SERVICES

SERVICES AND ACTIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE MISSION

Seeing education in a new way

Strong skills in English, mathematics, technology, and science, as well as literature, history, and the arts will be essential for many; beyond this, candidates will have to be comfortable with ideas and abstractions, good at analysis and synthesis, creative and innovative, self-disciplined and well organized, able to learn very quickly and work well as a member of a team and have the flexibvility to adapt quickly to frequent changes in the labor market as the shifts in the economy become ever faster and more dramatic (p.xx).  Tough Choices or Tough Times:  The report of the new commission on the skills of the American workforce.  National Center on Education and the Economy.

A Crystal-Clear Purpose for Education: Develop great human beings to be contributors (not burdens) to society.  Educating for Human Greatness Group.

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 does current research reveal about how people learn?
  

• 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, deep understanding and real world competence?
  

Collaborative ventures

We are interested in joint ventures of all kinds in service of the goal of pooling resources in order to better inform the public about how people learn and what effective education and great teaching look like.