Adventures in Administration

I have been thinking a lot lately about teaching and learning.  We have had lots of Professional Learning over the last several years designed to bring our teachers "up to speed" on the current ideas being talked about and implemented in classrooms around the country (and around the world).  Topics like Project Based Learning ,   Design Thinking , Flex Furniture, the purpose of homework, how to maximize Google, and many others have been tackled by our staff.  however, it is Design Thinking that is most on my mind these days.  I am enamored with the approach and find that it is a logical sequence to follow for problem solving.  Our location, being only 13 miles from Stanford University, means that Design Thinking is becoming more and more main stream in schools and businesses,  Yet for some reason, I can't get our faculty to embrace this approach whole-heartedly.  Why?  Is it a case of initiative burn-out? Do we need more training?  Shou...

Photo Credit It has been one week since the start of #CUE14 and I am only now having the chance to start reflecting on my experience.  It was a fabulous 4 days of connecting, learning, reflecting, and dreaming (I stayed for the Google summit as well). My top take-always would have to be (in no particular order) - getting to connect with members of my far-flung #PLN in person is a priceless opportunity and great way to dive deep into some conversations normally limited to 140 characters -attending with a small team from my site, meant more excitement as we shared and debriefed - it was #CUE13 that started me on my journey of Twitter, presenting at conferences, becoming a better  educator, blogging, evangelizing to the "un-churched" about how school can and needs to be better if we would only try; what a difference a year makes! - there is always something new to learn -we all have skills, tips, tricks, ideas that can, should, and need to be shared While...