Hi Carina. This is a remarkable finding - Teachers deserve professional respect, are most effective when they collaborate as learners, and need ways to advance without leaving the classroom. Thank you for all that you do!
Great article Carina. Given the issues of control (noted above) that may make this approach difficult for some funders, do you have any guidance for investment developers (organizations in the field or program officers at foundations) on how to be effective in “pitching” these types of investments to the investment decision-makers (Foundation boards or managers with approval authority)?
I just left Hahrie Han’s keynote on social transformation at the Carnegie Networked Improvement conference. Her book How Organizations Develop Activists is a must read! A frame that might be helpful is to think about “bottom up change” v “top down” and to think about social transformation and not tool adoption. She opened with a powerful statement that I think relevant to my article: “Catalytic change happens not when we sell people products they already want but instead when we transform what people think is possible.” Isn’t that what we seek to do?
Carina - great article! We’re creating a platform for just the contagion you talk about, build on the underlying principles of reducing barriers to serendipity, accelerating the spread of solutions, and increasing the density of high value interactions. Would be great to chat sometime!
Hi Carina—please take a look at our website (http://www.sphaera.world), and the “front door” into the platform at (https://resilience-exchange.sphaera.world). I’m at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and look forward to continuing our conversation.
Hi Carina, may I quote you and link to this article please on a new social startup which is just about to launch called Hikipedia? This is very good paper which exactly and succinctly explains the concept and forces at work. Well done with this. Great article.
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BY Carina Wong
ON March 18, 2016 11:06 AM
Excited to hear your thoughts….
BY Cheryl Stephens
ON March 20, 2016 07:12 PM
Hi Carina
I am excited by your student success focussed work and would like to discuss further with you
BY Ryan Makhani
ON March 23, 2016 01:25 PM
Hi Carina. This is a remarkable finding - Teachers deserve professional respect, are most effective when they collaborate as learners, and need ways to advance without leaving the classroom. Thank you for all that you do!
BY Patrick Methvin
ON March 23, 2016 07:51 PM
Great article Carina. Given the issues of control (noted above) that may make this approach difficult for some funders, do you have any guidance for investment developers (organizations in the field or program officers at foundations) on how to be effective in “pitching” these types of investments to the investment decision-makers (Foundation boards or managers with approval authority)?
BY Carina Wong
ON March 24, 2016 01:03 PM
I just left Hahrie Han’s keynote on social transformation at the Carnegie Networked Improvement conference. Her book How Organizations Develop Activists is a must read! A frame that might be helpful is to think about “bottom up change” v “top down” and to think about social transformation and not tool adoption. She opened with a powerful statement that I think relevant to my article: “Catalytic change happens not when we sell people products they already want but instead when we transform what people think is possible.” Isn’t that what we seek to do?
BY Astrid Scholz
ON March 24, 2016 03:14 PM
Carina - great article! We’re creating a platform for just the contagion you talk about, build on the underlying principles of reducing barriers to serendipity, accelerating the spread of solutions, and increasing the density of high value interactions. Would be great to chat sometime!
BY carina wong
ON March 24, 2016 04:43 PM
Happy to talk! Send me a link to your work and an email address and we can keep the conversation going…
BY Astrid Scholz
ON March 24, 2016 05:59 PM
Hi Carina—please take a look at our website (http://www.sphaera.world), and the “front door” into the platform at (https://resilience-exchange.sphaera.world). I’m at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and look forward to continuing our conversation.
BY Matt Crockett
ON July 1, 2017 12:25 AM
Hi Carina, may I quote you and link to this article please on a new social startup which is just about to launch called Hikipedia? This is very good paper which exactly and succinctly explains the concept and forces at work. Well done with this. Great article.