Letting Students Lead
Students are leading collaboration and change at South San Francisco High School with Action Collabs.
Big Ideas Fest – The Action Collab Facilitator Perspective
Big Ideas Impacting Teaching and Learning
I recently had an opportunity to catch up with a member of our BIFnik community, Chula Vista High Tech High Director, Lillian Hsu. Lillian attended Big Ideas Fest in 2014 along with three teachers from her school. Lillian and her teachers utilized their time at Big Ideas Fest to create a solution to a challenge they were grappling with around their sophomore year schedule and they are implementing it now with much success.
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Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv
We’ve built in “improv”–the improvisational method of achieving cooperation–into the DNA of Action Collabs that we offer at ISKME. Most recently, a writer from San Francisco’s KQED Mind/Shift called out our use of improv at our annual Big Ideas Fest.
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Surf Lessons for Educational Innovators
Nothing truly innovative, nothing that has advanced art, business, design, or humanity, was ever created in the face of genuine certainty or perfect information. Because the only way to be certain before you begin is if the thing you seek to do has already been done.
– Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance