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NAIS 2008 Annual Conference Presentation

PowerPoint, 26 mb

Since Spring 2006, Grace-St. Luke’s School has been using Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind to understand the challenges of the 21st century and how our school must respond. What we have discovered is:

Change is a hard sell. It has been a big job to guide our teachers/staff, breaking through resistance that says, “It’s working good for me. Why change?”
Change creates anxiety and resistance. Morale can suffer during the process of change.
Change reveals a level of “toxicity” that is otherwise kept in check.
Change is hard to implement. We have great ideas that we believe in, but making time to incorporate the new is difficult.
Change is costly. But, the cost of not changing is deadly.
Change is a process.

Using the Six Senses as outlined in Pink’s A Whole New Mind – design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning – we will present a year’s plan for developing “a whole new mind” at your school from top to bottom.

Presenters: Jamie Baker and Tom Beazley, Head of Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School, Memphis, Tennessee

ACDA: Visioning Your Future

PowerPoint, 3 mb

Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching. In addition, ACDA strives through arts advocacy to elevate choral music’s position in American society. As the association approaches its 50th anniversary, ACDA leadership is intent on addressing the sustainability and relevance of its organization for the next 50 years. This presentation guides ACDA national, divisional, and state leadership through a framework to develop the right questions as they begin to make decisions about their strategic direction for the future. Leaders worked on these questions in conversational cafes over the course of five hours, harvesting many ideas, new perspectives, and new directions.
Presenter: Jamie Baker July 2008

Know Yourself

Now, Discover Your Strengths – Buckingham and Clifton Understand your strengths. Online test determines which 5 of the 34 different strengths are your strongest. Strengths determined by research by Gallup
Strengthfinder by Gallup Site for second generation strength assessment book from Gallup
Website of Po Bronsonauthor of bestseller What Should I Do with My Life
Roadtrip Nation Students head out on the highway in green RVs to interview leaders nationwide in search of advice about life direction. Now a PBS series
Personal DNA Fun personality test
Myers-Briggs Typology assessment
Humanmetrics Tests at this site help Identify your personal type in Jung Typology Test. Plus several other tests
Carl Jung
VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire plus many more

Find Happiness/Have Meaning

Mindreading

The Interactive Guide to Emotions
Joseph Campbell

‘Follow Your Bliss’ Author of ‘The Hero with 1000 Faces’

Emotions Revealed – Paul Ekman Understanding Emotions and Evaluating Truthfulness
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Stumbling on Happiness – Dan Gilbert
The Art of Happiness – The Dalai Lama
Authentic Happiness – Martin Seligman
The Happiness Institute – Timothy J Sharp
Happiness Foundation
Positive Psychology
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
Abraham Maslow
Flow – Mihaly Csikentmihalyi

The Happiness Hypothesis

Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt

Keep up with Technology

MIT Technology Review
Nobel laureates
DARPA
Wired Magazine Ray Kurzweil
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Futurist and Inventor
The Singularity is Near

See Differently – Study Art and Design

How to See – George Nelson
The Artist Way – Julia Cameron
The Artist Way at Work
Draw on the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards
Phillippe Starck Design Guru Sister Wendy Beckett
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Art21 Series on PBS that highlights various artists of today

Karim Rashid Design Guru

Ian Schrager Founder of Morgans Hotel Group

The Substance of Style – Virginia Postrel
Association Independent Colleges of Art and Design Consortium of 35 art schools. Is the BFA the new MBA?
Institute of Design at Stanford
Kaie Wellman’s eatshopguides.com Great guide books. To be included business must be in urban core, locally owned and run by inspired individual. Is this business a marketing concept, a business plan or a dream?

Jackson Pollack Create your own Pollack
Understand the power of scale Powers of Ten-Charles and Ray Eames
Milton Glaser The iconic mind behind the I heart NY logo. Check out the Ten things that he has learned and watch that short film.

Learn to Tell a Story

Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff
Andy Goodman – Story to advance your mission
Stealing Fire from The Gods – James Bonnet
Shakespeare
Hollywood Screenwriting Coach Story: Substance, Structure, Style… – Robert McKee
How to Powerpoint Beyond Bullet Points – Cliff Atkinson

The da Vinci of data – Edward Tufte
Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels 100 great stories from the 20th Century

Modern Library’s Top 100 Nonfiction
Good stories can be nonfiction too

Identify classic American cinema at The American Film Institute

Great Cinema delivered to your doorstep by Netflix

Hear Joseph Campbell talk about The Powers of Mythology George Lucas used the works of Campbell as a resource when he told the Star Wars story

New Ideas, New Evironment

A Whole New Mind – Dan Pink
The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman
The Creative Class – Richard Florida New ideas on how to create economic growth
The Long Tail – Chris Anderson The universe of the obscure is worth more than the best sellers in the New Economy

Read the original article in the October 2004 issue of Wired
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan

Randomness and Knowledge are explored

Alvin Toffler Futurist that wrote Future Shock and other titles addresses the digital revolution, communications revolution and corporate revolution
Good to Great – Jim Collins http://www.jimcollins.com/

Tom Peters Management guru in search of excellence

Susan Jacoby The Age of American Unreason

Is public ignorance widespread

Michael Lewis Author that chronicles isolated sub cultures that are unique to our times
Bo Burlingham

Small Giants decide to pursue greatness rather than growth
I discovered while spending a week in Ann Arbor and eating at Zingerman’s Deli
A poster child for the Small Giant ideal

Freakonomics – Stephen Levitt

Pop culture meets economics

The Tipping Point & Blink – Malcolm Gladwell Writes about the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences

Super Crunchers – Ian Ayres How thinking by numbers is the new way to be smart

The Experience Economy
Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want.
Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore
The service economy evolves to create meaningful experiences

Chip and Dan Heath – Made to Stick What makes ideas stick
Howard Gardner The Theory of multi-intelligences

Author of many books including Five Minds for the Future
The five minds of the future are Creating, Disciplined, Ethical, Respectful, Synthesizing
Edge Foundation Promotes inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society Seed Mag Science is Culture
Deepak Chopra Interconnect mind and body
Richard Brodie – Viruses of the Mind The Science of the Meme

Richard Dawkins Introduced the idea of the Meme in The Selfish Gene

The Landmark Project The nature of info is changing. So is literacy for the 21st century
Peter Drucker Management Guru that coined the term knowledge worker
Thinkers 50> Management Thinkers listed with links

Chip Conley Founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels in and around San Francisco. Great companies get there Mojo from Maslow.
Joie de Vivre Hotels

Conversation and Collaboration

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe

Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together-William Isaacs

Wikinomics – Don Tapscott

The Wikipedia Page on Wikinomics
Socrates Café

Peter SengeSchools That Learn Fieldbook

Learn to Be Creative

Sir Ken Robinson Out of Our Minds: Learning to be CreativeCreativity is the new literacy
Ken Robinson gave a great talk at TED
Ten Faces of Innovation – Tom Kelley GM of Ideo writes about innovation
Ideo method cardsDeck of cards that will help you innovate
Innovative design firm, Ideo
The Medici Effect – Frans Johannson
Like the renaissance there is an explosion of creativity. Download The Medici Effect at no charge.
Edward de Bono
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Teaches creative thinking as a skill.

Lateral Thinking
Thinking that is not so obvious

The L Game Simple game that will make you think
Six Hats Framework for thinking laterally developed by DeBonoSchool of Thinking
Founded by Michael Hewitt-Gleeson and Edward de Bono

How to Think Like DaVinci – Michael Gelb

Learn to be creative like DaVinci
Why Not? – Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres
Be an everyday innovator