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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.
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Jan 22, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Personal development, Professional Development, Self development, Technology

Here’s a broad and largely unsupported generalisation for 2013 moving forward: All education businesses (whether for profit or not) are now education technology businesses. Whether we (or they) like it or not. Here’s another one: Because most teachers and trainers spend most of their time doing the busy work of teaching and training they don’t…