Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
I’m writing this weekend from the New Pathways Design Challenge meeting, an add-on meeting to the National Writing Project’s Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C. It’s the third stool to the Building New Pathways work I’m involved in with the NWP, where I’m co-facilitating a team thinking hard about micro credentials that might be useful for […]
Read More New Pathways to Leadership – A Design Challenge within the NWPI’m working this week from Austin, Texas, where I’m at the Building New Pathways event with the National Writing Project. One of my more interesting consulting projects right now is working on this project, a deep dive into how we build and sustain new pathways for leadership development in the local sites, and the national […]
Read More Me, #nwpleads, and 2 Metaphors for NWP LeadershipEarlier this evening, I had a conversation with a colleague who is thinking hard, very hard, about how to teach and perpetuate SEL ((That’s Social Emotional Learning, of course. )) principles in classrooms in deep and meaningful ways for children. We ended up talking because I pushed a bit to ask that, as she creates resources […]
Read More On Agency, and #whyIwriteOn a conference call today. Heard that some of the participants on a project I’m working on are waiting to see what the entire scope of the project needs to look like before they jump in and try something new in their classrooms. The problem is, that we’ve recruited these participants for this project because […]
Read More If You Never Try to Be Brave, It Certainly Won’t HappenThe other day, I pulled up to a fast-food joint, trying to grab a quick bite. ((Okay. It was a Sonic. I really, really like breakfast burritos, and I can get one there pretty much any hour of the day. Eggs and bacon is the “fast food” I eat these days.)) I ordered the value […]
Read More “The System Won’t Let Me”Last month, I had the privilege of giving the keynote address for The Future Ready Summit in Denver. Ben recorded the audio, and was kind enough to share it with me. So I’m sharing it with you. Direct Link to Audio http://budtheteacher.com/podcasts/budtheteacher/BudHuntKeynoteFutureReadyDenverJune2015.mp3 Not sure if it’ll translate without the visuals – so the slides are […]
Read More The Podcast: Future Ready?Earlier this week, I had the honor of giving a talk in the CSU Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life speaker series. With my time, shared below, I talked about some of our work around professional learning and agency, as well as some of my thinking on the essential actions/literacies/habits that should be in our schools. […]
Read More Let’s Hack School: A Recent Talk at CSUEarlier today, I sat in on a meeting of the St. Vrain Blended Libraries Action Research Group. That’s a big name, but the group is a group of teacher librarians, school and district folks, and administrators who are rethinking the role of the library in our 21st Century schools. They’re standing up an action research […]
Read More Here I Go AgainThe title of this post will likely bug some folks because it’s a fairly obvious statement. Except I see plenty of teachers, well-meaning and kind-hearted every one, requiring students to post work they do in class online. Without exception or choice in the matter. They require this work to be posted publicly for a number […]
Read More If Public Isn’t an Option, Then It Isn’t a ChoiceOne of the really difficult things about giving students meaningful choices is that they will sometimes make horrible ones. This isn’t a school problem, so much, as it is a democracy problem. And I’ve met plenty of people who don’t feel that all adults are able to make good choices, either. People don’t always make […]
Read More Allowing (And Accepting) Students' Choices Is Hard