Tag: Education
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Snowshoe Mountain to Host, Learn From Create WV
(Snowshoe, W.Va.) – As Snowshoe Mountain Resort prepares to host the Create WV Conference, October 20-22, the resort is looking forward to welcoming hundreds of attendees to the mountaintop. But the exposure and visitation is not the only thing exciting Snowshoe’s top executives; the mountain’s leaders are also planning on attending many of the Conference’s…
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Disrupting Class-Chapter 9-Giving Schools the Right Structure to Innovate
“School reformers have repeatedly tried to bash the system and confront it head-on. A major lesson from our studies of innovation is that disruptive innovation does not take root through a direct attack on the existing system. Instead, it must go around and underneath the system. This is how disruption drives affordability, accessibility, capability, and…
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What Do We Want? What Do We Believe?
David and Alex Bennett are hidden treasures for West Virginia in the hills of Pocahontas County. Alex is internationally recognized as a leader in knowledge management and an agent for organizational change, was the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration with the role of Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for the United States Department of…
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Disrupting Class-Chapter 8-Forging A Consensus For Change
Don’t forget, this book is based on a couple of decades worth of research on managing innovation successfully. Specifically, this is a book on how to manage innovation within public education successfully. In Public School Systems, there is little consensus on cause and effect (“which actions will lead to the desired result”) or what they…
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Create WV Conference – Quality of Place Track Sessions
Jeffrey Miller, organizing leader for “Quality of Place” sessions at the 2008 Create WV conference, has announced the line up for this year’s exciting track: Tuesday, October 21 Wednesday, October 22 “The ‘place’ track was one of the highest rated at last year’s conference,” said Miller. “We are very excited about this year’s lineup, which…
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Charleston Catholic Uses Web 2.0 Technology to Open New Communication With Students, Parents
“Oh man! When is that psychology paper due again? I hope it’s not tomorrow!” “I forgot all about that big assignment due in English! I don’t even remember what to do. I am totally going to fail!” “Oh, no, Mom, I don’t have any tests to study for.” These are just a few of the…
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Disrupting Class-Spread the Word
Before I discuss the final two chapters in the book, I wanted to provide you a handout that I am using in all my discussions about the Education Track. This is my “leave behind”, the “how-to”, this is The Other Half of the Strategy. Download this document and read at least the first page and…
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Race, Politics and Stereotypes in WV
The presidents of Marshall University, West Virginia State University and West Virginia Wesleyan College are inviting everyone to a special dialog on race, politics and stereotypes in our state. The event is a response to the media portrayal of West Virginia and the role race played in the Democratic primary in May, and the ongoing…
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Huntington Herald-Dispatch: Standards, Attitudes Hampering Education
From the Huntington Herald-Dispatch: Hari Satya Shankar Addagarla recalls how his academic classload one year while in India included math, chemistry, physics, biology, history, geography, civics and three language courses. That was when Addagarla was a 12-year-old in what would be called a middle school in the United States. The academic classload for a typical…
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Healing Through Creativity
Trauma Survivors and Supporters of Survivors of Trauma are invited to share art, music, writing,poetry and other creative forms at the Healing Through Creativity Festival. When: October 10 -19, 2008Where: West Virginia State University, WV, USA http://www.healingthroughcreativity.org/ We open our hearts to support those who are making their way through the various stages of recovery…