Learning Chaos
Learning Chaos
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Episodes of Learning Chaos
Mark All
“Join the resistance” brings visions of fighting against tyranny and oppression. Most of us “join the resistance” when we’re about two years old, and we get in the habit of countering: pushing back rather than connecting. If we want to build mo
We make up stories about what we do and who we are. As leaders, we have responsibility to engage everyone in the story OF – what we do, how and why we do it. And we have a greater responsibility to be skeptical about the stories ABOUT ourselves
We carry around a marvelous instrument for influence and impact. Our voice. Yet how much time and effort do we put into developing this marvelous gift? With a little time spent rethinking how we speak, a little effort on development, we can cre
Two seconds of conversation with Leilani Cauthen is all it takes for her enthusiasm to grab you and hold you captive. She’s passionate about the amazing opportunities presented at the intersection of technology and the classroom. Her organizati
Teleology is a simple idea: let’s not adopt new stuff (including technology) until we’re clear that it serves our purpose. For our classrooms, let’s re-define teachers’ roles as guides of insight and meaning rather than as sources of data. And
Our better angel loves to listen. We can always improve our leadership by improving our listening. Here are some experiences and insights that will help you listen better, the route to knowledge, learning, and understanding. Not a bad payoff, r
In education, equality is about everyone; equity is about each one. Though we need to keep working on the first, we must shift our focus to the second if we are to improve learning. Students achieve more, much more, when they're invested in not
Embracing leadership includes embracing discomfort. New people, new situations, new ideas always bring what I call “the itch of discovery.” I need to remember that discomfort and pain are not the same. One connects to challenge, the other to ha
STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. For some school systems, this approach has become dogma. Find out about STEAMED, a more fun acronym for sure, AND a less restrictive, more powerful approach to learning and devel
Conflict is essential, illuminating, and energizing. Why not change our assumptions about conflict so we can use it as a resource rather than build on it as a barrier? That change is neither far-fetched nor naïve. It’s not easy, but it’s very s
X marks the spot of the treasure in pirate stories. X marks the spot of disappointment in our life stories. If we can practice accepting everyone’s mistakes as an opportunity to build trust and increase learning, we can move from blame to gain.
The “streams” in our schools – administrators, teachers, parents and students – seldom flow togethers, as if learning needs to be broken up in order to be managed. It’s time, past time, to see learning through a framework of leadership rather t
NEAR ENEMIES is a term I found, accidentally and with great delight, in a novel by Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month. A Near Enemy is an emotion that is damaging but that feels very much like a positive emotion, often masquerading and causing ha
Sonny and Mac continue their conversation about transforming schools. You’ll hear their passion as they recount stories and research that clarify what may already be obvious: what happens in most classrooms wasn’t even all that effective 50 yea
TMI. We’re flooded with surveys and percentages, data everywhere. Numbers are useful for management decisions; for leadership decisions we need to engage in conversations. We can move toward accepting ambiguity and different perspectives that c
Sonny Magana and Mac Bogert met through a mutual friend—an editor who shares their passion for learning. Sonny’s book, Disruptive Classroom Technologies, and Mac’s, Learning Chaos, both rely on research and decades of teaching experience to for
Schools will soon have uniform access to the internet, with all its promise and pitfalls. The arrival of the web in the classroom will bounce off old ideas about teaching and learning. Access without rethinking application will only produce fru
Seems to be a big push to see technology as the answer to poor learning in our schools. Until we free teaching from the strait jacket of industrial-era thinking, we will miss the opportunity provided by the internet and IT.
Where did we get the idea that without goals, we’ll never amount to anything? What if we see goals as useful but not necessary? What if we tended our tendency to let goals drive our anxiety and to reduce our flexibility, maybe even our effectiv
The generational divide. It keeps cropping up, as it should. Maybe we of the advance guard, the baby boomers, can stop carping about what’s wrong with the groups coming up behind us. After all, it’s their turn, or soon will be. Why don’t we mod
Maybe being tense is an addiction. Like alcoholism. What if we could learn to replace what I call present tense with present relaxed? Listen for a few minutes, just listen without trying to do anything else. Inducing tension is a habit; we can
Renee Sandell has found a life in art. An accomplished artist herself, she is passionate about art’s central power in life and in living. She brings that passion to a focus on art education. We can all understand art’s form, theme and context a
What if the more power we share, the more power there is? The answer to Why Share Leadership? is “because it works.” Schools, businesses and agencies can establish a more powerful, transparent and productive community when they see leadership n
Charles Sosnik is the Editor in Chief at edCircuit, a popular online magazine dedicated to education and learning. He and I share a devotion to improving the classroom, each of us hoping to make a difference in the opportunities for teachers, s
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