Tag: Business

The Educator Entrepreneur: Don’t Bring a Whiteboard Marker to a Knife Fight – 17 Prescriptions for a Better Life

Sep 4, 2020

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, Executive Education, Export Education, Indigenous education, International education, Lean education, NCALNE (Educator), The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

Education is a tough business to work in. And that’s true if you are a teacher, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about how to survive and hopefully thrive in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
I want to learn more about Taiwan

Aug 2, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, Taiwan

Last year I travelled to Taiwan with a group of Māori businesses. I had a fantastic time and learned a lot about the connection between indigenous Taiwanese tribal groups and NZ Māori. Check out some of the photos.
Business Model Generation

Apr 1, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Book review, Books, business, Business improvement, Business model generation, Education

What is a business model? How do I create, design or fix a business model?
Did you know that the World Indigenous Business Forum was in Rotorua NZ recently?

Nov 17, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Aotearoa, business, Education, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, NZ

That was the WORLD Indigenous Business Forum… As in the whole world. And it just happened to be in Rotorua, New Zealand last month. I heard about it by accident. By word of mouth. And I got to hang out there for an afternoon and meet a delegation from the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP)…
How do you integrate indigenous cultural values and worldview with business and education?

Nov 2, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Export Education, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, International education, Maori, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Taiwan

In Aotearoa New Zealand, we have been working hard to strengthen vocational training, especially for our indigenous Māori groups as well as Pacific Peoples. This includes a focus on both young people and adults. And by “we” I mean the collective we. This “we” includes government agencies involved in funding and quality assurance, independent research…
How do you think like an entrepreneur when you work in education?

Sep 1, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

Excerpt from new eBook out shortly Education is a tough business to work in. And that holds true if you are a tutor, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Or a business owner…. Or all of the above like me. I’m pretty excited about what I do, but some days I can’t understand…
My first business was a failure… Here are five things it taught me

Mar 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in business, Education, edupreneur, entrepreneur, fail, failure

Thinking entrepreneurially isn’t something that happened instantly for me. In fact, it kind of happened by accident. I think I was dragged kicking and screaming into the business world. I started my professional life in education teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in both New Zealand and Japan. It turned out that this…
The Rise of The Educator Entrepreneur

Jan 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

Education is a tough business to work in. That holds true if you are a tutor, trainer, an educator of some kind, or a business owner. Or all of the above like me. I think a lot about what I need to do to survive and thrive in the rapidly changing educational landscape. The answer,…
How does ALEC’s business model work?

May 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 2015, 21204, Advertising, ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Compliance, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, NCALNE, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications

ALEC’s business model is something that we have given a significant amount of thought to, especially in recent years. As a government-funded training organisation we are fortunate to have access to a dedicated funding stream for our main education product, the National Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace) – otherwise known as the…
Is it possible to apply lean thinking and lean methodology to adult education and teaching?

Nov 14, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Book review, Embed literacy and numeracy, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Uncategorized

I’m not sure if this works or not, but I’m interested in the idea of applying the principles of Lean Thinking and Lean Manufacturing to adult teaching, and to adult literacy and numeracy education in particular which is my field. I’m not an expert on Lean, but I have read and listened to bits and…