This sounds like it’s straight out of Sir Michael Barber’s “Deliverology,” which I had to suffer through when working in assessments. Didn’t do much to improve UK schools. John Seddon did a pretty thorough dismantling in “Systems Thinking in the Public Sector.”
Don’t forget mictic. It goes with your egg.
I've never heard a curriculum director talk about what it would mean to be faithful to students or to the profession, but I could buy dinner with the number of times I've heard fidelity to a curriculum.
In honor of the late Stafford Beer's 100th birthday, we are collaborating with Metaphorum to present a series of speakers for online events about Beer’s work and its lasting relevance for questions regarding postcapitalism and democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/indepxmetaph...
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
A few days ago we lost an important hidden figure in the history of 20th century Cold War technology—Gladys West’s work and insights were essential in the creation of GPS:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Promotional poster for UVA Data Science 2026 'Data is Art' competition, featuring a hand reaching towards a cluster of orange and gray dots symbolizing data, with details on submissions and the theme 'Truth'. Submissions are due March 1, 2026, a URL is featured that reads: datascience.virginia.edu/data-art
We invite you to apply to our Data is ART competition. Open to all disciplines and mediums.
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I’m reading Seddon now. Many examples, including the call center, mirror what system dynamics calls the rework cycle. The cost of rework is often 2 or 3x the cost of doing something right the first time bc of work that must be undone, and rework is rarely recognized in the accounting.
@allanpatterson.bsky.social tells the story here of Deming's management philosophy, how it revolutionised manufacturing, and how it can revolutionise public services given half a chance.
(Fyi @johnseddon.bsky.social )
open.substack.com/pub/allanpat...
Organizing books by colour is pervert shit.
Has Research on “What Works” in Education Been Looking at the Wrong Interventions? Revisiting “Why ‘What Works’ Won't Work” Gert Biesta First published: 02 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.70063 view metrics SectionsPDFTools Share Abstract In this invited article, I revisit my 2007 essay “Why ‘What Works’ Won't Work: Evidence-Based Practice and the Democratic Deficit in Educational Research.” I provide a summary of the key arguments in the essay, explain why I used the phrase “democratic deficit,” examine what I have observed regarding the discussion about “evidence” in education since the publication of the essay, and show, through an exploration of the educational placebo effect, why the comparison between education and medicine remains problematic. I suggest that this may have important implications for the design of educational research. It also raises the interesting question to what extent existing evidence about educational effectiveness has been looking at the right interventions. Against this background, I reiterate my call for a broader spectrum of research approaches than only those that focus on the question of “what works.” This is as much a call for researchers as it is a call for policymakers and educational practice.
Gert Biesta just published a brief reflection on his important 2007 article, "Why 'What Works' Won't Work" in Education:
"...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but you could check out ELIZA, one of the earliest chatbots to use natural language processing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Tomorrow hasn’t been invented yet, so how can they know what the workforce needs to look like? Tomorrow they’ll complain education isn’t preparing students for careers, because they insisted education prepare students for today’s workforce.
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
The meaning of science education isn't just:
✕ Knowing the content, nor
✕ Knowing how scientists work
The major goal is:
✓ Learning to think about content like a scientist
Through the content, students should understand the nature of models and learn how to infer explanations from them.
#EduSky
Boundary Logic is a unary, post-symbolic logic, inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and George Spencer Brown. The new post in the Containment series gives an overview.
www.linkandth.ink/p/boundary-l...
#LoF #logic #math #computing
And why exactly do Cultural Studies and Algebra II need to be mutually exclusive?
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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If you completely remove a problem's context and can still solve it, can it really be mathematical modeling?
robertkaplinsky.com/beware-...
My time with my current employer has come to an end. I am grateful for what I have learned about myself personally & professionally during the last 3 years.
If you know any schools/districts looking for professional development, feel free to drop my name and encourage them to visit strongermath.com
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
#EduSky #UKEd
I'm creating a live sketch note on the global Sketch Your Mind week of seminars. I'm attempting to capture Jono Hey's session (author of Big Ideas, Little Pictures) Sketchplanations. Here's a promotional video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncxI...
Abelian grapes are in the next aisle, Maria
Cover of Teaching Contentious Topics in a Divided Nation by Ryan Sprott
Cover of Difference Maker by Christian Moore-Anderson
In contrast to my criticisms of other books and publishers earlier this week, as I queue up Saturday's HRP podcast release, I have to highlight that two of the *best* education books I've read so far this year have been self-published. Huge respect to Ryan Sprott & @cmooreanderson.bsky.social!
Cover of The Landscape Model of Learning
Headshot of Kapono Ciotti
In our latest episode, Dr. Kapono Ciotti explores the experiences that led him to co-author The Landscape Model of Learning & how students can become protagonists of their own future.
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/the...
Gloria Caeli, a tiedyed balloon against a blue sky background.
What I love most is putting flying fractal art into the big blue sky. This is Gloria Caeli (“the Glory of the Sky”) my first fullsize tiedye balloon. She’s the world’s largest tiedye, with 196 spirals, made from ~1000 meters of white nylon. So much joy, beauty and adventure ! #ArtAdventCalendar
