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Jaime Escalante Thank You For Believing In Kids The System Gave Up On
Jaime Escalante was an immigrant from Bolivia that would not accept that students in his classes at Garfield Highschool in Los Angeles, CA were not capable of passing an Advanced Placement Calculus test. He passed away yesterday, but it is [...]
AZ Technology Council Forum
Some cool stuff AZ Tech Council is doing that came up at the AZ Tech Council forum.
CEO Network
Mentoring Program
Political Action Committee
520 Members and Growing
New law library
Member promotion services
Relaunching career center
Quarterly speakers (NASA, Google)
University Changes
Relocate major tech university (like MIT) <– [...]
Oblivious To The Things You Do
Sometimes when you are in the heat of doing things you become completely oblivious to how things are being perceived by others. At AgileOpenNorthwest we were talking about Agile software development and started to talk about Where Are Your Keys. [...]
Posted in Agile, Education, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal
Tagged Education, Gangplank, innovation, Integrum, Productivity
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Encouraging Institutional Innovation By Changing How We Educate
John Hagel’s Edge Perspectives has an excellent article on challenging mindsets from reverse innovation to innovation blowback. It reinforces our mindset in why we are passionate about how Gangplank is structured and why concepts brought out in Gangplank Jr [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Gangplank
Tagged challenge, economic development, economy, Education, Gangplank, innovation, manifesto, mindset, Productivity
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Sunday Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: If you desire to understand how your brain works and how you learn this [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged brain, brainstorm, Creativity, Education, Productivity, reading
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Sunday Review: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Deliberate practice is hard work, but is the only sure way to becoming excellent [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, music, Productivity, reading, talent
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Maybe Teacher Unions Are Part of the Problem
House Bill 2011 was signed on September 4th and went into effect November 24th. What exactly is bill 2011?
Districts can no longer have policies that use seniority or tenure for retention or reduction in force.
Districts no longer have to rehire [...]
U of A in Downtown Phoenix.. Does This Smell Funny?
There is a lot of talk about U of A building a new cancer center in downtown Phoenix. There is no denying that this would help fulfill long ago given promises made by the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. I am not [...]
Posted in Education
Tagged arizona, asu, biomedical campus, downtown, economic development, Education, phoenix, politics, uofa
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Slashing K12 Budget, Getting Real is a Bitch
Many people asked me what I thought about State Legistlator approving a nearly $140 million cut in soft capital budget for K-12 education. I never like to see education getting it’s budget cut. However, it’s time to get real. Getting [...]
The Arizona We Want Where Doing Takes Ten Years
Dr. Lattie Coor, started a Think Do Tank (Center for the Future of Arizona) after stepping down as president of Arizona State University in 2002. I never really paid attention, but recently this Do Tank spun an initiative called The [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, arizona state university, arizona we want, asu, az republic, Community, economic development, Education, policy, politics, think tank
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