Many of the articles online discuss the pros and cons of asynchronous and synchronous learning from one perspective (e.g. the teacher’s perspective) or are designed to help educators prepare their lessons for each kind of learning. This blog post is different in two...
If you have an onboarding routine that works, it probably is on automatic right now. Since we’re opening school in a pandemic this is a great time to redesign your onboarding process. We know who it’s for — new employees. Okay, but what do you want...
2020 has been one heck of a year. Before the protests there was a pandemic. In fact, there still is a pandemic. But if you go back to February 2020 in your mind’s eye, when COVID-19 cases were starting to exponentially increase outside of China, education was...
I’m reading a book on mental models. A chapter dedicated to evolution shares this quote: “Success is measured by persistence.”-Geerat Vermeij The thing about evolution is that you adapt or die. Not a bad reminder given the reality that schools and society...
Years ago we read The Happiness Advantage in the mastermind. (Nick if you’re reading I know that was your favorite book ?) The author shares that the magic ratio for positive-to-negative interactions is 3:1. Meaning, a leader needs to have three positive...
Loads of pigeons congregate near my flat in Glasgow. If I were to run toward them they would take flight, each in a different direction. Their goal is simple – survival. When a crisis hits people respond in different ways and that can be a problem. Emotions are high...