by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Leadership
How do we succeed in empowering young children to be the best they can be today and always? Teaching children well is, of course, at the forefront of every parent and educator’s list of priorities. As the leadership figures in our kids’ lives, we want to prepare... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Future-Focused Learning
How we practice connecting to learners right now informs not only how well they learn, but how well they’ll continue to learn. As a busy teacher, you can benefit from a resource that helps you continue reaching students long after the lesson is done. Now we... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Solution Fluency
Preparing for the future is no easy task. One might even say it’s perhaps a mild exercise in futility. After all, how does someone prepare for something they can’t predict? When it comes to being a future-ready educator however, the drive is different.... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
One cannot begin to imagine future learning scenarios if we can’t see where we’ve come from. I remember sitting at my desk with my textbook and notebook open and the teacher at the front of the class lecturing. In the afternoon I would go home to reread the texts and... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment
What will future schools look like in 100 years? For starters, one might begin with ideas gathered from science fiction. The unfortunate thing about many of these scenarios is that they issue us a bleak warning. In these visualizations technology is often seen as the... ![How The Future of STEM is Happening Right Now [Infographic]](https://d2wldp4wpenmih.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/eye-electronic.jpg)
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | STEM
Everybody is talking about the future of STEM learning. As our awareness of it grows, so does our awareness of its importance to what lies ahead. There’s no doubt that STEM is picking up steam as schools continue looking to the possibilities STEM learning... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Social Media
It’s safe to say social networking has taken a hold of the bulk of the Internet world and is not letting go so easily. How does social media meld with our imaginings of what future learning looks like? Let’s begin by looking at the present. People of all... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | STEM
On Friday August 18th, something exciting is happening for future-focused learning at Perth’s Penrhos College, and you’re invited to join the shift. This is Future Focused Learning: Inspiring Students, STEM and Beyond, a one-day conference featuring some... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
The vast world outside of school has amazing lessons for us all and that’s what outdoor education is all about. Weezie Yancey-Siegel reveals what it has in store for our learners’ personal development. via Open Colleges Must we always teach our children... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Teaching
“Meet George Jetson!” My childhood Saturday mornings were spent imagining what the world would be like many years from then. Cities in the sky, automated rituals, robots working for us—it was the stuff of wonder. Countless humans have tried to predict what the future...