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Each shift, no matter how trivial it might seem in the moment, contributes to the growing tension. Over time, tension accumulates, and ultimately it shifts patterns at every level of the human system. Like an avalanche, a lifetime of love, or a violent society, every whole-scale transformation emerges from the many tiny ones that came before.
Teaching & LearningCollaborate to Create Community
What constitutes a generative ecology for deep learning? In this blog, Royce talks about how school leaders at all scales can set conditions for deep learning ecologies.
Collaborate to Create Community
October 6, 2016
Collaboration is easy to talk about—almost everyone does—but it is not so easy to do. Internally and externally, all groups sing the praises of collaboration. They see the potential to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Sadly, lived reality is often different. Resources and hopes are invested, and the shared effort falls short. Learn how to see, understand, and influence the conditions so shape successful collaborations in your team, organization, or community.
Those of us who make our livings as teachers don’t like to admit it, but that is how most complex skills are developed—in real-world practice.
Inquiry is a key adaptive capacity. When answers are few, questions are your wisest path forward. But, not all questions are created equal. We
have found six questions that help you see, understand, and prepare to influence patterns in chaos.
Your most challenging and interesting problems have never been solved before. They are “wicked” problems because they cannot be solved at all. These problems are the special territory of human systems dynamics. Our models and methods work well on tame issues, but they also help with the most wicked ones. HSD was created to help you see, understand, and influence problems that are impossible to solve. Magic 21 holds the key to seeing, understanding, and influencing intractable issues.
I count this time of year as a special kind of “new year” that opens possibility for my life-long adventure of learning. Maybe it’s because teaching is in my blood—both parents, a grandmother, and three sisters involved in education and schooling. Maybe it’s because I have spent over 40 years in the annual cycle of public schools. Whatever the reason, this time of the year holds a special appeal to me. Children return to school as teachers prepare for the next months of exploration and learning.
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