21st Century Collaborative

There is a transformation I believe must take place in teaching and learning practices if elementary and secondary schools are to remain relevant in an era when information and communication technologies will continue to expand exponentially. In this Education Week Teacher interview with education journalist John Norton, I describe the shift that needs to take [...]

As the CEO of a professional development company whose mantra is “Professional Development for the 21st Century Educator” I find myself continually cognitively juggling what’s best for my clients, what’s best for their students, and what’s best for our contractors and staff in an effort to find some way of making it all align with [...]

Dear Will, You know better than anyone that I am an optimist. I truly do see possibilities more than problems. Well, I woke up this morning feeling empty. I woke up grieving for children. I blame it on a dream I had. A dream about unhappy students, hundreds of them, shuffling through halls with broken [...]

Without a doubt some of my best personal learning lately has been done in the company of two Australians: Sofia Pardo  and Richard Olsen of ideasLab in Melbourne. Over the past three years I have spent countless hours online and in person with these two brilliant minds thinking about the knowledge construction that happens in [...]