A sobering reminder of how quickly life can change on the road The aftermath of the accident on Highway 580 Image found by a coworker on Waze Today I was driving to work and was at the right place at the wrong time. As soon as I merged onto 580 going westbound I saw a Range Rover make a very hard left to avoid the car in front of him which caused it to flip...
The Educational Challenge Compliance is simple to measure, simple to test for and simple to teach. Punish non-compliance, reward obedience and repeat. Initiative is very difficult to teach to 28 students in a quiet classroom. It's difficult to brag about in a school board meeting. And it's a huge pain in the neck to do reliably. Schools like teaching compliance. They're pretty good at it. To top it off, until recently the customers of a...
A Parent's Plea: Please Don't Help My Kids On Letting Children Learn Through Challenges One parent's plea to the other parents at the playground: please don't help my kids. Join the Conversation What's your approach to helping children develop independence? Share your thoughts and experiences on balancing safety with freedom.
How rejecting conformity can transform your work from ordinary to extraordinary Mini Cooper's "Not Normal" campaign celebrates the power of breaking free from convention Last week, during a meeting about our 2013 initiatives, I found myself expressing frustration with the tendency to do things "the way they've always been done." This led me to share a Mini Cooper advertisement I'd recently discovered—a video that has since become something of an inspiration for our team. In...
The remarkable physics teacher whose personal journey teaches students the true meaning of life Jeffrey Wright uses wacky experiments to teach children about the universe, but it is his own personal story that teaches them the true meaning of life In the halls of Louisville Male Traditional High School in Kentucky, physics teacher Jeffrey Wright has earned a reputation for his spectacular classroom demonstrations—exploding pumpkins, hovercrafts, and a particularly memorable experiment involving a bed of...
Sagmeister is a creative genius! His work has personally inspired me to create more often. Sagmeister's Visual Wisdom What makes Sagmeister's approach so compelling is how he transforms personal insights into public art. His book "Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far" is itself a work of art—consisting of 15 separate booklets housed in a die-cut slipcase that forms his face when arranged properly. Each booklet documents a different life lesson, brought to...