The Critical Skills Classroom

Download the list of some great short "booklets"--what an amazing contribution they were and everyone of them is still relevant--even more so. They need to reread--virtually every one of them.

This app will let you make notes directly on a pdf.

"First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog There's no discounting the importance of the first day of class. What happens that day sets the tone for the rest of the course."

I don't care what her bio says, the author HAD to have gone to AUNE. Great activities for first day of class...OR opening up a meeting, workshop, etc.

"The Future isn't Created. It is Co-Created"

Great lessons for leadership and working with teams.

"Think big and follow these tips to make the most of your next brainstorming session."

Crosswalk b/n NH Frameworks and CCSS

Great resource- the standards rewritten as student I Can statements

Has examples, lessons, lessons learned. Tons of potential here!

Today's teams are not well designed for getting work done in the twenty-first century, argues Professor Amy C. Edmondson . One starting point: learn the skill of teaming.

"...teaming process that includes a deep recognition among individual players of the interdependency of their roles. This recognition leads naturally to early and consistent communication among formerly separate parties throughout their joint work. Once the task is completed, more communication-this time in the form of reflection and feedback-must take place."

"The key to generating truly innovative ideas, he says, is learning how to challenge the status quo-which is why he's busy trying to teach people how to "think wrong'" Important pieces to consider when engaged in our work.

*This* is the piece about what it means to make change from within the system.

An interesting piece about what it is to make radical change from within the system

Really interesting set of linked protocols for organizational planning. "The Collective Action Toolkit isn't a rigid template for problem solving. It's designed to be flexible and accessible, with an action map and activities arranged into six categories, from building a group, to imagining new ideas, to planning change. The toolkit challenges groups to move beyond discussion to action, continually clarifying their shared goals based on what they learn through the problem-solving process."