I’ve been busy preparing an innovative course with Dr. Arthur Harkins and corresponding colleagues at FLACSO México that deals with moving “from information to innovative knowledge.” The course is offered in the Innovation Studies and Liberal Studies programs at the University of Minnesota; and will be offered concurrently by FLACSO México. The course will meet [...]
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How Minneapolis can reinvent itself and thrive
2/3/2007
I’ve been participating on the Minneapolis Public Schools Technology Planning Steering Committee. The committee has adopted the Leapfrog Paradigm and leapfrog thinking into its planning. Leaping frogs are showing up in presentations, and leapfrog is becoming a metaphor for creativity in the district. The committee’s work has, however, thus far focused on discussion on the [...]
Gallup’s four drivers of innovation
1/22/2007
The Gallup Management Journal recently published an article on what drives innovation in organizations. Shelley Mika disentangles innovation from creativity and identifies four driving principles of innovation, based on discussions with key thinkers and leaders. All four principles are focused on people: “Finding and fostering talent” — people settle where their talent is similar to [...]
John W. Moravec, Ph.D.
12/8/2006
About me I am a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. I am a co-initiator of the Invisible Learning project; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; [...]
A reflection on the future of education from the blogosphere
11/1/2006
“hschmidt07” reflects on Dewey and wonders: [...] how children should be educated in an unpredictable world, in an unending arena of expansion known as the age of information. The advent of this new face of society has evolving needs calling for many types of leadership. This is where I strongly agree with Dewey’s poignant statement [...]
Upcoming ULA workshop: Leadership, Efficacy, and a Culture of Trust
9/14/2006
Leadership, Efficacy, and a Culture of Trust: Key Findings from Learning from Leadership Research Kyla Wahlstrom, University of Minnesota Kyla Wahlstrom, Ph.D., will present findings from Learning from District Efforts to Strengthen Education Leadership, a five-year research study funded by the Wallace Foundation designed to produce empirical evidence establishing the connection between leader performance and [...]
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