3D School Leadership - Hillsborough, NC. What to Blog About – 30 More Days of Creative Inspiration for Blogging. One of the most frequent questions people ask me is, “How do you come up with the creative inspiration for what to blog about five days a week?”
My answer is I pay attention all the time for creative inspiration and start to process experiences through a very specific filter: “How could this interaction, story, factoid, image (or whatever it is) fit as a Brainzooming blog post?” When you go through life expecting EVERYTHING to provide creative inspiration for what to blog about, you see potential topics EVERYWHERE. For me, the bigger challenge is finding the time to turn all the creative inspiration into blog content both of us (you and me) would be interested in reading. I’m not a fast writer, and I’ve gotten even slower through distracting myself while writing and incorporating more SEO-oriented steps than when the Brainzooming blog started.
The result is many ideas never make it into completed blog posts, although some will show up even a year or two later. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 5 Components to a Quality Education. Will Richardson asks the question Why School?
In his new book and Seth Godin also asks in this video what is school for? School fills a myriad of roles in our society. However, it is quite simple: Schools are here to educate, yet the process is complex. Here are five components that we have to focus on and use transformatively to educate in the current society: RigorRelevanceCreativityIndividualizationGrit First, rigor is essential to education and preparing students for what lies ahead. Raise the Level of ContentIncrease ComplexityOpen-Ended Questions, Instruction, and Projects Yes, students will push back, but we have to expect them to learn at high levels and they will rise to our expectations; provided that we give support and guidance along the way.
Second, a lesson can be rigorous, but it also needs to be engaging and relevant. Third, creativity is a key ingredient to both the teacher and the learner. The fifth component is grit. The Need for Innovative Leadership. I asked the following question today on Twitter: If the mandate is for innovation, how much should “best practice” drive that?
This question has been stuck in my head from while I have been reading the book, “Humanize“, which has really challenged and pushed my own thinking on “innovation” and how the culture of social media should be a culture that is embedded into our organizations. Here is one of the quotes from the book that started to create that connection: “Almost overnight, it seems, the world has become social, and the work world, too. Markets are conversations. So if we “like it” so much, why are many organizations struggling to import so many of these ideas into their everyday operations?
Organizations and businesses have mechanisms in place to stop progress, to stop themselves from evolving. As a result of an open world, more people are starting to question the “principal” position not only how it is done, but even if the position is need at all. So what now? #Yikes. Sharing. Learning. Leading.