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Category Archives: Education
Innovation: Organizing for Collaboration and Innovation through Policy, Innovation by Design
Recently I was invited to talk to a group of science educators about collaboration. I tend to rant a bit when talking about education, but at least it was a short rant. My talk starts about 3 minutes in…
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Political Bites : Are Rising Tuition Costs Making You Change College Plans?
Are increasing tuition costs making you rethink college plans for yourself or your children?
The combination of escalating costs and 20th century learning models have begun to make attending post secondary institutions less appealing for most potential students. Students are leaving [...]
Posted in AZ, Education, Political Bites
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Hierarchy of Reading
Abraham Maslow made the concept of hierarchies of progression in systems popular via his work on a hierarchy of needs. Below is a theory about the hierarchy of different types of readers.
Survival Reader
Only reads when critical to survival. This type of reader regularly denounces [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Personal, Productivity
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A Facilitator’s Best Weapon. Emotional Intelligence.
As a facilitator one of your jobs is to keep things on track. There is a finite amount of time to get the desired objective/output. Sometimes it is important to remember that interactions that seem like they are going no [...]
Posted in Agile, Creativity, Education
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Stop Treating Students Like Prisoners
When we will understand that treating students like prisoners, makes them act like prisoners? While Chandler Unified School District has noble intentions in considering installing camera’s on school buses. What they fail to understand is the destruction it will impose [...]
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Brain Storming at Willis Junior High iAcademy
Jade, Mike and I had a chance to sit with the teachers at Willis Junior High‘s iAcademy. This is a new program to the Chandler Unified School District. Principal Jeff Delp is pushing against the status quo and gave us [...]
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Supporting Arts and Culture is Fundamental to Place Making
Culture is paramount for the future of humanity. The presence of strong art and culture in a community serves as an inspiration to strive beyond ones self. It pulls us out of our own head and opens up new doors [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Education
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Political Bites : Montessori High School
Would Tempe Union’s proposed Montessori high school adequately prepare students for college?
Absolutely not. It would prepare them for the real world. Which is a much more noble goal. Montessori brings us back to a much more human development approach to [...]
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Valley Area Libraries Now Support Kindle Book Reader
I love to read. I love libraries. I have blogged before about my obsession with books. I regularly put out book reviews. I am extremely active on Goodreads. So today, is a special day for me. Many of the Metro [...]
Posted in AZ, Chandler, Education, Personal, Sunday Book Review
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Political Bites : Should East Valley Schools Start Later?
Would you support an idea to start the school year after Labor Day, when it’s cooler?
It would seem that the only reason to do so would be cost savings in air conditioning. Children in most industrialized countries go to school [...]
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