Introducing The Learn[ed]Leadership Podcast
Mar27

Introducing The Learn[ed]Leadership Podcast

It’s that time of year again, Spring Break!  For my international teacher friends this means trips to Bangkok or some other far flung low-cost destination.  Living in Hawaii I am blessed with a number of beautiful locations to celebrate a little time off.  Whenever a wonderful holiday break comes in the year, I’m remind of something an inspiring educators once told me when I asked how he kept balanced.  He said, “I think...

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Need a Job?  Invent It.
Apr25

Need a Job? Invent It.

WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s “a translator between two hostile tribes” — the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner’s argument in his book “Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World” is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently “adding the value and teaching...

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Video: Tony Wagner TEDx NYED

“What the world cares about is not what you know, but what you can do with what you know, and that is a completely different education problem.   Then the question becomes do you have the skill, and do you have the will to use the knowledge you have acquired?” Tony Wagner’s words and passion for innovation and entrepreneurship ring true with many things I’m finding in the world of education around me.  Take a...

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