Tony Wagner

Leverage Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

October 9, 2012

Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools Paul Bambrick-Santoyo Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”  Derek Bok This book is best viewed as an operations manual with a toolkit for those directly involved in public school education in…

Read More

Creating Innovators: A book review by Bob Morris

September 24, 2012

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities…

Read More

The most important skills that Google looks for when hiring

September 22, 2012

When conducting research for his latest book, Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner interviewed hundreds of thought leaders in creativity, innovation, and talent management. One of them is Judy Gilbert, director of Talent at Google. Whether or not you have any interest in…

Read More

Thomas Friedman on “Teaching for America”

November 21, 2010

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas Friedman that appeared in the November 21, 2010, edition of the The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. When I came to Washington in 1988,…

Read More