Mark Biddle

Thanks for these good thoughts and comments. The notion of having a “toolkit” may be missing it’s own point. I confess that I have used the term often to help persons address choose which tools to use in a difficult situation. However, a new thought on the toolkit comes from an article on fixed mindsets that suggests an image of having a “repertoire of approaches” http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html. Reaching further into this thought it seems that the repertoire begins with the person asking themselves about their approach and even why they want to choose a specific tool. Questions that give me pause as I think about the approach to use (rather than grasping the tool) were shared by Jennifer Garvey Berger. What do I expectg not to find? How could I attend to the unexpected? What might I be discounting or explaining away too quickly? and What would happen if I shifted one or more of my core assumptions on an issue, just as an experiment?

Mark Biddle