I am participating this weekend in a conference on Learning and the Brain. Actually multi-tasking with my iPad as I listen to lectures that tell us that the human brain was not designed for sitting hours on end to absorb information. We were designed of course to be active hunters and gathers, outside, interacting with our environment. Interesting. Conclusion: schools and classrooms are not the ideal environment for learning. Each day we are discovering more and more informat

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I thought it might be appropriate to reflect on what’s happening in education. In a presentation to a Brazilian delegation on Friday I repeated a general sentiment about how principals in the US are feeling right. The principalship is a pressure cooker. Isn’t it amazing that the CEOs of schools are experiencing extreme pressure right now– that these CEOs have relatively little freedom to innovate, to organize, to lead? In comparison to oth