The Global Search for Education: Ideas Ideas Ideas Ideas!
“In the US, the main way [to impact teacher retention] is to improve the status and conditions of teaching as a profession.” — Sir Ken Robinson The Creative Oklahoma World Forum (@OK_Creativity) on March 31 believes #YourIdeasMatter. Our world faces problems everywhere. Creative Oklahoma has invited the public to tap into their innate creative problem-solving abilities and participate in a statewide brainstorm on...
The Global Search for Education: How to Improve – From Australia
“Highly effective schools in Australia are not different from highly effective schools anywhere. They have a strong focus on continual improvement, often with explicit school-wide goals for improving current school practices and levels of student achievement.” — Geoff Masters In his paper, “Is School Reform Working?”, Professor Geoff Masters (Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board, Australian...
The Global Search for Education: Education and Economy
“When jobs are changing rapidly, accumulating knowledge matters less, and success becomes increasingly about ways of thinking – creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving and judgment; about ways of working – collaboration and teamwork; about tools for working, including the capacity to recognize and exploit the potential of new technologies; and about the social and emotional skills that help us live and work...
The Global Search for Education: Creative China – Part 2
“It requires tremendous emotional intelligence, self-understanding, wisdom, maturity, and confidence to maintain a minimal interventionist attitude while offering non-judgmental support and encouragement. Teachers and students are the real stars of any great school, and real education leadership means playing a backstage and supporting role.” — Jiang Xueqin According to Jiang Xueqin, “the gap between the...
Hard, Soft or In Between?
Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance – a book review by C. M. Rubin What happens when you create a productive tension between HARD (persistent, challenging, competitive, data-driven, short-term) and SOFT (creative, collaborative, people centered, organic, long-term)? A groundbreaking new book, Uplifting Leadership, doesn’t just hypothesize that such an uncommon balance can turn...
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