When I was started teaching (quite a few years ago,) I was told “the curriculum stops at the classroom door,” inferring of course that what happens inside the classroom can often be very different to what is ‘meant’ to be happening. The extent to which you believed this was a good thing or not depended

In our Changeleader Facebook group (which is nearing 600 people and hosting some intense conversations…join us) I tagged a few people including Ryan McClintock of the Mosaic Collective at Castle Rock (CO) High School to talk about the difference between work that’s focused on making schools “better” vs. making them “different.” For those of you

If you were given the chance to start a new school, what kind of school would it be? It’s the sort of opportunity many educators talk about, and then reality strikes. Are you talking about building a new school, or simply starting anew with an existing one? What constraints do I have? Do I get

There were a lot of people at this year’s ISTE Conference in Denver. Some estimates had it as high as 20,000 making it the largest of this format in the world, and which would appear to confirm the increasing acceptance of the role of computers in our schools. But what is that role? With nearly

In recent times an increasing number of educators are walking the educational tightrope to modern learning. It’s not easy, but it’s incredibly rewarding, and those that make it to the ‘other side’ do so because they don’t look down,  look back, or lament for past practice. Rather they are focused firmly on what is in front

Q: “In five years, what will be different about your business?” A: “The way we serve our end customer. We will be able to provide a highly personalized experience for our learners and customers that’s informed by data and delivered via a global learning and technology platform. It will be delivering a highly personalized education

I’m puzzled. Like all of you I read widely, and even more so as Will and I seek out ideas and insights that we can curate each week for EML from the wide range of media that we scan every day. There are many themes and memes that emerge, but one recurring topic really worries

It’s interesting to reflect on how often we hear or use the word dropout and yet barely give a second thought to its meaning or more importantly what it implies. Along the way it has become a measure of school success or more notably school failure, and is used in a similar manner across higher ed.

Almost six years ago, I wrote a piece for Huffington Post titled “My Kids Are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too.” (Nothing too provocative there, right?) My point was not that my kids couldn’t read or write or do basic math. School had done a decent job of making that happen. Instead, my point was

Who benefits most from the current model of higher education? While the existing model may have served post-secondary students well in times past, there is increasing evidence that we need to rethink the extent to which it is meeting the needs of today’s modern learners. For decades successive generations have accepted and built on what