Leading Learning
The Community for Learning Leaders
The traditional long summer break from school in the U.S. can mean fun in the sun—and summer learning loss (SLL). While SLL is a documented phenomenon, not all K-12 students lose the same skills and knowledge over the summer. In fact, some make gains over the summer holiday. One of the most important things students …
For our fourth and final Emphatically Recommended Reading™, we turn to leadership—an area of primary importance to the Leading Learning Symposium—and John Kotter’s classic Leading Change. The book was originally published in 1996, but what Kotter offers remains relevant. He remarks early on in Leading Change: The change problem inside organizations would become less worrisome …
For our third Emphatically Recommended Reading™, we wanted to pick something that reflects the marketing focus of the symposium. But this was a challenging task. There has been so much insightful, useful thinking about marketing over the past few decades that narrowing down to a single resource seems impossible. Should we pick something by Seth Godin, …
As discussed in an earlier post, we are providing a short list of Emphatically Recommended Readings™ that we hope all Leading Learning Symposium participants will read in advance of attending the event. The idea behind these readings is to establish common points of reference and baseline knowledge that will help enhance the symposium experience for …
With this post, we offer a brief video to introduce the first of our Emphatically Recommended Readings™ – which is …. … drum roll (scroll down) … Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning We think Make It Stick is one of the best books available for summing up the most important research on how we …
One of the perennial challenges of any learning event or ongoing learning community is that the people who participate vary widely in their levels of prior knowledge about whatever topics the experience proposes to address. This prior knowledge gap can be sizable even when participants come from similar industries and job roles. After all, factors like …
Our fourth (and final pre-symposium) Emphatically Recommended Reading™ ties to technology thread of the symposium. As with the other Emphatically Recommended Readings, it was challenging to make a pick, knowing there are lots of great options, but we have settled on one for the last recommendation we’ll share before the symposium–and you’ll be glad to …
