Another edition of Dan Pink's email newsletter. It's such a bonanza and it is not too long...

Continuing Education

One of the quotes that I posted in my classroom recently was

"The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read."

That's a reminder that we have so many opprotunities to move ahead through treading.

Here's what I look foward to... the infrequent letter from Dan Pink.

Here is his latest list of links to explore.  I encourage you to sign up for his email letter.

Welcome to the latest edition of our irregular and irreverent newsletter. In this issue, you’ll find: a brand new interview feature called “Four Questions For”;  the best piece of software I’ve downloaded in years; 4 books, movies, and podcasts I’ve recently discovered; and our usual collection of 7 must-read articles.

Let’s get started.

HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT: 4 QUESTIONS FOR JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS

We’re introducing a new feature here at the newsletter. I call it “4 Questions 4” (hereinafter “4Q4”). In every newsletter, I’ll enlist a smart writer with a new non-fiction book — and I’ll ask that person four questions. Four questions that cut through the clutter and get to the heart of what the writer is trying to say and what it means for readers. The same four questions every time. 

We launch 4Q4 with one of my favorite books of the year, How to Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (Buy it at IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon). Here are four questions for its author, former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims:

1. Julie, what’s the big idea?
We worry about neglectful parents, and rightly so. But there’s also harm at the opposite end of the spectrum: Overparenting. Whether via overprotection (think “bubble-wrapped kids”), overdirection (“tiger mom”), or too much hand-holding (“parent as concierge”) kids raised this way lack basic life skills, can’t think for themselves, don’t take the initiative, and suffer from alarming rates of anxiety and depression.

2. How do you know?
As Stanford’s freshman dean, I saw more students each year who needed a parent to tell them what to do, how to do it, or outright do it for them, and who couldn’t cope with even small setbacks. Colleagues nationwide saw the same. I realized overparenting was to blame when one night at dinner I began cutting my son’s meat (he was ten). I was already doing too much for him and was on track to be “that parent” who couldn’t let go of him at eighteen. 

3. Why should I care?
Parents: regardless of the short term “win” you achieve by overparenting (e.g. a higher grade), in the long term your kid will be mentally unwell, lack skills needed in the workplace, and be bewildered when you’re gone. Boomers and GenXers: we have to hand the mantle of leadership to these “kids” one day. If young adults increasingly lack the wherewithal to act and think like an “adult” – and lead our institutions and families one day – what’s to become of our society?

4. What should I do?
Teach kids to fend for themselves (e.g. wake themselves up, make a meal, keep track of their stuff, do their own work, meet deadlines, get places, talk to others, advocate for their needs, and bounce back from adversity). Here’s an easy four step method for teaching kids any skill: 1) do it for them; 2) do it with them; 3) watch them do it; 4) then they do it completely independently.

More: How to Raise an Adult

THE BEST PIECE OF SOFTWARE I’VE DOWNLOADED IN YEARS: ADBLOCK PLUS

Ads on the web are kinda creepy, right?  

Say you visit a sports goods site looking for swim goggles, but don’t buy anything. For the next week, that jilted vendor will follow you to every other place you visit — your bank, your local newspaper, that dermatology site you checked when you had that weird rash — beckoning you with ads for goggles you’ve already decided you don’t want. If this happened in meatspace, you’d call the cops.

A few weeks ago, perhaps later than some of you, I found a solution. It’s called Adblock Plus - a browser extension that blocks ads. It’s free, open-source, and it works like a dream.

Now I’m no longer assaulted by ads (though I can whitelist certain sites from which I do want ads). And pages load much faster.

Of course, some argue that ad-blocking technology will kill certain web sites by denying them revenue. But my view is that these innovations will force publishers to create better, more useful, less annoying ads or figure out less creepy methods for paying their bills.

More: Adblock Plus 

4 MORE THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE

Here’s some other stuff I’ve liked lately:

BOOK: The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics. Barton Swaim’s vivid, funny, and often sad account of a few years writing speeches for a peculiar and persnickety southern Governor.

DOCUMENTARY: Going Clear. From HBO Films, a look inside the bizzaro world of Scientology. Riveting (and slightly terrifying). 

NEWSLETTER: Sunday New York Times Digest. Matt Thomas reads the Sunday Times so you don’t have to. No crossword help, though. 

PODCAST:   Hidden Brain. An amazing new show from NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam. It launches next week, so be sure to subscribe now.  (Disclosure: I have a small role in this one). 

7 ARTICLES WORTH READING
From my Instapaper account to your email inbox comes our most popular feature. Here are 7 articles that caught my eye and charged my brain: 

How to Graciously Say No to Anyone
The more time I spend on this planet, the more I realize that one secret to well-being is saying no. Austin Kleon explains how to do it with a touch of grace. 

How to Improve Your Writing: 5 Secrets From Hollywood
Structure, surprise, and the importance of being semi-miserable. More shrewd advice from Eric Barker.

What You Miss When You Take Notes on a Laptop
Shut the MacBook and take out a pen. You’ll be a better note-taker.

A World Without Work
Very thoughtful Atlantic article by Derek Thompson about automation, leisure, and the meaning of work.

The Coddling of the American Mind
Another great Atlantic piece, this one about the lunkheadedness of protecting college students from ideas they don’t like.

Not an Introvert, Not an Extrovert? You May Be an Ambivert?
The Wall Street Journal’s Elizabeth Bernstein on one of my favorite topics. 

Traffic signs with a heart ask you to stop - in the name of love
Luc Rinaldi at Macleans covers another topic near to my heart: Emotionally intelligent signage.

BONUS: If you’ve still got the time and the mental bandwidth, here is a short Wired story I wrote on the science of being happy at work. And here is a (not universally loved) PBS Newshour video essay I did explaining why parents, even nice ones, shouldn’t watch their kids' athletic events.

That’s all for this edition.  As always, thanks for reading our humble newsletter. 

Cheers,
Daniel Pink

"Our Stories Matter" (a new book by Hans Hickler) can help students see that writing is a skill used throughout life.

Dan Pink has been writing for nearly a decade about the power of stories in advertising and persuasion.

I did a search on "the power of stories to persuade" and the list of articles confirms Pink's claim that stories often connect more than "facts."

A school mate Hans Hickler (a former CEO) sent me his book called Our Stories Matter.  These are 20 profiles of people whose "soulfulness impacted me and remained with me."

I recommend this book for classrooms.  I want to show students how adults take time to capture memories and share the stories that matter to us.  Hans has served educators by showing that adults other than writers and teachers (who both write for a living) can take time to capture thoughts and memories.  He took time to give value to his thoughts. 

 
The book was produced at McNally Jackson in New York.  

The process of writing a book takes time.  I like the phrase that Hans uses in the cover letter that he sent with the book.  He wrote that the book is part of his journey to create "the awareness that people need to lead with passion, strength and transparency."

Resources at Dan Pink's website http://www.danpink.com/resources/

You could be using Dan Pink's materials.   suggestion:  look at www.danpink.com

http://www.danpink.com/resources/   I find this page of resources VERY VALUABLE

Oprah Winfrey gave this book to every graduate of Stanford University in 2005. What is the name of that book?

This is a similar post that I've made in the past to recommend the work of Daniel Pink.

You can get the full article here


Here are some excerpts from the Oprah SPIRIT interview:

Oprah Winfrey gave this book to 4500 students at Stanford University.

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Oprah-Talks-to-Daniel-Pink

Your left brain is logical, linear, by-the-numbers; the right side is creative, artistic, empathetic. Oprah talks with Daniel Pink about his groundbreaking book, A Whole New Mind, and explores how right-brain thinkers are wired for 21st-century success. The best part: Anyone can tap into the right mind-set.

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, by business and technology writer Daniel Pink. Daniel, a former chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, presents a convincing argument that our country is entering a new era—the so-called conceptual age—during which right-brained skills such as design and storytelling will become far more crucial than traditionally left-brained skills such as accounting and computer programming. While the latter skills are readily outsourced, transformative abilities such as empathy and creativity are crucial in a new age "animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life," he writes.

Because I've always been a right-brain kind of person—more of an inventive and empathetic storyteller than a linear, logical number cruncher—this book really spoke to me. Now, you know what happens when something new excites me: I want to share it with as many people as I can.

Last June I was invited to Stanford University to give the commencement address (my goddaughter Kirby was among the graduates). After finishing Daniel's book, I ordered 4,500 copies, one for each student in Stanford's class of 2008. I wanted to present them (along with another of my favorites, Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth) as graduation presents. For four days straight, a team of people tied ribbons around the books, which were waiting on their chairs.

I recently interviewed Daniel for my Soul Series show on Sirius XM Radio. When we sat down in the studio in Chicago, I told him the story of my ribbon assembly line. "That's the kind of work we typically try to outsource!" Daniel joked. In A Whole New Mind, he explains that one of the trademarks of the Conceptual Age is the outsourcing of traditional white-collar jobs such as law, accounting, and engineering to less-expensive overseas workers, particularly in Asia. But as he points out, you can't outsource creativity.

Feel left out? Fear not, Daniel says: He has identified six right-brain-associated aptitudes that he believes anyone can develop, and tells us how we can use these skills not only to stay competitive in the workplace but to improve our lives and our world.

Oprah: Let's start with the bold statement you make on the cover of your book: Why will right-brainers rule the future? 

Daniel: In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields. 

Oprah: Does this mean that left-brainers are going to be out of work? 

Daniel: Not necessarily—but it does mean that people like me have some work to do. I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense. 

Oprah: You write that after living through the agricultural, industrial, and information ages, we've entered the conceptual age, in which creators and empathizers will lead. How have what you call the three As—abundance, automation, and Asia—ushered in this new era? 

Daniel: In the same way that machines have replaced our bodies in certain kinds of jobs, software is replacing our left brains by doing sequential, logical work. And that brings us to Asia, to where that work is being shipped. In Asia you have tens of millions of people who can do routine tasks like write computer code. Routine is work you can reduce to a spreadsheet, to a script, to a formula, to a series of steps that has the right answer. 

Oprah: So you suggest that right-brain aptitudes, when complemented with left-directed thinking, can result in a whole new mind. Because we've entered a conceptual age, where meaning and harmony, design and purpose are going to be more significant to the world than formulaic thinking and activities. After I read your book, I thought, 'This is my time.'

Daniel: That's how a lot of people have responded: that the world has come to them. In this country, the "smart" people have these logical, linear abilities, while right-brain people are often seen as flighty, spacey, artsy-fartsy.

Oprah: They're viewed as being "woo-woo." 

Daniel: Yes, exactly! I'm not much of a woo-woo guy, so when I used my left brain to look at the facts, it became clear that the scales are tilting. My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate. Ultimately, here's what is heartening: The right brain is finally being taken seriously. The Dalai Lama is doing joint projects with neuroscientists. People like Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor  [the Harvard-trained brain researcher who chronicled her stroke in the book My Stroke of Insight], who have incredible street cred in neuroscience, are offering their stories. 

Oprah: So what advice do you give kids who are in school? 
Daniel: Ultimately, it's about following your intrinsic motivation. What are you here to do? What are you uniquely good at? 


Oprah: You've said that the new master of business administration is the master of fine arts. 

Daniel: After that statement, I'm sure I'll never get invited to speak at a business school! Here's the point: Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.

Oprah: You've said that abundance changes the way we see material goods. We no longer just want to have things; we want cool things. We want well-designed things. We want things with meaning. 

Daniel: Absolutely. Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them. Because in a world of abundance, our new job is to give people something they didn't know they were missing. What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy. 
Oprah: Let's talk about a right-brain ability you think we should all develop. 

Daniel: I'd say "design." Design is the ability to create something that has significance as well as usefulness. Even hospitals are bringing in designers to redo waiting rooms. A young designer in New York re-created the prescription bottle because she noticed that her grandparents were getting their medications confused. She put the medicine's name in large type at the top instead of the doctor's name, and Grandpa gets a green band on his medicine bottle and Grandma gets a yellow band so they can see the difference more clearly. That's an example of how design can literally save lives.

Oprah: How do we begin to create more design in our lives? 

Daniel: Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision. The type of lid you put on the cup of coffee you bought this morning was a design decision. So were the shoes you're wearing. 

Oprah: Before reading your book, I'd always thought of design in terms of fashion. But then I started noticing the plates that I chose for my home, the kinds of kitchen counters, the knobs, the cabinets, all were about the design. 

Daniel: I'm not trying to turn everyone into star designers. I'm trying to help people become more literate about design.

Oprah: Another right-brained skill you talk about is "story." 

Daniel: We live in a world where facts are everywhere. If we wanted to know the gross domestic product of Ecuador, my kids could find that online in 15 seconds. What matters more now is the ability to put facts into context and deliver them with emotional impact. And that's what a story does. We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions; when your spouse asks, "How was your day?" you don't whip out a PowerPoint presentation and a pie chart. Instead, you narrate: "First, this happened, and you'll never believe what happened after that...," and so on. In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story. Companies are now using a product's backstory as a way to differentiate items in a crowded marketplace. 

Oprah: Of course, I have a great affection for story because I make my living telling others' stories. Story is a way to build connection. 

Daniel: Amen. That's why business schools are slowly starting to recognize the power of narrative—if you want to lead an organization, you have to be effective in creating a compelling vision with a beginning, a middle, and an end. 

Oprah: Tell me about the skill you call "symphony." 

Daniel: Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. It's a signature ability that is a great predictor of star performance in the workplace. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw. The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space—something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things; now I view the world in a much more holistic, symphonic way.

Oprah: What about the right-brain ability you mention in your book, "play"? I've got to get better at play. 

Daniel: Me too. One aspect of play is the importance of laughter, which has physiological and psychological benefits. Did you know that there are thousands of laughter clubs around the world? People get together and laugh for no reason at all! 

Oprah: Isn't it kind of pitiful? You don't have anything really to laugh about so you go to a club, you have a meeting to laugh? 

Daniel: That's what I used to think, too. And so I went to a laughter club in Mumbai. It was 6:30 in the morning, on a muddy soccer field. About 40 people gathered around a woman, who said, "Ho-ho-ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ha-ha-ha." Everyone repeated after her. And I sat there thinking, 'This is the freakiest thing I've ever seen.' 

Oprah: "Ho-ho-ha-ha-ha"? 

Daniel: I realized that it's not about laughing at a joke; it's about the physicality of laughing. It's laughter yoga, or a kind of meditation. Even as the left brain is thinking, 'What the heck are you doing?' the right brain says, 'Be quiet—this is cool.' So I started doing it.

Oprah: It's nearly impossible to say "ho-ho-ha-ha-ha" and not at least smile! Let's move on to another right-brain skill you mention in your book: "empathy." 

Daniel: Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate but it makes the world a better place.

Oprah: Yes. And finally, there's the capacity you call "meaning." Isn't meaning the common denominator of human experience? Over the years while doing my show, I've learned that we all want to be validated, to know that what we say matters, that it means something. We all want to feel as if our lives have been significant and purposeful. 

Daniel: This is why I think baby boomers are going to do something quite spectacular. They say, "Sixty's not old. Oh, I've got 25 years left." Then they look back 25 years and say, "Holy smokes, that sure happened fast. Are the next 25 years going to happen as fast? And if they are, what's my legacy going to be? When am I going to live my best life? What kind of imprint am I going to leave on the world?" Roughly 100 baby boomers turn 60 every 18 minutes in this country. Imagine the collective force of that. So I think that this widespread search for meaning is one of the most important things going on in American life today. 

Oprah: Do you believe that we all have souls? 

Daniel: Sure. 

Oprah: So does the soul live in the right brain? 

Daniel: I'll answer with my left brain: There's scientific evidence that shows that it does. There are experiments during which scientists have quieted the left brain that have allowed a person to have ecstatic or divine experiences. 

Oprah: So does this mean that if you're left-brain oriented, you're less spiritual? 

Daniel: Not necessarily. Right-brain abilities are fundamentally human abilities. Some of us exercise these muscles repeatedly over our lives; others don't use them at all. Regardless, it's encoded into our DNA to wonder what life is about. 

Oprah: To sum up: The keys to the kingdom are changing, and right-brainers will be our new leaders. Is the kingdom itself changing? 

Daniel: Yes. The kingdom changes based on who's holding the keys. In our world now, those with right-brain skills will flourish. That doesn't mean computer programmers are going to be scrubbing counters at fast food restaurants, but it does mean that those programmers have to understand their customers better, look at the different parts of their business in a symphonic way, have a design sensibility, and speak in story terms about what they're doing. 

Oprah: How does the integration of meaning help us rule this new kingdom? 

Daniel: Everything big begins with a conversation. Those assembling the conversation are the ones who shape our experiences. One conversation turns into another and another. That contagious conversation is what changes the world.

Oprah: Is that why you wrote this book—to start a conversation? 

Daniel: Yes. In our hyperconnected world, authors get the first word—but they definitely don't get the last one. For me, a great day is when I get an e-mail from someone who says, "I've never felt like I was taken seriously, but after reading this, I think I'll be all right." And in the book, there's an exercise in which I ask the reader to picture himself or herself at age 90—what are your regrets? What did you do right? One of my favorite responses came from a reader who wrote, "Dear Mr. Pink, I enjoyed A Whole New Mind, but I have to take issue with the picture-yourself-at-90 exercise—you see, I'm 91."

Oprah: Daniel, what do you know for sure? 

Daniel: These right-brain abilities are more than a way to get ahead in today's economy. They're part of what it means to be human. Everybody has the capacity to develop them. And if we encourage people to tap the right side of their brains, we have the potential to transform our world—to make ourselves not just better off but just plain better.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Oprah-Talks-to-Daniel-Pink/7#ixzz2aVj4mNTT

Video 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpq5fC9vHqE   Oprah talks with dan pink 

Video 2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRfT8ujRfOA

Good design is “giving the world something it didn’t know it was missing”  - Paola Antonelli

Dan Pink's Three Exercises for the NEW ABCs of selling... Teachers can share this information with their students

The more I read Dan Pink's books, the more I see how my students could benefit from this information.

The ABCs of selling have been updated....  Here's what Dan Pink writes about in a newsletter:


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The point about CLARITY is highlighted at the bottom of this post.


Here's what Dan Pink recommends:


Here are

three of Pink's favorite exercises, ... Attunement: "Pull Up a Chair" -- a simple strategy that Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos uses to stay attuned to his customers. Buoyancy: "Send Yourself a Rejection Letter" -- a fun way to prepare yourself for negative encounters  Clarity: "Find the 1 percent" -- featuring the single best lesson from law school. All the exercises are here.  Take a look.

Click here and learn
about BrainPickings.org

Let's learn more about the power of curating.

Suggestion:  Click on YourNetImpact.com  and use the "Power of One Click" to bring attention to something useful.

BrainPickings.org is one of my favorite sites for curated (collected, sifted, selected) items.

A checklist for a principal: What recent books have influenced your school's procedures?

An interview is an opportunity for me to learn more about your school.

Are you open to using these procedures?

projects portfolios

digital portfolios                           team teaching

cross-discipline planning (one project for several classes)

The flipped classroom (lectures on video, class time for discussion and elaboration of the themes in the lectures)

controlled / limited / careful use of social media for academic purposes

smart use of the Internet

Do you have teachers who used to be in business or other professions?             

Penpals with other schools

peer mentoring by teachers (Finnish style "open door" observation)

internships and mentors (links with community for mentoring and volunteers)

after school hours?   The "community school"        

Are your students asked to help keep the school clean and organized?  (some schools have extra brooms available to sweep and dust the classrooms)

Do any of these authors inform your procedures?

Malcolm Gladwell  10,000 hours (Outliers)

Blink

Dan Pink:   Drive (autonomy, mastery, purpose, Fedex day)

To Sell is Human (the new elevator pitch)

A Whole New Mind (Conceptual age, Automation, Asia, Abundance)

Thomas Friedman The World is Flat

Seth Godin  Purple Cow

Let's clean our school

Students serve the food

It's lunchtime

Food is cooked in a central kitchen and delivered to schools.
The students distribute the food, plates and silverware

Add caption

time to eat

clean the dishes

recycling

brush teeth after lunch

Kids rate their own performance

slippers when you go into the restroom (so the germs in the restroom
stay on the soles of the shared slippers) ... It's better to share slippers
than to bring the germs from the restroom into the rest of the school

Put on slippers to walk around the inside of the school

The community school -- open from 7 am to ??

The Learning Organization (Peter Senge) and Drive (Dan Pink) could transform offices and schools

Click here

What words could go on a wall in your place of work ???

What might push the transformation of your office?

What words could inspire people to work together?

Hmmmm..... 

The Learning Organization (Peter Senge) and Drive, a motiavtion book by Dan Pink.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxOBI_rp54liZHA5N3NUMjNUWGc/edit?usp=sharing

This is a link for sharing a document that covers two books:

The summaries total 4 pages.


Where can you get four pages that might alter how your organization (school, company, whatever) works?

The first page could transform an organization if the lists were turned into posters.  In fact, here they are:

Download these two posters

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxOBI_rp54liXzRfWkstZVpXMU0/edit?usp=sharing

PDF POSTER 

What books could stimulate teachers to become "guides on the side"? What are the ideas that students need to wrestle with for the 21st Century? Let's put these books into our classrooms.

The Littky Book

Have a look at this discussion...
What books could inspire students to ask questions?
Dr. Fischler's book on the web:  Transform-Education.com
What books and questions could inspire teachers to move away from lectures and toward becoming "guides on the side"?


Dan Pink  Free Agent Nation,
A Whole New Mind
Drive
To Sell is Human

Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point
Blink
Outliers

Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
Hot Flat and Crowded

Neil Postman   Teaching as a Subversive Activity

This book is an example

Books

Brainsmart.org has excellent materials for engaging students... and the tips help their "metacognition" (they will observe better how they think).

PencilsDown.blogspot.com

Postman and Weingartner

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4mmHQzklrA



Websites to inspire teachers

ASCD.org, publishers of The Big Picture:  Education Is Everybody’s Business (2004) by Dennis Littky and Samantha Grabelle, ISBN 978-0871209719

EdReform.com, Center for Education Reform

EdReformer.com, Tom vander Ark’s blog

edSpresso.com, newsletter, served hot with a twist

emaginos.com, Jack Taub’s site

RevLearning.com, vander Ark’s investment group

EssentialSchools.org, Coalition of Essential Schools, formed by the late Ted Sizer

GatesFoundation.org, funding for education reform

GuideontheSide.com, Steve McCrea, teacher training workshops

PZ.harvard.edu, Project Zero, Harvard University, teacher training

QBESchool.com, Will Sutherland, innovative curricula

QualifiedByExperience.com, Sutherland's consulting site

Cofradiaschool.com, Ben Udy's English school in Honduras (using John Corlette's educational philosophy, JohnCorlette.com)

Look at this video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4mmHQzklrA&feature=youtu.be

StudentsFirst.org, Michelle Rhee (former superintendent of Washington, DC schools)

theLearningWeb.net, Gordon Dryden, New Zealand, author of The Learning Web with Jeannette Vos: How to quit school at 14 and eventually write a top-selling book about learning.

JohnCorlette.com for some philosophy of education

TheStudentIstheClass.com, Dr. Abraham Fischler

2mminutes.com, Two Million Minutes, Robert A. Compton’s project

WhatDoYaKNow.com, Dennis Yuzenas, master teacher and trainer, developer of workshops integrating digital portfolios

Let's look at this blog

Videos

Youtube.com/QBESchool

TED Talks

CAPTCHA  for Language Learning   

Maria Andersen   Learn this button

Maria Andersen  Free Range Learning

Ken Creativity and Schools Robinson

Youtube.com/channelname

YouTube.com/BPLearning by BigPicture.org

YouTube.com/HTHvideo    

YouTube.com/QBESchool   or go towww.QBESchools.com

YouTube.com/AGuideOntheSide

YouTube.com/VisualandActive

YouTube.com/2MillionMinutes 

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   4 emotionally intelligent signs from the road | Daniel Pink

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   Aug 16, 2012 – As I mentioned in the last post, summer is a great time for emotionally intelligent signs. One reason is that more people are traveling, camera ...
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   4 diverse emotionally intelligent signs | Daniel Pink

   www.danpink.com/2011/11/3-diverse-emotionally-intelligent-signs‎
   

   
   

   Nov 2, 2011 – Each week PinkBlog readers send us lots of examples of emotionally intelligent signage they've spotted in their communities. Here are four ...
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   4 emotionally intelligent (and psychologically ... - Dan Pink

   www.danpink.com/.../4-emotionally-intelligent-and-psychologically-sop...‎
   

   
   

   Jul 30, 2012 – Summers always bring a bountiful harvest of emotionally intelligent signs -- and the steamy summer of 2012 has been no exception. Over the ...
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   Textbook example of emotionally intelligent signage | Daniel Pink

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   Apr 13, 2012 – I've seen a couple recently that probably aren't emotionally intelligent, but they do seem to work: school zone signs with a reminder that fines ...
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   Emotionally intelligent signage in action | Daniel Pink

   www.danpink.com/2008/11/emotionally-intelligent-signage-in-action‎
   

   
   

   Nov 9, 2008 – Browse Similar Posts: Emotionally intelligent signage ... Currie sends this photo of an emotionally intelligent sign, which he snapped at Toronto ...
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   3 more emotionally intelligent ways to keep streets safe | Daniel Pink

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   May 16, 2012 – As always, the mailbag of emotionally intelligent signage is brimming with ... A homemade sign from a tough-minded (but not litigious) parent: ...
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   Emotionally intelligent signage amid the meatballs | Daniel Pink

   www.danpink.com/.../emotionally-intelligent-signage-amid-the-meatballs‎
   

   
   

   Jun 18, 2012 – Browse Similar Posts: Emotionally intelligent signage ... a nice place to have a coffee and do some writing), I've seen that sign several times.

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