Culture, Autonomy, Communication, Diversity and Inclusion

Five important things.

Culture and Autonomy

When we survey our employees, culture and autonomy always come up as top reasons people stay.

Why we stay at Automattic: culture and autonomy
Why we stay at Automattic: culture and autonomy

Source: 2016 Year Review

Culture always wins over tools and technologies, but most of the business world is tone deaf to understanding culture.

Source: FAQ about The Year Without Pants (with satisfying answers)

Culture can be the foundation for all future innovation, or it can be the single biggest resistance to innovation. Don’t fuck up culture.

Source: Project-based Learning and School Culture

Communication is Oxygen

793 Slack channels, 441 P2 blogs, 4,628 Zoom video chats
793 Slack channels, 441 P2 blogs, 4,628 Zoom video chats

That’s a lot of writing.

In the age of distributed collaboration, we are constantly writing.

Source: Writing in Education and Plain Text Flow

Change the technology culture of school. The voice & choice of inclusive education needs an open by default infrastructure for communication and collaboration. Technology will not find its place in the classroom until we move away from the remediation of the deficit model and embrace open and accessible collaboration.

Source: Communication is oxygen. Build a district wide collaboration infrastructure and an open by default culture.

Diversity and Inclusion

ICYMI, I’m sharing recaps of my D&I professional development. I hope and intend to continue this series.

Diversity & Inclusion Recap #1

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