Tag: education
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LL38: Teaching Leadership in a Classroom
Is it possible to teach leadership in a classroom? As someone that teaches leadership in the classroom, it’s been and probably always be a question that I ask myself. As the saying goes, you either have it or you don’t have it – so that begs the question, can it…
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Corporate Run Higher Education
I’m definitely not an expert in this, but I recently watch a program FRONTLINE: college, inc. Here’s the link. You have to check it out. It’s very interesting. It is a program that takes a look at for-profit higher education institutions. It’s fascinating to see the difference between a corporation…
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Publishers and Education
As much as publishers sound like they’re about education and teaching you – they’re about publishing. Publishers publish. Educators educate. Books are produced to sell. Don’t get me wrong. I buy a ton of books. I have a ton of books – it might actually weigh a ton. But books…
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Did Not Do Well In School
Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn’t really discover what they could d0 – and who they really were – until they’d left school and recovered from their education. The Element p. 9 – Sir Ken Robinson A…
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Stigmatized Failure
What do you think about failure? What do you think about this idea that there is value in failure? We have stigmatized failure. We don’t like it. We’ve been conditioned to hate it. We’ve been “educated” against it. We’re such functional dualists that we can’t think about failure coexisting with…
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Life and Questions
So how do you handle life and questions? You like that I started with a question? I was thinking about this today. I was wondering why is it that when we have questions – that we need answers. Is it a western mindset? Is it just an American thing? Is…
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What We Teach
I work at a school. What do we teach? Yes, we teach writing, reading, and math. Sometimes we teach art, singing, and creativity. But because it is a formal education setting – not the schola of old – we teach compliance. That’s what we teach. Do this for a A…
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Shiny Objects
I’m sitting in this huge ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Wendy Kopp from Teacher for America is speaking. There are 4 huge 20 feet screens above the stage. Even though Wendy Kopp is standing up front in the middle of the room on the stage, most everyone would rather…
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Bored not Dumb
There is a reason why students are leaving college and/or not hanging out at school. It’s not that students are dumb. Students are bored. We as educators bore students. We talk about student engagement – because we’re not that good at it. As educators, we need to create an environment…
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Move to Think
If you stop to think about our educational system and what we unintentionally teach to our students – we prefer that our students: – Sit still – Raise your hands if you want to stay something – Color in the lines – Stand in line – To do math every…
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The Curious Life
So I was watching Dinner Impossible – and a commercial came on – a commercial for Kahlua of all things. What caught my attention was the motto. They had mentioned to be safe in your Curious Life. Now, this is in no way a commercial for Kahlua, but I love…
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Friday Furloughs
This is not news to anyone in Hawaii, but the state government has instituted Friday Furlough for all public schools on the islands. It is about the dumbest idea ever. Now I do realize that there is always more to the story than we know. The people making those decisions…