Dr. Howard Stribbell

Building a network of innovative international schools & companies 🇲🇴🇭🇰🇨🇳🇰🇭🇹🇭 🇨🇦 by building great teams #socialmedia, #edtech, #schoolculture #AI

[21st Century Learning @21cli]

💡 The biggest risk with AI isn’t that it’s wrong… it’s that it’s good enough.

🎙️ Panel: Balancing Innovation with Ethics: Where Should We Draw the Line with AI in Schools?

If we stop questioning, we stop learning.

[21st Century Learning @21cli]

Hot from the press!

Press release on the 2027 GBA School Awards and ASEAN School Awards.

Read more: https://t.co/2wLCI64uh4

⭐ Apply for GBA School Awards: https://t.co/QSgVRUiwSZ

🔥 Apply for ASEAN School Awards: https://t.co/6UoL7UY6Su

#GBASchoolAwards #ASEANSchoolAwards #21CL #recognition

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My first book launched on Amazon today!

So excited and grateful for all the support.

(Help out a new author and repost, please)

[21st Century Learning @21cli]

📢 An update from the Lead to Succeed community

We’ve extended regular pricing for Lead to Succeed 2026 until 17 April, giving you a little more time to plan and be part of the experience.

[Evrim Kanbur @WhileTravelling]

Are you watching the Chinese New Year Gala? The Robot Kungfu show is mind blowing!!!

They just executed a coordinated martial arts routine with spatial precision, rhythm control, and dynamic balance adjustments in real time.

Kung fu, one of China’s most iconic traditional art forms , performed by machines built with cutting-edge AI control systems, advanced actuators, and high-speed feedback loops. Ancient discipline meets algorithmic precision.

Last year, humanoid robots stepped onto the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time. This year, they held synchronized kung fu stances with balance that would humble half of us after leg day.

And they did it live!!! On the most-watched television event on the planet.

The progress in just one year is magical.
That’s what we call China speed.

What makes it even sweeter is where this happened.

I love how the progress is integrated in culture. In celebration. In a Lunar New Year gala watched by hundreds of millions.

It’s music to my ears.

The robots didn’t look like they were “trying” anymore. They looked like they belonged.

Their joint articulation was smoother.
Their formation timing tighter.
Their balance recovery almost elegant.
Their choreography is expressive.

That’s what happens when AI models improve, control systems get smarter, hardware stabilizes, and iteration cycles compress.

One year in robotics today is not the same as one year ten years ago.

It’s compounding.

If this is what 12 months looks like,
imagine 36.

The Chinese New Year Robot Kungfu Gala is just futuristic.

It was quite the statement!

The future is getting better very, very fast.

It was so beautiful to watch. What do you think?

[Dr. Howard Stribbell @howardstribbell]

Humble audacity is saying,
“I might be wrong.”
And still making the call.

Confidence isn’t certainty.
It’s ownership.

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Check out my latest article: For-Profit vs Non-Profit Schools: The Question People Ask, and the One They Avoid https://t.co/ijEPGvu1YL via @LinkedIn

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Parent meetings - anxiety for every principal. But what do they really want?
Are you bringing clarity or confusion parents?

https://t.co/3hNbhqlU74

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Life/work/love/health isn’t easy. Do the hard things.
Good reminders from @Codie_Sanchez

3 psychological tools for crushing your goals https://t.co/EwyC3089yD

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Being “nice” is not the same as being kind.
Nice avoids tension.
Kind tells the truth and stays in the room.

#leadership #schooladmin #principals

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At the risk of offending X, some thoughts for those wanting to connect on LinkedIn:

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Holding the line, especially when unpopular or misunderstood, not because of stubbornness or pride but because it’s the right thing to do, that’s leadership. @drgurner #leadership #integrity

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2024 took almost everything from me.
2025 was about rebuilding myself.
2026 is about building something new.

Not reclaiming what was lost,
but creating something better.
Something more honest.

It’s quiet. Grounded. Certain.
Built with joy, peace, and a steady hunger for more.

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@brianlalor Amazon has a good self publishing channel. I hired someone on UpWork to format my book and go through the publishing process for me

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Building leaders is like building strength.

It doesn’t happen in one day.
It happens in the reps—
in the hard calls,
the unseen decisions,
the daily choice to lead even without the title.

Are you training like a leader yet?

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Great framework for teachers and schools on how to use AI to Preserve Learning and Maintain Integrity
@21cli #aife25

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“AI isn’t the problem, it is just showing us how our systems are misaligned.” @WarrenApel9531 #aife25 @21cli

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Getting ready to go! #aife25 #jakarta #ai @jahardman @21cli

[Dr. Howard Stribbell @howardstribbell]

We are leading schools like they are factories.
Just stop.

Schools are not factories.
Students are not widgets.
Learning is not an assembly line.

It’s time to evolve.

https://t.co/3Oyqlvd5bA

#Leadership #schooladmin #education #albertateachersstrike #studentsdeservebetter

[Dr. Howard Stribbell @howardstribbell]

28 years, 5 countries, 8 schools, hundreds of leaders & students later...
I've learned that leadership is a dance between heart and execution.
Relationships matter - but so do results.
You don't change schools or people by yourself. You change with them.