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I just finished the book, Innovators’ DNA, by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. The comprehensive interviews the authors completed told an interesting story about the qualities that innovative people and companies exhibit. One of the first questions the authors pose is: where do disruptive innovations come from? In part, they answer the question by looking…
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Project-based learning (PBL) has received a fair amount of attention in the education community in the past five years. The Buck Institute, an organization devoted to PBL professional development, has been working on promoting PBL for the past 15 years. Currently, they operate about 100 PBL workshops around the country to nearly 4000 educators. In…
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What Teacher Characteristics Affect Student Achievement? Findings from Los Angeles Public Schools | RAND RAND researchers examined the relationship between teacher quality and student achievement by analyzing five years of math and reading standards tests and other records from students in elementary, middle, and high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) The…
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I was reading some blogs on New Year’s Eve and came across this video on The Future of Teaching website. You might ask, “why are you reading blogs on New Year’s Eve?” Not a very exciting thing to do! Well, true but it is a sunny, warm day in Atlanta and I have been out…
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In the December issue of Scientific American, we were presented with 10 World Changing Ideas that will transform how we live. While these innovations or “simple ideas” are not being widely used, they are being developed and will impact our lives in the near future. Here is the list: Medicine, The Forever Health Monitor, an…
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