This is the second post in a series on community building. The following is a “laundry list” of recommendations Community Developers should consider in the creation of their social community. Adopt a paradigm that views the community construction process as one of co-design that compliments and enhances your organization’s mission and values. As you make [...]

Much of my life for the last 10 years has been spent thinking about, working with/in, developing, and leading online communities of practice. I promised the folks who co-lead with me at Powerful Learning Practice that I would create a series of posts this year that captured the knowledge, skills, dispositions and values I have [...]

How ironic right? So typical of leadership today (crazed with busy) that I am writing my leadership day post a day late. Indicative for sure of why we are not moving along faster in our leading of transformational change. We are so busy and overwhelmed with the work that who has time to change? For [...]

‘SO, DID THEY HAPPEN TO MENTION…?’ – A Poem about ‘Underperforming’ Schools, about Turning Around & Turning Out- They say that the tests scores are too low, Did they mention my students are hungry? that the school is underperforming and must be Did they say many have no fathers at home. “turned around,” that all [...]

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. – William James It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique. – Phillip [...]

Laura Varlas wrote an interesting piece in ASCD “Caught in the Middle” July 2010 | Volume 52 | Number 7 Called- Looking Within: Teachers Leading Their Own Learning She had me at her opening line, “The most powerful and ample resource for change in education is teachers’ own expertise. Yet, teachers are regularly overstepped when [...]

A good friend told me that he heard another friend whining about how he wished educational bloggers would get back to blogging from the heart. It struck a cord with me. While I am anything but a Chicken Soup for the Soul kind of blogger– (more emotion than substance in posts) I do think there [...]

Yesterday was fun. I was asked to be one of the presenters at the TIE/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp. More importantly I was also allowed to be one of the learners. During the facilitated round table discussions we had a process activity that I participated in as a learner. It was a 4 step writing process.  Which [...]

Alec Couros and I were talking the other day and I was reminded of a post I have been wanting to do about deep thinking, sharing and action. We originally connected to talk about a new project PLP is sponsoring, a virtual Institute for Higher Education, which Alec will lead, but it took us awhile [...]

While I am becoming more and more dissatisfied with Delta as my preferred airline because of treatment by most (not all) gate folks and flight attendants, I am finding that I am enjoying the networking opportunities with the folks I meet there more and more. I travel. A lot. Because of that I often get [...]