Author Archive: tilisa.thibodeaux1@gmail.com
Chronicles: Challenges are YOUR Opportunity
In my current role as Dean of the Honors College and Texas Academy, I have found that there are many challenges across both programs. From the smallest minutia of the daily whirlwind to the larger “fires” that our team put…
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Outstanding Innovator and Committed Leader
I first want to share my accomplishment for being chosen as a recipient of the Outstanding Innovator & Committed Leader award by Lamar University Digital Leadership Master’s Program. Though honored, humbled and surprised to hear the news it allowed me to reflect…
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The Myth of Average
I am reading Todd Rose’s book, The End of Average, where he posits that when we develop assumptions or generate conclusions based on what is considered average, and that all outside assumptions and conditions are variants of the average, we…
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Passion or Pity?
From the time I was a youth, I believed that there was a special approach, or prescriptive formula, or only one way to do things. I believed that the right way was always going to be more difficult because it…
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#Future Learning
World class education for everyone is a prerequisite for prosperity. Sal Khan – In personalized learning, we can use what’s already there but change the methodology. Content should be reflected in the energy and voice in deliverer, we shouldn’t have…
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Disrupting Education
“What is disruptive? Moving from consumption to creation….this is where the magic happens. When students create and tackle real things, they get engaged. Kids are hungry to create. They are looking for new ways to do it….stay up all night…
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Focus on the behavior now and the outcome will follow.
Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler (2013) advocate to focus on changing goals, behaviors, or processes; do not focus on the results. You might be asking yourself….what does this mean? Well, let me share an example. When I was in high…
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