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Category Archives: Leadership
The “challenge zone” and group norms
You may be familiar with the following model of task challenge and learning: Comfort Zone: Tasks are easy and comfortable and pleasant–little learning occurs. Challenge Zone: Tasks are complex enough to push the boundaries of one’s thinking and skills and maintain … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Leadership
Tagged challenge zone, Dialogue, Flow, group dynamics, group norms
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My Philosophy of Education
For one of my courses, students were asked to bring a quick summary of their philosophies of education. Here is (a slightly modified version of) what I wrote. I have lots of opinions about education. I think most emerge from what is … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Leadership, Personal Experiences
Tagged curiosity, education, frustration, philosophy of education
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How I think about conflicts
When thinking about most conflicts, large or small, I find myself mentally organizing people’s responses to the conflict into particular rungs within this ladder (a personal model adapted from the work of the Arbinger Institute, Sustained Dialogue, and other sources)…. … Continue reading
Posted in Convopointer, Leadership, Political thought
Tagged Adaptive Leadership, Anatomy of Peace, conflict, empathy, mandela, MLK, Sustained Dialogue, Ubuntu
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Service and Self-Efficacy
I recently had another post published on City Year’s internal IJ Blog! You need a City Year login to be able to view the original, so the full text is included below. Sorry that there is some City Year jargon … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Leadership, Personal Experiences
Tagged City Year, cynacism, idealism, IJ, PITW, self-efficacy
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To what extent are insights gained through introspection generalizable? (II-PT #1)
This is part 1 in a new series of posts titled Irresolvable Inter-Polar Tension, or “II-PT,” for short. The acronym conveniently looks like “two-part” and can be pronounced in that way. F. Scott Fitzgerald once claimed that “the test of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Experiences
Tagged empathy, human nature, II-PT, introspection, Leadership
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(Positive) Actions Have Consequences (Too!)
When working in a high-needs school (or, I’d guess, any school, for that matter), educators are trained to help students connect actions to consequences: “Well, you chose to make that rude comment in the middle of class to your classmate, … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Leadership
Tagged City Year, education, empowerment, Leadership, middle school, school as prison
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“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing ….”
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. — Mahatma Ghandi Here is a venn diagram that summarizes my thinking about this quote. Imagine another large … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Uncategorized
Tagged Ghandi, graph, most of the world's problem, quote, venn diagram
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Airplanes and objectivity
My most recent flight was at nighttime. I was sitting in a window seat a bit behind the wing. On the rear side of the wing almost at the tip was a very bright flashing light–the light you might see … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Experiences
Tagged airplane, Bertrand Russell, light, observer, philosophy
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City Year (internally) published an essay of mine!
City Year’s national office has published an essay of mine! It is posted on CYconnect, City Year’s internal communication system. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be accessible by non-City Year people. If you do have a CYconnect login, the … Continue reading
Must a leader be (perceived as being) full of certainty in order to be successful?
I read an article by Ron Elving about Paul Ryan’s VP nomination speech at the Republican convention. The piece includes the following: Ryan turns on conservatives with his incandescent devotion to a set of ideas. He is steeped in his … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Political thought
Tagged certainty, election, flip-flopping, paul ryan, politics
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