Teacher Experience by Design
February 19, 2016
"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future." – Peters. Teachers can tell us quite a bit about the type of experiences they want in the...
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Escape the Classroom
February 15, 2016
For my oldest son’s 13th birthday party, my wife arranged for him and his middle school friends to play an interactive game called “Escape the Room” in NYC. ...
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The End of Average
February 10, 2016
The business world and particularly retailers are increasingly moving toward customization and personalization as technology now allows them to offer their customers an array of...
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Matching Talent to Task
January 30, 2016
"Stop focusing on what's left out and bring out what is inside of people." —Phil Olsen Over the years, I've had a chance to take many personality...
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2016: Reasons to be Concerned – and a New Year’s Resolution for Me
January 05, 2016
When we talk about failing schools, most of us are focused on schools in underprivileged communities, or schools that are ranking in the bottom 5% of performance. Parents who...
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Grit and One Young Student’s Story after his Father Passed Away
December 18, 2015
Grit. This has become not just a buzzword in education circles, but somewhat of a rallying cry for public education in America. Our children need more grit. They...
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A Distribution Challenge: Scaling Charter School Innovation and Impact to States and Districts
December 08, 2015
In “Transitional Philanthropy: Leveraging Innovation to Build Sustainability” Jeffrey Walker makes the point that in the for-profit world, venture capitalists...
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Creating a movement to turn around failing public schools – Momentum builds
November 30, 2015
Since founding Matchbook Learning nearly five years ago as a vehicle for spurring change and improvement in failing schools, I have sometimes had the feeling of being alone and...
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