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• Crossing The Lines

  
  Change your Thoughts for true Personal Development — Authority: 417
  How do we get from where we are now to where we want to be? We have to ‘Cross The Lines’. The line is an imaginary line which is the most powerful barrier we can overcome to realising the potential we have in everything we do. Some lines are crossed very easily. For example: getting out of bed in the morning to ...
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• Be More Than A School Administrator...Be An Innovation Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  I have an idea… "It will never work." "We don’t have the budget to do it." "It will take to much time and we just don’t have any to waste." "The district won’t like it." "Teachers won’t want to do that." "That isn’t the way we do things at this school." "What does that have to do with test scores?" ...
  5 days ago

• What Would Peter Drucker Say About Education Leadership?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  What follows is a quote from Peter Drucker ,but with an Education Innovation twist. I have removed words likebusiness, company, executive, and economics; and replaced them withschool(s), education, and principal. “Schools prefer not toabandon the old, the obsolescent, the no-longer-productive; they’drather hang ...
  1 week ago

• Mental Models

  
  Organizational Transformation by Asif J. Mir — Authority: 129
  Mental Models are the deeply held images of how the world works; we all carry mental models. They guide our thinking and action in familiar ways. In order to change, we need to change our mental models. We can’t change these models unless we understand what they are. Surfacing, testing and improving our internal ...
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• Essential Education: "Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom" by Alan November

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
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• Reflections on Croupier Investing.

  
  Reflections on Value Investing — Authority: 426
  crou·pi·er Function: noun Etymology: French, literally, rider on the croup of a horse, from croupe croup Date: 1709 an employee of a gambling casino who collects and pays bets and assists at the gaming tables Murray Stahl explores equity croupier investing. Harris Kupperman explores commodity ...
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• Small Stream --> Tributary --> Amazon.

  
  Reflections on Value Investing — Authority: 426
  Your analysis on Microsoft, why I should invest in it, and why I don’t could not be more on the money. In effect the company has a royalty on a communication stream that can do nothing but grow . Its as if you were getting paid for every gallon of water starting in a small stream but with added amounts ...
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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• Dumber Together? Brainstroming in a Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  You have seen it before. The PLC agenda says, “Brainstorm ideas for…” You look around and see the chartpaper, pens, and Post-It notes lying on the table, and you think toyourself, “Why do we waste the time.” You know the rules of brainstorming in PLCs … 1. No criticism 2. Wild ideas are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do The Math- The Networked Collaborative Formula

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative has a large network surface area. Network surface area is a measurement of the extent and number of connections from the team members who are physically present with each other, and community partners, useful outsiders, specialists, consultants, professors, etc. who ...
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• Educations Triple Bottom Line

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  How does an organization measure success?  One measure, or should I say three, is the Triple Bottom Line . According to Wikipedia , “The phrase was coined by John Elkington , co-founder of the business consultancy SustainAbility in 1994. It was later expanded and articulated in his 1998 book Cannibals with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Is Changing Your Mind So Hard?

  
  Brainware — Authority: 466
  The other day I met a former university colleague who I hadnt seen for several years, and we got into a conversation about how wed changed our minds on a number of important issues.  We also speculated about some of our mutual colleagues and were deciding which ones, when faced with research or other evidence, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Essential Education: "Trust Agents" by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  
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• Connecting the Dots

  
  Reflections on Value Investing — Authority: 426
  In his 2003 article Connecting the Dots , Malcolm Gladwell writes about the limitations of intelligence gathering, separating signal from noise, and the problems with Hindsight Bias : Fischhoff calls this phenomenon “creeping determinism” — the sense that grows on us, in retrospect, that what has happened ...
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• Putting Students First and Putting Teachers First: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  Part 6 in a series of posts on Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities In a previous post “ The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community ” I shared it is the ability to embrace a duality in their thinking that builds an Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community .To hold two opposing ideas in their ...
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• Six Steps To Becoming A Professional Learning Community Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  I have advised those concerned with the performance of Professional Learning Communities to gain fresh insight into how PLCs behave and information about how to drive improvement or fix problems is to play the role of the anthropologist. The Anthropologist is one of the three learning personas from the Tom Kelleys ...
  4 weeks ago

• Innovation Is Not Invention

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  Dont confuse innovation with invention- Innovation is not invention Every test youve ever taken measured how well you understood the past not how well you create the future.
  4 weeks ago

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