Michael Horn

2 days ago | michaelbhorn.substack.com | Michael Horn |Jean Eddy

Michael: Welcome to Youth Career Readiness, the One Question Podcast where we talk to people across careers about their professional journeys and what advice they would offer us to help all middle and high schoolers explore, experiment with, and discover careers. Jean, if you were a Notre Dame football fan, as I was in the 1980s, then Lou Holtz was your guy. He was the head coach, charismatic, and good. His 12-0 1988 Notre Dame team was the consensus national champion.

1 week ago | michaelbhorn.substack.com | Michael Horn

A brief note: I’m going to slow the pace of publication here just for the next couple weeks while I’m engaged in a board meeting for Imagine Worldwide for a few days (if you don’t know them, check out the website; the work the team there is doing in Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and more is the most exciting thing I’ve seen up-close in education). On to the update…Jeff Selingo and I welcomed Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Jack Stripling to our podcast.

2 weeks ago | michaelbhorn.substack.com | Michael Horn

Jeff Selingo and I teamed up to author our first white paper together. It’s part 1 of a 5-part series on culture that Jeff is doing and that is sponsored by Amazon Web Services. In this first installment, we explore how campus leaders should develop a systematic approach to understanding their institution’s cultural DNA before they even begin seeking to transform it.

2 weeks ago | michaelbhorn.substack.com | Michael Horn

Lukas Barwinski-Brown, CEO of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, joined me on this episode. For those who don’t know, Lang Lang stands apart as one of the premier pianists in the world. Lukas shared his unexpected journey to leading the foundation and discussed its mission to ensure that music education is accessible to all children, regardless of their background.

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Michael Horn

As Robert Pondiscio observed recently, K–12 schools have largely been spared disruptive innovation of the sort that has transformed everything from retail to consumer package goods, telecommunications, computing, steel, newspapers, and more. Yes, there have been disruptive innovations in how students learn. Namely in the form factor. Consider that even just 15 years ago the dominant curriculum companies were clear: McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). All textbook companies.