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The following pieces on education are worth reading or keeping on your to-do list. Many Students ‘Stop Out’ of High School, Studies Show Susan Sparks wrote a piece that looks at the number of students who may not ‘drop out’ of school, but who step away for a period of time, only to return later…
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Judy Willis (@judywillis), author of a number of books on applying findings in neuroscience to support classroom and instructional design, wrote an interesting piece on Edutopia (@edutopia), Using Brain Breaks to Restore Students’ Focus. Willis, a former physician, turned in her clinician’s lab coat for a position teaching science to Middle School students. Leveraging her background in medicine,…
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Atul Gawande has written about the importance of adding a coach in his practice of surgery. He speaks and writes about how the coach accelerated his learning in a number of dimensions of his practice, helping him to become a better surgeon. Here is a short video clip that illustrates his rationale for why coaching…
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It starts with each one of us! Here is a blog entry from the Center for Courage and Renewal, an organization that was founded by Parker Palmer, and it devoted to creating space for an inner journey that leads to wholeness. Their mission states: Our mission is to create a more just, compassionate and healthy…
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I was fascinated by this story and the pictures that capture a process so complicated it is hard to imagine. An operation so complicated it has only been tried 59 times in 64 years. An operation so complicated that it requires a team of 30 medical personnel working closely with one another to do the…
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