SPRING 2016
Many people associate Spring with the advent of new growth that we can see and smell. In the southern hemisphere, not so, as it’s autumn there and the amount of daylight is decreasing. While some spend more time inside than outside in the winter, we are now glad to be outside again, except of course
0MORE TIME, MORE CHOICES
I have often mused on the meaning of time, how we regard it, use it as if it were a commodity, even talk about how we spend it. One reason the concept of time interests me is that I regard the sun, moon and stars as better keepers of time than we are and I
0LIVING INTENSELY: A MEASURE OF DAYS, PART II
“I was astonished to find how intensely one lives in one’s eighties. The last years seemed a culmination and by concentrating on them one became truly oneself. Though old, I felt full of potential life. It pulsed in me even as I was conscious of shrinking into a final form which it was my task
0A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE – Taking a measure of days
Looking ahead to the start of my 80th year in a few months. I am enormously grateful just to do that. I am healthy for the most part, still active physically and mentally, as far as I know, and I am enjoying wonderful opportunities for work and play, days of re-creation. My days begin
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MAKING A CASE FOR THE BRIDGE YEAR
Most educators, and parents, know about the concept and practice of a gap year. Often that year is taken between high school and college but not necessarily then. It could be a junior or senior year abroad in either high school or college or it could be between the freshman and sophomore year of college.
0LIFE LESSON FROM DAD
I was probably nine or ten years old and my parents had dragged me off to church as they usually did on Sunday mornings. After an hour in what was called Sunday School, singing, learning Bible verses, and going off to class with a small group of other kids my same age, we were invited
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GENIUS IN DESIGN, ENGINEERING and CONSTRUCTION
I watched two garden spiders, connected by the same web, work their magic. I sat there in amazement as they worked to restore and expand their web, eat or store a few insects along the way that had signaled their arrival and entrapment. You have no doubt seen a spider scamper across a few strands
0THREE BIG CHALLENGES IN TEAM LEADERSHIP
When these conditions are present to any significant degree, you and your team will definitely be blocked from being effective and productive. These three obstacles are closely related through a common factor that, if dealt with separately, could resolve all three. That common factor is FEAR. Patrick Lencioni and Kensuke Okabayashi only use the word
0A NEW SCHOOL MODEL: The Teaching Hospital
I am indebted to the Knight Foundation and Eric Newton for their presentation in November, 2013, to a group of Dutch journalists in Amsterdam. The content regarding K-12 schools is mine and I take responsibility for any mistakes, misunderstanding or errors in laying out a design for these kinds of schools* Gary R. Gruber, Ph.D.
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