Thought Leaders

For most of us No is the last thing we want to hear, especially as we progress through our career. In this, my twentieth year in education all the No’s led me to where I am today. I started my career in education in the very small town I grew up in, just about ten...

Learning has ALWAYS been personal. Even when we were sitting in lecture halls with hundreds of others, whatever learning we took out of the experience was personal. We either owned it, or we didn’t. Governmental insistence over the last several decades,...

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...