{"id":62,"date":"2008-12-01T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2009-02-19T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:42:31","slug":"what-can-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=62","title":{"rendered":"What can be seen..and learned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI never predict. I just look out the window and see what\u2019s visible\u2014but not yet seen.<br \/>\n\u2026 I look for things that have already happened, and have not yet had consequences<br \/>\n&#8230; and I foresee them.\u201d <\/em> \u2013 Peter Drucker<\/p>\n<p>Other areas on this site provide the context \u2013 the <em>Know-Why<\/em> \u2013 to support its fundamental <em>Sense-Making<\/em> purposes \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to offer ways to think differently about the learning-blocking conditions that continue to frustrate practitioners and policymakers, and then<\/li>\n<li>to provide examples of the different <em>Know-How<\/em> that can emerge from that understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This area of the site serves dual purposes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>to capture the thinking and learning products of an embedded learner in a school system transforming itself as-a-system over ten years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=235\" target=\"_self\">20,000 Ft Memos and Reports &#8211; in Resources<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>To present possibly <em>new understandings<\/em> that emerged from the way-of-thinking the lens supported and use these as catalysts for continued thinking and learning dialogues with those who wish to join in as thinking partners and co-learners.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As the menu below indicates, this area is and will remain a work-in-progress.\u00a0 Each topic has a common format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>New understandings<\/em> that emerged from the way-of-thinking the lens supported,<\/li>\n<li>the types of <em>questions<\/em> they raise for planning and operations. Question\u2019s that not only make <em>theoretical<\/em> sense (but for which there may not have been practical answers), but at the same time, questions informed by the knowledge that practical answers can be \u201cseen\u201d and understood in the ten-year MCPS journey.<\/li>\n<li>Indicators of where one might look in the <em>MCPS experiences<\/em> to find more about how this thinking plays out in practice. (There may be some overlap from scanning the same \u201celephant\u201d to learn from how it responded to different issues and conditions.)<\/li>\n<li>Questions to tap your insights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>************<br \/>\n(PRESENTLY INCLUDED)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=146\" target=\"_self\">New Understanding: The Complementarity of Policy and Practice<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=149\" target=\"_self\">New Understanding:\u00a0 Decision-making relationships<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=152\" target=\"_self\">New Understanding:\u00a0 A needed Role map<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=160\" target=\"_self\">New Understanding: The X-factor at work<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/?page_id=166\" target=\"_self\">New Understanding: The Zen of data-driven decision-making<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(TO BE ACCESSIBLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE)<br \/>\nNew Understanding: If the organization is the learner, who is the teacher?<br \/>\nThe 3M\u2019s and 3R\u2019s of a Teaching Organization<br \/>\nNew Understanding: The District as Bathtub&#8211; the unit-of-sustainable change<br \/>\nNew Understanding: Leadership\u2019s System-seeing Connection<br \/>\nNew Understanding: Time as a Leadership constant, not a variable<br \/>\nNew Understanding: Schooling as Knowledge Management.<br \/>\nNew Understanding: Vision as the light at this end of the tunnel<br \/>\nNew Understanding: Keeping the Elephant on the Table: Management-by-Consequences<br \/>\nNew Understanding: Technology as strategic tool<br \/>\nNew Understanding:\u00a0 Bridging the Paradigm Gap<br \/>\nNew Understanding:\u00a0 Systemic Governance<br \/>\nNew Understanding: \u201cMake a Difference\u201d<br \/>\nNew Understanding: System\u2019s \u201cTeachable Moments\u201d<br \/>\nNew Understanding: The Accountability\/Responsibility Confusion<br \/>\nNew Understanding: The \u201cgap\u201d gap<br \/>\n(\u2026AND MORE)<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;The seeds of the future are being sown in the present,<br \/>\nif we only knew where to look.&#8221; <\/em><br \/>\nMilton Chen,<br \/>\nExec. Dir., George Lucas Educational Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI never predict. I just look out the window and see what\u2019s visible\u2014but not yet seen. \u2026 I look for things that have already happened, and have not yet had consequences &#8230; and I foresee them.\u201d \u2013 Peter Drucker Other areas on this site provide the context \u2013 the Know-Why \u2013 to support its fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sabusense.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}