Today I have spent some time thinking about a course I will teach next fall for the Global Online Academy. I have mentioned GOA before in a post entitled, “A Shout-Out to Partnerships: Their Relevance in A Progress Culture.” As opposed to the other courses at GOA that serve students drawn from the member schools, […]
This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South
This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South.This link above is to a film compiled from various timelapses, and it came today with an Annual Fund ask from Sewanee, my alma mater. I love this sort of photography. The care and precision required to create time lapse photography is remarkable, and […]
Pilots: Showing the Way Forward in Schools
In a recent post, “Creating a Progress Culture One Pilot at a Time,” I identified four reasons to support piloting ideas and programs in schools. In this post I will expand on the fourth of those ideas: “Supporting pilots creates opportunities for the school community to see the efficacy of the school’s direction. We need […]
Short Videos: Student Teaching of Critical Academic Concepts
Yesterday as part of a group of administrators and trustees from Westminster meeting in Cupertino, CA with representatives from Apple, Inc., I thought of an idea I would like to pursue. – The idea in short is to get a list, garnered from students and faculty, of the critical concepts in the high school academic […]
Pilots: Creating Safer Space for Experimentation in Schools
In a recent post, “Creating a Progress Culture One Pilot at a Time,” I identified four reasons to support piloting ideas and programs in schools. In this post I will expand on the third of those ideas: “Supporting pilots encourages experimentation and mitigates the damage that may occur when a new idea falls short. If […]
Pilots: Getting More of What is Good in Schools
In a recent post, “Creating a Progress Culture One Pilot at a Time,” I identified four reasons to support piloting ideas and programs in schools. In this post I will expand on the second of those ideas: “Supporting pilots creates opportunities to extend what is already good in the school culture or curriculum. The lion’s […]