All Blog Posts Tagged 'change' (5)

Ben Grey raises one of the most fundamental q… Continue

Just got to a book last night which has been on my "anti-library" shelf for several months--Peter Senge's The Necessary Revolution (2008)--which I highly recommend. Here's an article from Business Week's "Innovation" section which reviewed the book last summer and spurred me to acquire a copy of it. The following paragraphs from the book's first chapter, "A Future Awaiting Our Choices," provid… Continue

In a comment at Sarah's blog,Intrepid Flame sums up where my head has been for about half a month. The real job is lighting fires among colleagues without burning them.

How can we slowly encourage people (teachers) to understand that the future is here with a sense of urgency, but at the same time not allow them to become defensive?

This is almost exactly the point of th… Continue

Today was another monumental day at school. For the first time, students were brought together to create the policies and consequences which they will follow in the upcoming year in the areas of attendance, lates, cellphone use and leaving school during the day. Areas, which up until now, had been the sole domain of the teachers and, usually, the principal. When I arrived to take over the principalship almost 4 years ago, attendance was an issue particularly relating to students arriving for sc… Continue

So you thought the ground you're standing on was always there and will always be there? Think again. Here's a link to a time-traveling website which shows how different the face of the Earth has been over time: PaleoMap Project. What will be the impact of educating ourselves and our children to see the natural world as it has been, is, and will be? Perhaps, taking the time to talk with them about the mysteries of life (preferably in some "sacred,"… Continue