“The CAP method helps students to move beyond themselves, engage with others, learn at their own pace, and show what they can do, rather than obsess over what they can’t.”— p.19 You would be interested in this book if… You are designing or leading programming that blends academic depth with student agency, purpose, and connection…
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Book Review: Free Agent Learning by Julie A. Evans Why Student Agency Should Reshape the Way We Structure School “School is no longer the sole repository of knowledge. Students increasingly have the agency and the means to adopt new self-directed, interest-driven behaviours outside of school.”— Julie A. Evans, p.1 “The voyage of discovery is not…
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Forward, Together: Vulnerable Leadership in Contentious Times “Do not judge people for not being where you are today. You weren’t there yesterday.” There are books we read to learn, and books we return to again and again to be reminded of what matters. Forward, Together by George Couros is both. Full of hard-won wisdom, vulnerable…
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Hidden Potential by Adam Grant How Rethinking Growth Can Transform Our Classrooms, Our Teams, and Ourselves “The true measure of potential is not how high you reach but how far you came to get there.”— Adam Grant, Hidden Potential As an educator and school leader, I’ve long been preoccupied with the question of how we…
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Book Review: 10-25 by David Yeager David Yeager’s 10-25 is an insightful guide that bridges generational divides, offering educators and parents profound insights into understanding, communicating, and mentoring young people. He was once a middle-school teacher, and was inspired by all of the challenges and tension he witnessed within the educational system. “I felt that…
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As alien as AIs are, they’re also deeply human. They are training on our cultural history, and reinforcement learning from humans aligns them to our goals. They carry our biases and are created out of a complex mix of idealism, entrepreneurial spirit, and yes, exploitation of the work and labor of others. In many ways,…
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“”I no longer accept anything that is not perfectly written at this stage. Why Bother?” Like Mollock, Fuentes and Hick, Educators are finding that these Generative AI tools make our students far more skilled and efficient writers. They are also finding that, where producing essays were once seen as essential to helping students gain mastery…
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I have been deep-diving into Stoicism these past two years through the books and podcast of Ryan Halliday (aka: The Daily Stoic). When I was introduced to Danny Bauer, one of the authors of “Calm in the Chaos”, it was clear that he was a learning-practitioner of Stoicism in the educational context and culture. Chief…
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“The Future is Analog” (2022) is David Sax’s follow up to “The Revenge of Analog” (2016). In this very readable, incredibly well researched, with a wide diversity of people referenced and interviewed, David Sax offers a welcome version of the future based on the tough lessons that we’ve learned through our experiences of the pandemic….
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We conclude that if higher education in the United States is to be successful in the twenty-first century, it needs to be sharply REFRAMED. Pervasive issues of mental health and belonging must be addressed; extensive onboarding is needed with respect to the centrality of the academic educational agenda; any goal that is not strictly tied…
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