Be Creative #26, Write it Down!

http://www.jonacuff.com/blog/29-ways-to-stay-creative/

So I have this idea.  People from industry can work alongside teachers to enrich their content and align it more with what industry needs from future employees.

Another idea from the above video is to create a framework...that is what I need to figure out.  What is the framework for this assign an industry employee to a teacher...I know what it looks like for my unique situation, but how do I back that out into a framework?

HAH!  Look at what I just found:

Institute for the Future of Learning (iFOL)

NCTAF is launching its Institute for the Future of Learning (iFOL) to mobilize a coalition of innovation leaders who are moving beyond reform to school transformation. Our national effort to improve education has reached a fork in the road. Fixing factory-era practices and reforming industrial-era policies is the path to the past. The path to the future lies in transforming the nation’s schools from teaching organizations into learning organizations that can develop the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders our country needs to thrive in a global community. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to design an education system that will genuinely prepare every individual for college, careers, and civic affairs. An education system that supports deeper learning, more effective teaching, and higher impact community engagement. NCTAF is conferring with education innovators to guide and support iFOL’s launch. In the spring, we will convene a national leadership coalition to create an initial manifesto and media campaign that will lay the groundwork for a National Symposium on the Future of Learning in Washington, DC during the fall of 2011. We invite you to join us as we tackle this exciting challenge.

Please contact us at iFOL@nctaf.org

Coffee...

Deeper than a Coffee Cup
By Sean Brereton


"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. "
Proverbs 27:17 TNIV

THERE IS TOO MUCH in common with the community one finds among Christians and the community that is found at a Starbucks. Our addiction to brand name coffee unites us on a large level. We have something in common with millions of other people, because Starbucks are uniform across the country.
The depth of conversations in the Church has started to take on this surface level depth. This is for two big reasons; the first being that we change churches more than we change what we order at Starbucks.
Churches should really be our homes, where we encounter our family. You are more than a regular. You are involved. It's about more than you. It's about the family as a whole. Even past that, Church is about Jesus, it's not about us.
Christian community should have more depth with one another and more concern for one another. We are amazing at avoiding openness, honesty and depth.  If someone opens up or pries we are blindsided.
If we really want to change, we need to get out of being a "regular" and start being a family member. We need to be open and honest about our faults and be pushed toward Jesus, who can fix them.

Think of someone in your church family who you have a "regular" relationship with and attempt to bond with them this week.