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thinking out loud about technology, education and life
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- Revisiting “Space Space and More Space”: What a Pandemic-Era Learning Spaces Discussion Still Teaches Us in the AI Age
- Is “rigor” just code for “more harder”?
- VUCA Never Left the Building: RebootED Episode 58 Reminds Us Leadership in 2026 Is Still About Navigating the Unnavigable
- 13 Years Later: Daniel Pink’s Insights on Motivation Are More Relevant Than Ever in the AI Era
- 2012 Vision Still Holds: Redefining Public Education in the Age of AI and Perpetual Change
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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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…and it’s been an emotionally taxing week. I started a new job. While getting to know the new folks I carried around the feeling that I’d abandoned my East Side team in the field, surrounded and outnumbered. I tried on my new office and found sitting with my back to the door to be less…
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I feel like I’ve been living under a big dark cloud these past few months and now the sun is finally starting to break through. Amazing how much of an impact environment can have and how powerful a little reflection time can be. I almost feel like my old sarcastic, envelope pushing, question asking, 1:1…
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Read this article yesterday and this part jumped out at me: As academic and Phi Delta Kappan columnist Ben Levin pointed out in a paper in 2010: “Schools embody an industrial model of organization in a postindustrial world, and an authoritarian and hierarchical character in a world where networks and negotiations are increasingly prevalent.” Then I got…
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To East Side People Whom It May Concern; First off, to those of you from the East Side community, thanks for taking the time to find this blog and sorry I didn’t have more of an opportunity to get to know you. Since the Technology Status Report is apparently out in the open and some…
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Ok, always good to start off recognizing teachers with rounds of applause from the parents. And following up with student Art exhibit announcements. Cool. Monday the Superintendent is coming down to discuss the Principal position for next year. Apparently they have an interim mid year replacement right now. Might have to go to that. Now,…
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I’m attending my oldest daughter’s school open house at the moment. I think you can tell a lot from how these things are setup and run. So far it is a bit disorganized but there is good turn out. Why is it that parents seem so involved with their kids in elementary grades but then…
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I came across this Lifehacker article “How to survive the 10 grueling levels of office hell” and realized that I had experienced most of them in one way or another during my vast and varied careers. I thought I would share so here goes. 10. I don’t mind eating at my desk and my wife packs great…
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Today was my last day at East Side. The hardest part about today was leaving my team behind. I have watched them come alive these past few months. They are moving forward in the right direction and I know they will continue being dedicated professionals in my absence. I myself did very little to get…
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One of my favorite movies is Heartbreak Ridge. Today I was reminded of a scene at the end, after Gunny Highway and his men have saved the day, where Major Powers finally gets what’s coming to him: Highway: We’re Marines, sir. We’re paid to adapt, to improvise. Lieutenant M.R. Ring: Sir, I gave the order to take…
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