Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack” begins to play as the StriveTogether Leadership Program seminar concludes. Several participants chuckle as they pack their materials to head home, having discovered that the music over the previous two days was themed given the activity or time of day. For decades, researchers have studied how music affects people’s productivity,…
The 2019 Art Inspires scholarship application is available in English here. La aplicación de la beca El Arte Inspira está disponible en español aquí. There is an overused idiom often said about art: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” While the phrase is cliché, it speaks to the power of the arts to evoke emotion, explain the…
These insights about team composition and other learnings from building capabilities collaboratively will be shared at the 2018 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, April 3-5. Attend StriveTogether’s workshop, Building Improvement Science Capability Across Communities to Achieve Systems Change, on Thursday, April 5, at 10:15 a.m. PT. When I was in fourth grade, we…
(Caption for above photo) Teams from Porter Leath, Communities in Schools, Latino Memphis, Knowledge Quest and Literacy Mid-South participated in a series of Beyond the Classroom workshops to spread a culture of results and data within their organizations. Before we all held Global Positioning Systems in our hands, we used maps and compasses to navigate…
In education, challenges are complex, often chronic and sometimes seem insurmountable. But what if we tackled these challenges with a “How Might We” approach? As IDEO’s CEO, Tim Brown, explains in his blog, The Secret Phrase that Sparks Creative Solutions: “How assumes that solutions exist and provides the creative confidence needed to identify and solve for…
