Matchbook Learning is pleased to announce that pending Halifax County School Board approval, Inborden Elementary School in Enfield, NC, will join our portfolio of schools starting in…

The debate around teachers and public education’s challenges is primed with rhetoric, conflict, intense emotion and lack of unity.  On the one side, policy makers, school districts…

So how do we apply the leadership concepts of vision, role model and recognition that Robert Steven Kaplan outlined in his great book “What to Ask the Person in the Mirror”? Matchbook…

  Robert Steven Kaplan, Harvard Business School Professor and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, former vice-chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in his recent…

In my last update, I referenced how Stanford & University of California Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank in the Harvard Business Review May 2013 article “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes…

  Launching a start-up is risky, regardless of industry.  75% of all start-ups fail.  Period.  Faint of heart need not apply. The collateral damage of time, money,…

Harvard Education Specialist Tony Wagner has a new book out called “Creating Innovators:  The Making of Innovators Who Will Change the World”.  I have ordered it but not…

Matchbook Learning Founder & CEO, Sajan George speaks at TEDxUNC.

Education Researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize.  He will use his $1M prize to build a school in the cloud, accessible by any student, anywhere, anytime. …

I am about to talk about Twitter but before I do, I must confess that I do not have a Twitter account.  I realize that my confession may be conjuring images of a Neanderthal or…

Daniel Pink is one of my favorite authors.  His last 3 books were so influential in framing my perspective from social science research around 3 key dimensions of the learning…

We recently witnessed our nation’s single most watched annual sporting event, the Super Bowl.  Regardless of whether your team won or not, or whether you are a casual fan or…

Yesterday, February 6th was National Digital Learning Day.  Did you blow out your digital cake online or simply have an app to do that for you?  ☺  I am not sure where…

Here I describe in detail our school turnaround methodology .  Most turnarounds in general and school turnarounds in particular are impossible.  The historical statistics…

I recently attended the Intersection; a one-day event held at Google’s HQ in Mountain View, California designed to bring together innovative thought leaders from the business world…

Matchbook Learning is excited to announce Eric Nadelstern, one of the country's leading educators, is joining our team as our Chief Academic Advisor.  Eric is a Professor of Practice…

As we head into the last week of school before Xmas break and look forward to spending time with our family and loved ones, the events that transpired this past week at Sandy Hook Elementary…

As more and more manufacturing is being done overseas in countries whose costs of labor are a fraction of Western labor pricing, and the world’s consumption is markedly shifting eastward…

India’s Datawind recently introduced a $35 tablet, the Aakash 2, complete with a 7.5 inch screen, Android operating system and Wi-Fi available for as little as $2/month.  BOOM! …

Matchbook Learning is mentioned here in Forbes magazine.