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Research indicates that one of the most powerful “attractors,” and most persistent “repellants,” in our workplaces is the quality and behavior of the folks leading the organization. Here’s a wish list (what we’d like Santa to bring us) for organizational leaders to...

Folks who are interested in continuous improvement — the purposeful pursuit of betterment — are really in the business of transformation. Transformational shifts occur when we learn to optimize the alignment of our Ways of Thinking, our Ways of Behaving, and our Ways...

I recently read A Leader’s Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom: Creating Support Systems for Teacher Success by John R. Wink (2017). JRW does an excellent job of providing a comprehensive framework to ensure optimal learning for ALL students. My...

There are two big drivers in our personal learning journeys: 1) Process, and 2) Outcomes. The Learning Processes entail things like: The content we consume — the knowledge, skills, ways of thinking, and ways of behaving The pace at which we learn...

Achieving continuous improvement in organizations is a tough slog. The efforts of each individual or division in the organization certainly helps. The stacking up of those efforts can be thought of as the addends in a mathematical sum. Looks something like this:a + b...

If you have been engaging in the virtual learning series hosted by CEN over the past few months featuring Dr. Bill Daggett, you should have heard two common themes: GPT3 (and 4, 5….) will result in a tremendous shift in technology’s impact on education and life in...

The difference in Gurus and Charlatans is more often in the delivery than in the substance. Most of us have a few of those Yoda-type Gurus whose insight is highly sought (and even occasionally heeded). What often has the effect of fingernails scratching along a...