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Today is the first day of a two-day Design Summit @AK12DC. Click here to follow Atlanta K12 Design Challenge. Eighty-five teachers from eleven schools are participating in a two-day summit using design thinking to address a critical issue facing their school. The project began five months ago with training of eleven facilitators, one from each…
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Giselle Martin-Kniep, President of Learner Centered Initiatives, spoke at ASCD 2014 about being sure we measure what matters. She asked two fundamental questions that were the focus of her exploration. What does measuring what matters mean? Do we have the courage and will to measure what matters? One way to get into a deeper discussion…
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I have been to a number of institutes and workshops on building an effective STEAM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, program in schools. Thus far, I have not left a professional development experience with a clear sense of what it means when a school labels itself, “a STEAM school.” Some schools offer programs students…
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A number of things that have happened recently that are helping me understand the value of mindfulness. While I have successfully used mindfulness activities in teacher cohort meetings I facilitate, I have yet to fully adapt it into my life or work. In our faculty cohorts, we have used the book, How to Think Like Leonardo…
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Today Thomas Friedman wrote at article in the New York Times, How to Get a Job at Google? In my professional network it was the “article of the day.” There must have been at least 10-15 references to it by 5:00 pm. Why is that? Is it because so many people love to read Thomas…
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