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Build Adaptive Capacity
To see patterns in the world around you is to know your world and to understand something about that world. You make sense of the world by recognizing the patterns around you.
Build Adaptive Capacity
In a complex human system, you can’t be certain of “top-down” control; you may not be able to predict of the future. Your every interaction shapes emergent patterns of behavior and decision making. The world you know is open to known and unknown forces that influence from inside and outside your system’s immediate boundaries.
I’ve been thinking about friendship a lot lately. We lost Brenda Zimmerman from the community of complexity scholars. An old friend from college died in a terrible accident in December. My best and oldest friend called last night to tempt me with a spring holiday in Bruges.
In HSD we use three characteristics to describe and understand complex adaptive systems: They are open to influence from internal and external forces that may be known or not, predictable or not, and controllable or not. They are highly diverse. They are nonlinear, and what you know from the past and experience today can influence the patterns of your future or not.
A linguistic landscape can be found on any school campus – it is essentially the way in which language – both written and verbal – is used to covey the beliefs and foundations of an organization. As a fall semester student teacher at Lawson Middle School in Cupertino, Ca, I had the privilege of experiencing and discovering exactly what Lawson values: the whole child.
Plan in Uncertainty
Planning is a challenge even in the best of times. But it is a necessary challenge. A plan helps you align imagination with resources, expectations with realities, and individual concerns with collective good.
Plan in Uncertainty
Recently I worked with a group of middle managers charged with the task of leading a system-wide change initiative. Their considerations included programmatic, organizational, and service delivery changes. At the same time, they were shifting from a program-determined silo structure to one that required collaborative planning across all programs.
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