“The only reason to carry out a test is to improve a process, to improve the quality and quantity of the next run or of next year’s crop. Important questions in science and industry are how and under what conditions observations may contribute to a rational decision to change or not to change a process to accomplish improvements. […]
As the year draws to a close, many people are beginning to look ahead to 2015. For millions of students across the country, advancing their education and expanding their career opportunities is top of mind. They will be google’ing, looking at US News & World Report College Rankings (watch for their 2015 rankings – coming out on […]
5587.5587 are the number of days that I have spent living, breathing, thinking and working on online learning. Over that time we have made remarkable progress in a space that virtually did not exist 20 years ago. Below is a brief, high-level summary of what has transpired over those 5587 days (at least how I […]
Is Coding The Key to Innovative Thinking? With this week being Computer Science Education Week, I thought I would share a hypothesis. It is that coding can be a key to innovative thinking… This story starts in a land far far from here, many years ago. The setting was Mr. Hildebrand’s Computer Science class and […]
I will start by saying I am a big believer in performance funding models in education. Maybe it is due to my time working with Julie Young at Florida Virtual or maybe it is because I am a big goal setter – both in my personal life and work life. Without clearly defined goals […]
Every year I re-read Peter Drucker’s Harvard Business Review article ‘ Managing Oneself‘. I use it to make sure I am on track and mindful of my own performance and what I can do better. There have been 100’s (maybe (1000’s) of summaries and reviews of ‘Managing Oneself’ but thought I would share a different […]
As we approach Thanksgiving, I am reminded that this will be the first time in seventeen years that ‘the boy’ (our Chinese Shar Pei) will not be with us. While it has been an adjustment, it is also a reminder that everything is ephemeral. That is what inspired me to craft this post: Five Things I Learned From […]
I am not sure if it was because my mother worked at IBM for 26 years and there were ‘Think’ signs, emblems, t-shirts, and all kinds of other swag around me but I am maniacal about carving out time to think. Just to think. I highly recommend it. Today I am thinking about the massive […]
Initial results are in. And they look pretty good. In December of 2012 The Charles A. Dana Center, Complete College America, Inc., Education Commission of the States, and Jobs for the Future published a white paper on the Core Principles for Transforming Remedial Education. It was an impactful piece of work and laid the groundwork for […]