This book was recommended to me through my ISEEN Professional Affinity Group: Leading through Change, and I am so thankful for this recommendation. This is a difficult and challenging book to read ~ in fact, the author spends a few dozen pages trying to talk the reader out of reading the book in its entirety….
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Full disclosure, that Dr. Belle Liang and Tim Klein are working in a year-long consulting role at our school, and that is why I picked up this book – and I am so glad that I did. Not only am I excited about the work that we will be doing with them this coming academic…
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I first came across this book during an episode of The Daily, “The Rise of Deepfakes in American Schools”, where they investigated a terrible new trend about the use of generative AI use against young girls of colour. In the podcast, the hosts ask the question of schools,” How unprepared can we be?” One of…
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I had the privilege of listening to Elin Kelsey speak at the Global Education Benchmarking Group (GEBG) this past April. I had come across the book earlier and it had intrigued me as a great provocation for a course we were designing at Havergal College. But when I heard her speak, I knew I was…
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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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How might we understand the confluence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), Synthetic Biology, and conceive of a habitable future, with ethical considerations of what it means to be human – this books sets out to answer this ambitious question. The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: GAI and synthetic biology. Together they will…
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Being a parent of teenagers, and a educator that regularly interacts with teenagers in a high-stress environment (read: school), I found this book to be an incredible resource in the way it brings the neurological science, emotional science and practical tips and examples together. …raising adolscents is even more emotionally demanding than caring for children…
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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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As part of an upcoming PD experience, I am reading this book by Richard Barrett, and thought I would share some of the learnings. The subtitle of this book is “Cultural Health and Employee Well-Being as a Pathway to Sustainable Performance”. This alone makes this book compelling, as a resource to offer some answers /…
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