I admit to this much – I like thinking about process, and I have evidence – stacks of diagrams, outlines, flowcharts and whiteboard scratchings mapping a broad range of abstract notions about learning and organizations, – middle of the night outlines index finger tapped into Evernote or whichever app is…
First – That’s design not divine, OK? We are talking about outcomes that have to be worked for not wished for… In a Wall Street Journal Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses an idea pulled from a series of four articles in the September Harvard Business Review on the Evolution of Design Thinking.…
Read this subhead in an article this morning and knew I had to have it: Feedback and Data – The metronome of a blended classroom. This a subheading in an EdSurge article about the strategy an Aspire school used in implementing a rotational blended learning model. A quote from the…
We used to live in a world where few directed many: where one coach told his players to run this play; where a military general commanded a battalion to take that hill; where a CEO told his team to make those numbers. In that world everyone’s job was to use…
Last year I replaced a rapidly fading laptop. The old one had been durable, traveling to schools across the country for six or seven years. The new one, a wide screen, touchscreen, convertible, was getting its break-in during the start-up of a new school we were supporting. Getting late into…
MSSP launched fifteen years ago when we took on a grant funded challenge to address learning opportunities for urban students by developing local school models in partnership with eight school districts, each school designed for the learning needs of the community. Each model was intended to be unique, designed by…
Applying Context Sensitive Variables in Schools and School System Design A core element in using Context Sensitive Variables in design of schools and school systems is the intentional establishment of an instructional environment that is defined by the “context” variables that are key to achieving your intent. Context sensitive design…
