The Educator's Notebook

A Deep Reflection On Inclusion, When It’s Real, And When It’s Not
Medium - 4/25/17

"By celebrating the inclusion of insiders — people of different genders and races who have been pre-assimilated into Silicon Valley via Harvard or Georgetown or Stanford — the industry misdirects attention from the inclusion of actual outsiders. We don’t change much by publicizing that we have hired people that we would have hired anyway… You’re a woman who went to Harvard, we have a job for you! You are an African American engineer from MIT, we have 6 competing offers! That’s not to say that these candidates aren’t fantastic, they are. It’s saying that we’re not looking past race and gender to other forms of socioeconomic mobility.”
Personalized Learning: A State Of Industry (Getting Past Buzzwords)
Center for Curriculum Redesign - 4/1/17

"It is largely an umbrella term that overlaps with other education concepts—such as adaptive learning, differentiated instruction, competency-based education, and learning analytics. The Data & Society Research Institute offers a schematic for unpacking this range of genres and terms.”

When/How Complaining Can Be Constructive
New York Magazine - 5/1/17
“(It’s Great To) Suck At Something”
New York Times - 4/28/17

"I’m hooked on the pursuit of those moments, however elusive they may be. But it’s not the momentary high that has sustained me. In the process of trying to attain a few moments of bliss, I experience something else: patience and humility, definitely, but also freedom. Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.”

The Effects Of Being Clearly Mission-Driven
Gallup - 5/4/17

"Our research shows a direct link between employees' understanding of their company's identity and key measures of business health.”

On Literary Evolution, And The Teaching Of Empathy
Nautilus - 4/27/17

"Stories that vault readers outside of their own lives and into characters’ inner experiences may sharpen readers’ general abilities to imagine the minds of others. If that’s the case, the historical shift in literature from just-the-facts narration to the tracing of mental peregrinations may have had an unintended side effect: helping to train precisely the skills that people needed to function in societies that were becoming more socially complex and ambiguous.”

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