Monday+Keynote

__Monday's Keynote Speaker:__


 * < **Sir Ken Robinson** ||
 * < **Finding Your Passion Changes Everything** ||
 * < [[image:http://www.peteandc.org/images/SirKenRobinson.jpg align="left"]]What does it take to achieve personal success and feel like you are in your element? World-renowned innovator Sir Ken Robinson argues that it is not only natural talent that drives personal success, but rather a delicate interplay among talent, passion, attitude and opportunity that brings people to achieve their highest levels of success and lead lives of meaning and purpose. Based on his newly released and highly acclaimed book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Robinson takes audiences on a compelling tour of what can happen in all our lives when passion and talent meet. He draws on the personal stories of high achievers in many fields, including Sir Paul McCartney, Arianna Huffington, Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), Meg Ryan and renowned physicist Richard Feynman. With a wry sense of humor, Sir Ken helps audiences understand: * What it takes to find “The Element” in our own lives
 * Why age and occupation are no barrier
 * How to enhance creativity and innovation in both personal and professional settings
 * How focusing on “The Element” is an essential strategy in transforming education, business and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century ||

Working from passion Think differently about human talent

Schools kill creativity.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" -- Lincoln As our case is new, we must think anew, and act anew. We must disethral ourselves from old ideas. They make it difficult for us to do what we need to do.

Pensky's digital immigrants vs. natives. Students don't wear wristwatches.

20 years ago, there were 4 electronc products. TV, radio, record players, telephones.. Now there are 20 +.

Appeared on Huckabee last night. Discussed ... leading health problems have moved from malnutrition to obesity. Send to M.Meyer: []

Fast food model vs. mission model

"To be in your element, you have to love it."

Since NCLB, something like 80% of schools have cut arts programs. Standardized testing can not be the entire focus of professional development. "There is no school anywhere in the world that is better than its teachers." Great schools liberate the creative potential of their teachers. Not linear, organic.