I just can’t wait anymore! There is such a sense of urgency when it comes to innovating public education. As an educator, I am charged with guiding students to their fullest potential. I am not a sage or an expert or even a guru. I am a teacher. And for me, that means stepping aside and letting the students shine; letting them discover their passions and play out their curiosities. It takes courage to admit...
I love this graphic by John Spencer and I have been using it heavily when explaining innovation to teachers and administrators. It’s simple, but not easy. In fact, no one ever said that innovating would be easy. When you look at the long list of innovators: Steve Jobs, Leonardo Da Vinci, Ada Lovelace, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, etc… not a single one of them innovated easily. They all struggled...
When was the last time you believed that you could change the world? I was ten years old. Fifth grade. I remember going out on the field for recess. It was an incredibly windy day that afternoon; the kind of wind where you could almost lean forward into the gusts and you didn’t fall down. Buster Keaton style. I got this crazy idea that I would attempt to stop the wind. I grabbed two sticks...
What is the purpose of a curriculum map? Let’s think about that for a minute. The academic definition: “Curriculum mapping is the process indexing or diagramming a curriculum to identify and address academic gaps, redundancies, and misalignments for purposes of improving the overall coherence of a course of study and, by extension, its effectiveness (Hidden curriculum, 2014). However, most teachers use a curriculum map in the same way we use Google Maps: finding...
