Not So Distant Future

In their book, Innovation, Carlson and Wilmot remind us “customers aren’t virtual.”  They remind us of the importance of watching customers use a product, rather than just asking them about them.  As they point out, “The sooner you get out and interact with customers, the better.  They will give you critical information about the marketplace [...]

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  Tomorrow our library move is over and the renovation of our library begins. For a year, I’ll be housed in our ninth grade center, floating to classrooms, and functioning as a “virtual librarian.”   During lunch periods, we’ll be manning an internet cafe in our main building, providing laptops, research help and new books to [...]

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We’re almost finished moving out of our library.  So I just wanted to say goodbye to a comfortable old friend.  When you’ve been in a library for 17 years, you know it backwards and forwards.  Almost every book on the shelf you were responsible for purchasing.   You know the history of the school, and all [...]

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With increasing pressures for AP courses, standardized testing, and college prep curriculums, we struggle to assimilate the different types of students in our schools, who we sometimes find are treated like widgets in a factory, instead of finely hand-crafted wines.   Nationally, we determine their success by the output of the factory, rather than the depth of [...]

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