Why is it that every person who becomes really successful always learns from a combination of experience and instruction?
What is the difference in the quality of knowledge between knowing something in theory and being skillful with it in the every day world?
Why is the world of entertainment and technology so much more compelling to most students than the world of school?
Why is it impossible to become really skilled in any discipline or field without also going through some major personal changes?
Keynotes and seminars
We talk to and with small and large groups about how people learn, what great education looks like and how to use specific gifts and grants to influence the shape of education to come.
Conversations and dialogues
We both facilitate and participate in conversations with others about the issues of interest such as:
What are the fundamentals about how people learn, and what assumptions do we make in our own efforts?
What does great teaching really look like, and how do we reconcile the competing claims of direct instruction and guided experience?
What outcomes do we really seek, and what is the actual relationship between test scores, on the one hand, and deep understanding and real world competence on the other?
Collaborative ventures
We are interested in joint ventures of all kinds in service of the goal of making educational philanthropy more productive
