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The 10,000 Parent Challenge: An Update
So first I just want to thank all of you who stuck around during the last session at Educon last week to extend this conversation, and to those of you who have signed on to see if we can make this...
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The Urgency for Change
I feel like I should do some fun tool blogging or great classroom blogging or something before heading down the depressing road of writing more about change in schools, but I guess I can’t help myself....
View Article“Online Learning” Isn’t “Learning Online”
(Cross posted to the Powerful Learning Practice blog.) So what does the following list suggest to you about the value of “online learning”: 1. I can work ahead if I’m able to 2. I get nearly instant...
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Crazy Days
Meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t get time. I think the headlines tell the tale around education right now. MICHIGAN NEW JERSEY WISCONSIN CONNECTICUT I didn’t even get to look at Texas… These...
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Personal Learning Networks (An Excerpt)
(Cross posted at the ASCD Whole Child Blog, here is a snip from my new book, co-authored with Rob Manabelli, which comes out in May.) Seventh/eighth grade teacher Clarence Fisher has an interesting way...
View ArticleValuing Change
The past couple of weeks have reminded me how hard it is for teachers to consider change when they don’t have a context for it and, most importantly, when they don’t value it. Case in point: recently I...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing a Lesson…Your Thoughts?
I get the great pleasure of spending an hour “teaching” in a classroom next Thursday with some 5th Year students at a school just outside of Sydney, and I thought I’d write a quick post soliciting some...
View ArticleTEDxNYEd Talk
From the Shameless Self-Promotion Dept. comes my TEDxNYEd Talk that I gave a few weeks ago. It was a real honor to be asked to do this talk, and I hope I did it justice. I found it incredibly difficult...
View ArticleAnd What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
So, the biggest learning news coming from the Richardson household last week has, as is more often the case than not, little to do with the classroom and everything to do with doing. Two quick stories,...
View ArticleThe “New” Normal
Tim Stahmer’s post “There’s No Normal to Return To” has me thinking this morning. He writes: At the same time we in education are also doubling down on the “back to basics” and on teaching kids how to...
View ArticleHave Schools Reached Their Limits?
(Cross posted to Huffington Post) The last couple of days I’ve been soaking in a new white paper “Right to Learn: Identifying Precedents for Sustainable Change,” a document that I think nudges the...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Always Known About Education
So this morning it’s David Weinberger that’s got me thinking. No doubt, David has been one of my favorite Web philosophers for a long time, someone who almost always seems to open the window just a bit...
View Article“There are Some People Who Don’t Wait”
This quote from Robert Krulwich of NPR caught my eye yesterday: But there are some people, who don’t wait. I don’t know exactly what going on inside them; but they have this… hunger. It’s almost like...
View ArticleThe UnCommon Core
(Warning: Elitist, preachy, liberal, rantish stuff ahead.) Lately, I can’t seem to get out from under the feeling that a) this country has pretty much lost its way and that b) at the end of the day,...
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10 Years of Blogging: Time for a Change and a Book
So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an amazing journey. I don’t think I could have imagined...
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