Last week I talked about two terrible, horrible, no good, very bad questions. This week I am talking about the one great question. As a backdrop. I am a volunteer coach for a local high school boys basketball team. (An aside, being a volunteer coach is great. I don’t have to make any decisions and I tell everyone they are great..what can…
(This is written as a letter to my two college-aged daughters.) (It is also the foundation of my learner-centered leadership beliefs) I apologize to both of you for every well-meaning person who has asked you these two questions: 1. “What are you going to be when you grow up?” 2. “What job are you going to get with that major?”People…
Raise your hand if you feel as if you are the hamster running on that wheel…working hard and staying in place! In our VUCA (Volitile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world, the number of micro and macro decisions that we are making is increasing. I think there is a direct correlation between the “more VUCA” the world is to the number of…
3 Drivers For Transforming Education Systems One of my “go-to” newsletters is The Learn Letter by Eva Keiffenheim. As the name of the newsletter states, she is concerned with studying how people learn. In her latest issue, she shares insights that a group of learning researchers she worked with to help make sense of education. The research team came up with three…
The Iceberg Model Of Systems Change We have all heard of the saying “that’s the tip of the iceberg” at some point in our careers. We usually use the saying to mean that there is a lot more going on with a situation than we can “see” at that moment. This week Jen Anderson shared this image with me. The image distills the importance…
What a great blog post I ran across last week. The author, Carey Nieuwof, makes a great point about why a lot of us (and I am definitely in this category) struggle mightily with time management. Reasons time management will not help you too much You are managing a fixed asset…24 hours in a day, that’s it! Time management will…
Post Traumatic Growth…Can You Help Your Staff and Learners “Get” It? I am in the process of raising three “Generation Z” people. My children are 21, 19, and 17 years old. Most of us are aware of the different generation cohorts; The Greatest Generation that came of age in the Great Depression and World War 2, The Baby Boomers who…
The promise of Web 3.0, which I introduced earlier, depends to a large extent on the blockchain. So let’s break down the blockchain. The easiest to understand definition of a blockchain that I found is from Coinbase: At its most basic, a blockchain is a list of transactions that anyone can view and verify. Think of the blockchain in terms of…
I believe it is imperative that learner-centered leaders are always peering beyond the headlights into the future. In particular, we need to pay close attention to the technological advances occurring in society that are coming down the road toward us. I am hesitant to use the word “technology” because it comes with a lot of baggage. All of us have…
I bet some of you reading this newsletter have danced around the feeling of being “burnt out”. The past 20 months have placed all learner-centered leaders in the middle of society’s culture wars. From masking controversies to quarantine issues, to vaccination, we are dealing with a lot of stuff. Interestingly, the more this whole pandemic thing drags on, the MORE…