You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Richard Buckminster Fuller A Short Note on Hierarchy – and why we’re leaving it In my most favourite book Reinventing Organizations; which started my Journey for Teal School you find the above Buckminster…
“It is about people. Connecting deeply to each other, to themselves and to the system. From seeing the system as something that is out there, something they’re doing to us, towards seeing yourself as being part of the system”Otto Scharmer, in a talk about U Theory at Wisdom 2.0 The brighter future is in the…
If everyone had to think outside the box, maybe it was the box that needed fixing. Malcolm Gladwell What the dog saw Holacracy for Schools We’ve earlier written about the basics of Holacracy. But what would adopting Holacracy mean for a school in particular? A school adopting Holacracy as a structural system within which organisations…
Why grades? Have you thought about the purpose of grades? I’ve been against grades altogether for years, but I hadn’t until recently reflected that deeply about why they were there in the first place. There has been an ongoing debate about starting to give out grades in 4th grade in Sweden, instead of 6th grade as…