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GovernmentPlan in Uncertainty
Adaptive Action, Inquiry, and Pattern Logic are the foundations of HSD, but we have many other models and methods that support wise action in uncertain times. One that I have found useful this week is Questions in Uncertainty. I will share a cycle of reflection based on these questions with you, and invite you into one of your own.
GovernmentManage Strategic Change
In using human systems dynamics to support clients, we work with organizations for whom traditional hierarchies and bureaucratic structures have become barriers to productivity, collaboration, and innovation. In large, loosely connected, more bureaucratic organizations, the structure is blamed for the often-heard complaints about silos; slow response times; lack of coherent, standard practice; and other organizational challenges.
GovernmentBuild Adaptive Capacity
Establishing justice is important, there is no doubt about that. But in order to change a situation, one has to recognize the dynamics at play.
PhilanthropyManage Strategic Change
Each shift, no matter how trivial it might seem in the moment, contributes to the growing tension. Over time, tension accumulates, and ultimately it shifts patterns at every level of the human system. Like an avalanche, a lifetime of love, or a violent society, every whole-scale transformation emerges from the many tiny ones that came before.
Teaching & LearningCollaborate to Create Community
What constitutes a generative ecology for deep learning? In this blog, Royce talks about how school leaders at all scales can set conditions for deep learning ecologies.
Those of us who make our livings as teachers don’t like to admit it, but that is how most complex skills are developed—in real-world practice.
I count this time of year as a special kind of “new year” that opens possibility for my life-long adventure of learning. Maybe it’s because teaching is in my blood—both parents, a grandmother, and three sisters involved in education and schooling. Maybe it’s because I have spent over 40 years in the annual cycle of public schools. Whatever the reason, this time of the year holds a special appeal to me. Children return to school as teachers prepare for the next months of exploration and learning.
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