Dan Coleman

Principal, Big Sky Blue design

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

What do leaders get out of leading? Let me know what you think! https://t.co/yJ1Y3LHOJF

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

@GOPLeader Agreed. These old men in dark suits have spent the past 4 years applauding the steps the leader of their party has taken to bring to the brink of destruction the democracy to which they have sworn their allegiance. The mob was inside the Capitol long before yesterday's break-in.

[PDK International @pdkintl]

"We often overlook the many ways our students teach and learn from each other, both in and out of the classroom," @ColemanDan says. @TeachThought @CollabClassroom https://t.co/uM0TWuz8vK

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

@michaelbhorn @NewYorkUni @outschool @prendalearn @QuantumCamp @hczorg I've always loved Frank Smith's take on joyful learning--his claim that the most important thing to listen for when you walk by a classroom is the sound of people laughing. #bookoflearningandforgetting

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

& focusing on whether W held back the truth to sell books? That’s journalistic self-indulgence. Against what our C-in-C has admitted to (not) doing--protecting the lives of 100,000s of Americans--I cdn’t care less whether the most famous journalist in the world is sleazy or noble

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

Hi @NPRKelly. I love your work and listen all the time. But I think you’ve been focusing on the least important aspect of the Woodward story. Here’s how I see it:

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

The General might argue that he shouldn’t panic his troops--maybe that even makes the slightest sense. But not doing anything to prepare them? So hundreds of thousands of them die needlessly? That is unforgivable.

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

Principals must help parents prepare to be at-home teachers, say @ColemanDan & @hgse’s Thomas J. Kane. #EWOpinion https://t.co/HzrkmzO4FX

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

How might we structure #virtuallearning so it’s more like a knitting circle: each student working on their own, but side-by-side. #workingalonetogether #designforlearning
https://t.co/gXKVeo5EQJ

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

The idea of “working alone together” gets more compelling as an approach to #remotelearning alongside Micki Chi’s findings on the difference between when we “construct” knowledge on our own--and build it “interactively” with someone else.

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

We’ve always known we learn deeper by dialogue than by lecture--but I’d never guessed at the difference "watching collaboratively" could make. #deeperlearning https://t.co/WnLxnpTCK6

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

“Schools will confront a new fiscal reality where budgets will still have to be trimmed and class sizes will need to be increased,” even after the pandemic, write @ColemanDan & @hgse’s Thomas J. Kane. #EWOpinion https://t.co/HzrkmA5Fxv

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

Principals must help parents prepare to be at-home teachers, say @ColemanDan & @hgse’s Thomas J. Kane. #EWOpinion https://t.co/HzrkmA5Fxv

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

Now's our chance to lean into a real school-parent partnership--

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

Principals, don’t neglect to support your new parent-faculty during remote learning, say @ColemanDan and Thomas J. Kane. #EWOpinion https://t.co/HzrkmzO4FX

[PDK International @pdkintl]

"As we continue to redesign the ways we do school virtually, we need to make sure to build in those essential — but less obvious — parts of being in school that our children miss the most," @ColemanDan says. @TeachThought @InspireTeach @MindShift @ASCD https://t.co/kSaNvvVMK3

[Harvard CEPR @HarvardCEPR]

CEPR Faculty Director Tom Kane and @ColemanDan published a new op-ed in @EdWeekOpinion titled," Not All Parents Can Be At-Home Teachers This Fall. Principals Must Be Prepared Either Way."

Read more here: https://t.co/oS21EiRLS8 #SchoolReopening #education

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

though my favorite description of this approach is Donald Finkel's in this swell old book:

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

@erickalenze frames the same distinction real well: "building relationships with our students" keeps teachers at the center of the action--a comfortable, familiar place for many of us....

[Eric Kalenze @erickalenze]

Appreciating these insights from @ColemanDan, as, after researching 'What the Academy Taught Us' and digging back into some social-psych research, been thinking much the same.

Talked about it all at #rEDUSVirtual20 recently, too. See... https://t.co/WE5q6j2Qb4

[Dan Coleman @ColemanDan]

...while "building a sense of belonging among our students" invites teachers to step back into the role of a *designer*--or what the folks @ChanZuckerberg call a "learning engineer."