We are an evolving group of educators who have come together to learn from a diverse group of gifted, interesting, and sometimes provocative, learned people in the world. We’ve learned from the likes of Edgar Schein, Peter Block, Richard Sheridan, Stan Slap, and poet David Whyte; provocative educators David Berliner, Gene Glass, and Yong Zhao; linguist George Lakoff; and researchers and professors Carol Dweck, Andy Hargreaves, Art Costa Bena Kallick, Jon Saphier, Yong Zhao, and Tony Wagner.
We are about learning and exploring ideas to understand more deeply the institutions of education. We are also intrigued by the processes individuals experience while learning. Our blog is about current issues around learning. We offer reviews of books we’re reading. And we focus on “New Rules”– the changes in attitude and behavior we educators must exhibit to survive in our world of surprising changes.
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Traditions – Transitions – Transformation By William Sommers & Brandon Mergard “If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki Many of the processes still in place today are grounded in past philosophies. Frederick Taylor – Scientific Management, Theory X – Command and Control, and a […]
Dear Learning Omnivores Heather Lageman and I are reading the book, “The Power of Mattering.” Students need to know they matter, and they are smart. With the current uncertainty in schools and communities we think it is equally, if not more important, to make sure teachers, custodians, food service, bus […]
How Educational Leaders Can Transform Summer into a Season of Growth and Joy by Heather Lageman While we focus on preventing “summer slide” in student learning, educational leaders have their own opportunity for transformation. Instead of viewing summer as recovery time, what if we approached it as a “Summer Surge” […]
