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Apr 24, 2016

Susie Wise has had multiple incarnations at the d.school – teaching EX-Tools back in the trailer days, launching the K12 Lab in 2007 with the Nueva School Innovation Lab project, and jumpstarting Media Ops and Hootenanny design for the inauguration of Building 550 in 2008–2010. Back again in 2012 she is leading our...


Apr 17, 2016

Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.

  • Save $10,000 on paper because of 1:1
  • Don’t hire substitutes
  • Expectation is...


Apr 10, 2016

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Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.

  • Flex Mod schedule
  • Form of a block schedule. Certain classes that might meet...


Apr 3, 2016

Ken Spero of @edleadershipsim seeks to help leaders develop their decision-making ability by running simulations of realistic situations.

  • Experience is the best teacher
  • What simulations in a box look like.
  • Engage one’s own imagination
  • Experiences of those who go through it.
  • This is an experience to be able to talk...