Do and be International Baccalaureate (IB)

Don’t get me wrong I think that the idea behind an IB education is grand. Hey my own children have gone through an IB program at the PYP level! In fact last night at Uptown School the grade 5s did a fantastic Exhibition with acting, dancing and the whole 9 yards to really demonstrate what [...]

The power of youth!

The single greatest problem today is not listening to our youth! Why is that an issue? We professors, we bureaucrats, we parents, we …. are truly bankrupt of creative ideas. What we do have is a means to implement ideas but what we lack are ideas, new innovative,creative ideas. Look at Greece! How do they [...]

Education/tribes at work?

My greatest concern about education has always been that is is disconnected from the reality we live in. What if we could take the essence of education, the essence of Tribes by Seth Godin and the best of Re-Imagine by Tome Peters and mix it all up? Nadeem Suleiman a 15 year old student at [...]