by edtosavetheworld | Aug 21, 2014 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
The Dalai Lama writes in his Ethics for the New Millennium: Happiness arise from virtuous causes. If we truly desire to be happy, there is no other way to proceed but by way of virtue: it is the method by which happiness is achieved. And, we might add, that the...
by edtosavetheworld | Aug 18, 2014 | Book Club
I recently found some “Happy New Year’s” cards I bought last winter during a bout of optimism about my ability to send them out during the busy holiday season. After kicking myself for not using them, I realized that New Year’s really doesn’t have that much...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 11, 2014 | Influential Thinkers
Yesterday we looked at the theory of transformation posed by Daszko and Sheinberg in their article “Survival is Optional.” Much of their theory rests on the idea that: “Transformation is motivated by survival, by the realization that everything needs...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 6, 2014 | Influential Thinkers
David Conley opens his most recent book Getting Ready for College, Careers, and Common Core with this paragraph: Teachers want students to learn. It’s one of the most basic reasons people go into teaching, and it’s certainly one of the basic expectations society has...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 2, 2014 | Influential Thinkers
It used to be that we could rely on an education system that created innovators by accident. People that changed the world with new ideas were the exception, not the rule. In his book Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner argues we can no longer afford this approach to...
