Resources

Think Tank: [|Flip-thinking] - the new buzz word sweeping the US Flipping instruction is a new concept with solid results. During times of budget reductions and the need to engage students in meaningful conversation, "flipping" instruction only makes sense!

One aid to effective meetings that is rarely focused on is properly ending a meeting. Closing a meeting well requires as much purposefulness and art as opening a meeting. Just as openings have goals, so do endings.
 * Understand the Art of Ending a Meeting: Ending a Meeting**

**Shake it Up:** [|Alternative Meeting Strategies] Here are five creative and effective meeting techniques, ranging from short stand-ups gatherings to conversations that take place in a three-dimensional online world.

Powerpoint with innovative ideas which may contradict our traditional way of doing business.
 * 9 Notions of Innovation: [|Innovation] **

This is another official update to the original "Shift Happens" video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.
 * Did You Know? [|Did You Know 4.0?]**

It seems every time education hits the national news—and that was frequently in the past year—the focus is on some type of magic solution that will improve schools nationwide. The examples contained in this article show the exceptional work being done in a dozen districts.
 * [|Five School Districts Reinvented]**