relevant to your questions. Christensen's research found that it is the customers of an organization who are often most…"
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Thoughts about Freedom and Change
I have been thinking about something a colleague said to me last week. We had been watching part of the film Race to Nowhere as part of a professional day. In the debrief afterwards she said, "We have more freedom than we think we do." She was referring to our ability to craft our curriculum and the way our school works. As independent schools, we are fortunate to be free from many of the incredibly restrictive district mandates and the dreaded testing which seems to drive so much in public…See More
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The Agile Mindset: EdCamp Meets Mr. Penumbra
There are always those snippets that stick in my mind at the end of a conference presentation or in this case, en EdCamp session. Listening to Don Buckley describe design thinking, I latched onto the term he used "agile mindset." What people really need in the 21st century is an ability to update, shift gears, change course. His example was the continual stream of updates we get for our computers, but I see it as much more than that. We need to be willing to learn, always,…
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