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 […]
Pilots: Pointing Toward the Progress We Want to See in School
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 first of those ideas: “Supporting pilots points toward the progress we want to see in the school. Piloting an idea foreshadows the direction […]
Showing Grace and Coming to Communion
This May, my daughter, Eleanor, will receive her first communion. When I join my wife and daughter for Catholic Mass, Eleanor joins Katie to walk forward for communion in order to be blessed by the priest. I do not join them for communion because I am not a Catholic, I am an Episcopalian. As a […]