Our Inspiration

It is critical to scan the landscape for the big ideas that transform learning. Research and new ideas are at the core of what we do.

The Four Corners of Experiential Learning

April 10, 2024

Over the past twenty-five years, it’s been such a fulfilling experience to watch how experiential learning has made its way into every facet of education. From the application of ideas ...

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ChatGPT

Don’t run away from AI. Leverage it.

January 26, 2024

The party is about to get bigger and louder. Through all of the conversations around ChatGPT over the last few months, we’ve heard the doomsday prophets describe its devastating impact ...

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readiness

It’s time to rethink the 3Rs. Let’s add a 4th… Readiness.

October 26, 2023

The concept of the 3Rs of education appears to have originated in the 19th century although it’s fascinating to think that the notion that reading, writing, and arithmetic should serve ...

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Linger.

May 17, 2023

For a long time, I’ve been obsessed with helping companies create different kinds of development experiences that are hyperactive.  Our orthodoxies have been laser-like focused on creating return on the ...

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great smoky mountain national park

Redefining spaces for learning

August 21, 2021

Here we go again. As the new school year beckons, we are hearing the familiar refrains from August 2020 about a series of binary choices. Virtual versus live instruction. Masks or ...

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remote learning

One year later…

March 12, 2021

The one-year anniversary of the world shutting down due to COVID-19 has summoned a flood of perspectives and insights about the unthinkable change that has occurred in such a short ...

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mapping the journey

Mapping the K-12 Distance Learning Journey

May 27, 2020

This Spring, the K12 landscape was upended. As we chronicled the response from one school, valuable lessons emerged to transform the classroom of the 21st century. March 16, 2020 We ...

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outside

Mapping the K12 Distance Learning Journey – Phase 3

May 27, 2020

Last week, the principal of our elementary school announced to our ten‐inch by seven‐inch digital classroom that “school is officially closed” for the summer. Normally, that big moment is preceded ...

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remote learning

Mapping the K12 Distance Learning Journey – Phase 2

May 27, 2020

One month ago, my children finished Spring Break. Instead of returning to the physical classrooms, athletics fields, and hallway meet‐ups that defined their school year, they navigated their ways to ...

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virus

Mapping the K12 Distance Learning Journey – Phase 1

March 16, 2020

We received the official notice this afternoon that our “home school” would be in session beginning immediately as the nation prepares for its largest experiment in distance learning. Pre‐kindergarteners through ...

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