Harvard Graduate School of Education

Play, passion, purpose: Tony Wagner @ TEDxNYED

September 14, 2012

How can we design schools that foster innovative thinking? At TEDxNYED, Tony Wagner outlines how an overemphasis on individual achievement, hyper-specialization, and an aversion to risk have stymied inventiveness and describes what specifically teachers and parents can do to sow…

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Tony Wagner on “Beyond Testing: 7 Disciplines for Strengthening the Instruction of Children”

September 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read…

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Holly Weeks: An interview by Bob Morris

December 27, 2011

Holly Weeks publishes, teaches, and consults on communications issues. As principal of Holly Weeks Communication, she consults and coaches on negotiation and written and conversational communications issues, with a special emphasis on sensitive and difficult problems. She is also an adjunct…

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