Redefining the Jobs To Be Done of teachers
Traditional business looks at the world in terms of product and service categories. But the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory flips that perspective on […]
Traditional business looks at the world in terms of product and service categories. But the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory flips that perspective on […]
Feb 6, 2013
I spent a few hours recently with the head of a brand new blended-learning school. The school is pushing the bounds of blended learning with […]
Oct 3, 2012
When 56 high school students in DeKalb County, Georgia, recently returned to school after summer vacation, they could not find on their schedules the math […]
Oct 2, 2012
Since being published in 2010, Doug Lemov’s book Teach Like a Champion has been heralded as the preeminent playbook for effective teaching. I’ve read the […]
Sept 19, 2012
A couple of pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post have attracted some attention over the past couple of weeks for their descriptions […]
July 26, 2012
I had the opportunity recently to revisit Doug Lemov’s book, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College, which […]
July 18, 2012
In Jay Mathews’s recent column, “Nothing Can Replace a Good Teacher,” he describes a sad scenario in which a seventh-grader in Michigan was enrolled in […]
July 17, 2012
June 8, 2012 Honorable Arne Duncan Secretary of Education U.S. Department of Education Washington, D.C. 20201 Re: Comments on Race to the Top District draft […]
June 11, 2012
Back in January, my friend Bror Saxberg, chief learning officer of Kaplan, published an eye-popping blog about a meta-analysis that Kurt VanLehn published recently about […]
Apr 5, 2012
ImagineK12, an incubator modeled after Y Combinator to help education startups “get it right and get funded,” held its first demo day for its first […]
Sept 22, 2011