CTOnetwork

In Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," a character is asked, "How did you go bankrupt?" He answers, "Gradually, then suddenly."

Careers and companies succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

What gets talked about in a company and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won't happen. Conversations provide clarity or confusion.

With the globalization of the economy, with the ability of workers anywhere in the world to fill even sophisticated roles in the current information and knowledge economies, and with 

major segments of traditional work opportunities moving out of Texas and offshore, it is no longer sufficient to benchmark locally or even nationally our schools and the learners who successfully 

complete their courses of study here. It is no longer adequate to sprinkle a bit of technology literacy on a traditional curriculum and expect that students are ready for relevant higher education or 

for entry into a highly competitive workforce. And, it is no longer realistic to think that a 21st Century educator can be effective by preparing once, teaching the same thing every year for twenty-five 

or thirty years, and call that a career.

an emerging citizen must be competent ... able to (1)communicate, (2) gather, analyze and use data and information, (3) think critically and solve problems as a part of a team, and (4) operate from a solid social and moral framework as they work and live.

It is that creative and inventive thinking, translated into innovation which makes the worker and leader of tomorrow valuable in our emerging global society.

Why haven’t we put online, putting the best pedagogical practices, instructional content that we say what every kid must learn? Why can’t we provide this for free in 5 years to every child, parent, teacher in the State of Texas?