Thank you for a great day!

To each and every attendee at the Expo June 14th - thank you for such a wonderful day! The conversations, the hallway exchanges, the contributions to the legacy of this initiative were tremendous. You can view the notes from the Conversations of Consequence (morning breakouts) at the URL set up for us by our Reese Center partners. Stay tuned for more information about how the outcomes from the Expo will be processed, promoted, and shared broadly.

Intense conversation!

The thing that struck me first as I walked into the Orange room a little late - was the intensity of the conversation among the group. You never know how people are going to take to structure applied to conversation ("list 5 reasons," "list 3 approaches," etc) - it can seem arbitrary and artificial. But this group - discussing ways learning can be optimized in learning communities -was really into it! And I picked up a really major new idea (to me): that teaching to the tests in K-12 is antithetical to the way we expect students to learn in higher education. A light bulb went on!

So I'm off to the re-mixed groups - see how these ideas work when taken through a somewhat different lens.

Fun stuff! The creativity and focus portends a terrific day!