[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

Todd Sattersten, CEO of 800CEORead, shared 90 minutes with me  about...his book, 100 BEST Business Books of ALL Time: What They Say, Why They Matter and How They Can Help You and authors and the publishing world. Here's some of his thoughts on why you should be an author, the 7 Sales requi...

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] India’s quest to create a $10 laptop is getting a lot of press this week. Fast Company notes that the proposed design will have 2 GB of RAM, wired Ethernet, and Wi-Fi and probably will run Linux. The laptop initiative is part of India’s National Missio...

This use to be my ice scraper. It reminds me of where I was without Jesus. It also reminds me of students and families who live life broken - broken relationships, broken friendships - trying to navigate through life with......

I recently read the following statement that made me analyze my perspective on, well, everything:"Every time I wipe a kid's butt, it reminds me of all the dreams that I didn't fulfill."That's one way to look at it.Or, you could......

Although he may not realize it, web developer Tim Knight speaks for the vast majority of the global workforce in a post entitled Stop Leading Your Team to The Destination, Give Them The Map. He eloquently explains why leaders who proclaim their visions and then hoard the details have far less chanc...

As many of you will know I am currently undertaking my Scottish Qualification for Headship (School Principle) . I am now one the final ‘home run’ of the course. In Course One I had to conduct a 360 degree feedback exercise on how I met the some aspects of the Standard for Headship. As I believe ...

By Wes Ball. Wes is a strategic innovation consultant and author of The Alpha Factor – a revolutionary new look at what really creates market dominance and self-sustaining success (Westlyn Publishing, 2008) and writes for Leadership Turn every Tuesday. See all his posts here. Wes can be reached a...

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] A collection of thoughts about P-12 professional development, with a (hopefully) whiz-bang ending… Big idea 1: Most current staff development is awful. We have known for decades what leads to powerful adult learning and what constitutes effective professiona...

Andrew said: It often seems like my school's technology curricula are ten or fifteen years behind the curve, probably more, although our technology hard- and soft-ware are utterly up-to-date. the students feel (and are) disempowered, and the administration is uncurious about how to make technology w...