by edtosavetheworld | Apr 20, 2015 | News and Trends, Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Everyone is talking about happiness. From Gretchen Ruben’s New York Times best seller (pictured right) to that infectious Pharel song, we’ve become obsessed with finding the right recipe for joy in our lives. Psychologists like Barbara Frederickson have...
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 13, 2015 | Testing and Assessments
One of the purposes of this blog is to push our thinking beyond our current boundaries. So, today I wonder how our priorities would change if we measured only two things: 1) How fulfilled are the lives of our students and alumni? 2) What impact are they making...
by edtosavetheworld | Sep 11, 2014 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
Thirteen year old Logan LaPlante asks a couple very important questions in his Ted talk. “What if we based education on the study and practice of being happy and healthy?” He quotes Dr. Roger Walsh who said: “Much of education is oriented toward...
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 | Mar 25, 2014 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
Here’s today’s challenge: trust someone. Yesterday we touched on the importance of trusting relationships to innovative organizations – now let’s make it happen. So whatever your job is, think about who you can trust today. Try it out and...
