I'm at Educon. If you're not familiar with Educon, it's a conference/conversation hosted by Chris Lehmann and the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. I was fortunate to be able to spend Thursday and Friday hanging around the school. Here's what I saw: Lots of smiles. Loud classrooms A principal's office that looked more like grand...

Thanks to a comment from Bill Ferriter, I finally took the time to watch Barry Schwartz’ recent TED talk. Schwartz talk on the Paradox of Choice remains one of my favourites but this one might surpass it. For a great synopsis of the talk check out Rob Jacob’s post. As Bill connected my post on worthless pursuits to this talk, I continue to believe how...