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Are we going to change or run into the ground?

1/2/2018

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As I was wrapping up coffee mugs in newspaper this morning preparing for my kitchen to be torn out from damage from #Harvey an article in the Wall Street Journal from Dec. 20th caught my attention and distracted me from the task at hand. Packing up the cabinet can wait, I want to write about this article. How We'll Dine in 2018 by Elizabeth Dunn is all about how dining trends have and are changing. 

Dunn writes about a succussful restaurant, Perla in New York that found profits declining and the success that they had once easily attained waning.  Perla was known as a grand restaurant with complex dishes and pricey ingredients. The restaurants owner was quoted as saying "We had a couple of choices. We were either going to run Perla into the ground or pivot." The article goes on to explain that pivot is exactly what they did to meet the needs of their changing customers.

Dunn describes the new way of restaurants, "This new wave of restaurants is not defined merely by long, uninterrupted opening hours; diners and brasseries have those, too. They’re set apart by their genre-bending flexibility, the way they’re engineered to cater to those seeking everything from coffee klatsches to salads on the go to sit-down dinners. Their menus are flexible, too, and affordable enough to encourage multiple visits per week—yet sufficiently polished to appeal for an evening meal. They defy definition as cafes, fast-casuals, coffee shops or bars, but borrow aspects of many of those formats to sync up with the rhythms of contemporary life."
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As I read the article I couldn't stop thinking about our classrooms. Are we pivoting to meet the needs of the students that we have in front of us today or, are we expecting them to continue to come to a learning environment that was designed for information that was static and slow to change? 
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Take a minute to read the article and think about ways that you can possibly start a conversation about a pivot in your school or classroom.  Think about homework, grading, classroom procedures and daily schedules.  It all has to start somewhere!

Please leave a comment and share an example of a pivot you have seen in a school or a classroom that is helping meet the needs of today's students. 

Now back to packing up that cabinet.  😀
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