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Changing Times in Education. Bridging Differences. Blog | Multipliers Books from The Wiseman Group | How the best leaders make everyone smarter. By Liz Wiseman This is an excerpt from TIME Magazine and was originally published September 10, 2014. The little guys who were on their way up the mountain now have to fight for air. The wearables market is technology’s latest battleground with small upstarts like Pebble and Omate, as well as early entrances from big players like LG, Samsung, and Google.

Today, with their announcement of the Apple Watch, Tim Cook officially entered the race and upped the ante with Apple Pay. With Apple in the game, can a young, upstart company like Pebble, maker of the popular Pebble Steel … Read the rest By Elise Foster and Liz Wiseman This is an excerpt from AASA.org and was originally published August, 2014. How does a school system leader tap into the latent talent that sits inside the district?

At a time when expectations are rising while funding is plummeting, doing more with less has become standard operating procedure. By Liz Wiseman This is an excerpt from VitalSmarts online magazine “Trainer Talk. Learning in Technicolor | A space to share, reflect, and learn. Will. Granted, and... | thoughts on education by Grant Wiggins. Jennie's Blog | Reflections on learning and leading. Practical Theory | A View From the Schoolhouse. [This year marked the first graduating class of our second campus – SLA@Beeber. I was honored and thrilled to be asked to be the keynote speaker. It’s been such an incredible experience to watch this group of students and families and educators build this school into something wonderful, and I was so excited to share the day with them. — Chris] To the Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber inaugural class – the Class of 2017 – congratulations!

I cannot begin to tell you how much it means to me to be standing in front of you today. What you all have done – what you all have accomplished these past four years – will stand as a tribute to your willingness to build, to take risks, to go on a journey together – for years and years to come. Every student who follows you through the halls of your school will feel the impact of all you have done and all you have built. And you did not do this alone. And still – there were more. What we build may not be perfect – but it can be beautiful. Like this: Bridging Differences.