Getting Unstuck #122: Envisioning Schools as 'Learning Organizations'
Today on Getting Unstuck
In this conversation, we sit down with Andrew Sachs, a retired tech entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Nobel Coaching & Tutoring. Nobel is an online STEAM and leadership camp where youth progress from learner to leader. They master critical life and work skills such as coding, web design, cybersecurity, entrepreneurship and more in the context of local and global collaboration. Andrew is passionate about ensuring that kids have the skills they need to succeed in school, work and life.
This illustration shows the various skill “badges” students can earn in the program and their 8 host domains.
Listen for
1. Why Andrew felt compelled
• to design a STEM program that focuses on building coding skills and
• to focus on helping kids to truly understand what it means to be collaborative and to work effectively in a team environment.
2. The critical elements according to Google’s Project Oxygen study that effective managers demonstrate.
3. Why “psychological safety” is critical to team performance.
4. How the fact that humans are social animals impacts learning and team performance.
5. The importance of agency in student learning.
6. The impact of AI on reimagining education.
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“This book is timely.“
It is needed as educational leaders work through new distance learning approaches for all students. Educators must balance educating students, while keeping staff and students healthy. There is fear on the part of many teachers to remain healthy as they go back to school. Their why is to inspire and ensure that students thrive emotionally, socially and academically.
— Patrick Sweeney, Leadership Coach / Retired Superintendent