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Recently I listened to a "Start with Why" podcast entitled It's Not About the Coffee! Finding Clarity of Why .  In this episode the two host talk to Lori Collins about her experience of getting to the "Why" of her business of coffee roasting.  When she gets down to her real passion and why she does what she does in this statement, "I really want to serve through love, that people feel wanted, cared about, and loved" you know her "why".  I wanted to go and stay at her hostel (which I don't think exists) and drink coffee all day. Have you ever met someone that just oozes out their why or passion that you want to drop everything that you are doing and join them and their cause?  Earlier this year I had an opportunity to attend the Innovate Conference at the Graded school here in São Paulo.  At the conference I attended a session called "blue sky schools" lead by Dan Kerr (I happen to have worked at the same school as Dan p...

Right to Left Thinking This is a concept I’m most interested in and feel like I have the most connection with.  I have often given the advice to graduating students, figure out what you want to do, or where you want to be, commit yourself to it, and then figure out how you’re going to accomplish it.  I’ve found that jumping into the deep end (hence the name of my ed tech blog ) is sometimes the best way to learn how to swim.  It’s the “Declared Future” idea. Kennedy said “We WILL put a man on the moon by the end of the decade”

I do this to be inspired by and inspire others to transform education through communication, care, and the belief that every student deserves to dream big and the opportunities to explore those dreams. I believe that there is a better way of educating the people of this world.  I think I chose this Masters program because of this belief.  Up until this point I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t want to do my masters in administration through a traditional state university, I grew up 5 minutes away from one the top ranked ones in the US, Michigan State University.  What I realize now is that I knew that, however acclaimed the school was, they were going to teach me how to run a school, efficiently yes, productively yes, but in an innovative, no.  I would become knowledgeable about the factory, industrial model of education that we have been utilizing for 100+ years. I believe it is important to look forward to where we want education to go, how l...