Posts in Newsletter
Big Shift #4: Making Individuals to Fostering Environments: April 2018 Newsletter

We adore the idea of using Valentine's Day as a reminder to celebrate all the different kinds of love and moments of joy in our lives and the world.

This fits well with the big mindshift of the month: from Efficiency to Possibility: We need to move out of efficiency frames and into possibility frames when we design school practice and policy.  Why?  Because designing for efficiency is destroying all the joy and love in school.

Read More
Big Shift #3: Critique to Vision: March 2018 Newsletter

We adore the idea of using Valentine's Day as a reminder to celebrate all the different kinds of love and moments of joy in our lives and the world.

This fits well with the big mindshift of the month: from Efficiency to Possibility: We need to move out of efficiency frames and into possibility frames when we design school practice and policy.  Why?  Because designing for efficiency is destroying all the joy and love in school.

Read More
Big Shift #2: Efficiency to Possibility (Instrumental to Intrinsic): February 2018 Newsletter

We adore the idea of using Valentine's Day as a reminder to celebrate all the different kinds of love and moments of joy in our lives and the world.

This fits well with the big mindshift of the month: from Efficiency to Possibility: We need to move out of efficiency frames and into possibility frames when we design school practice and policy.  Why?  Because designing for efficiency is destroying all the joy and love in school.

Read More
Big Shift #1: Symptoms to Systems - January 2018 Newsletter

We're starting the new year focusing on the first big shift in thinking required for real change in education: Symptoms to Systems. So much of our time in schooling and school reform is spent addressing symptomatic issues, while the real systems problems get ignored. A tell-tale sign that something is a systems issue is when symptoms are widespread and predictably patterned across different kinds of people and situations (e.g. anxiety and depression across many high-performing institutions, drop-outs in low-income institutions).

Read More