ELSA PARTNERS WITH NOTOSH
Sometimes it's the haystack you need to find, not the needle.
Schools expend so much effort on creating strategy, and then wonder how it might have more impact. Too often, it’s a case of lots of thunder, no rain. At NoTosh, we have rethought every aspect of strategy design. When we work with some of the world’s leading schools on their strategy, we see the process itself creating as much change as the end product of strategy itself. We invite you to Paris for a special Strategy Garage, a chance for leadership teams, their Boards and innovators from schools to get away from business as usual, and start thinking differently:
• Learn how to use tools that change the way you communicate your objectives;
• Experience a different way to design a new strategy;
• Work out how to involve the community in designing the future of your school, without it becoming a free-for-all.
We take whatever challenge you’re working on right now, and look at it with you through many lenses. This is the NoTosh Design Thinking Process . Ewan McIntosh, NoTosh’s founder, will work with ELSA member schools to approach strategy-building like they’ve never done it before whether it’s a whole-school strategy, a plan for innovation involving a few teachers, or learning how to refresh existing strategy. And, if you’re really serious about thinking differently in your strategy, or beyond in other areas of your school’s development, ELSA members attending this workshop will be entitled to a 15% discount on future development projects undertaken with NoTosh - just let us know before January 10, 2017, to lock in your exclusive discount.
• Learn how to use tools that change the way you communicate your objectives;
• Experience a different way to design a new strategy;
• Work out how to involve the community in designing the future of your school, without it becoming a free-for-all.
We take whatever challenge you’re working on right now, and look at it with you through many lenses. This is the NoTosh Design Thinking Process . Ewan McIntosh, NoTosh’s founder, will work with ELSA member schools to approach strategy-building like they’ve never done it before whether it’s a whole-school strategy, a plan for innovation involving a few teachers, or learning how to refresh existing strategy. And, if you’re really serious about thinking differently in your strategy, or beyond in other areas of your school’s development, ELSA members attending this workshop will be entitled to a 15% discount on future development projects undertaken with NoTosh - just let us know before January 10, 2017, to lock in your exclusive discount.
Ewan McIntosh
Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, Ewan is the passionate and energising tour de force behind NoTosh. A highly-regarded keynote speaker at events around the world, he’s also the author of How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen and regularly writes about learning on his blog edu.blogs.com.
“As a French and German high school teacher in Scotland back in the 1990s, I wanted to find new ways to help students engage with my subjects – I felt strongly that technology was both critical to this and underused in the classroom, so my classes were among the first in Europe to podcast and blog as part of their daily learning.
"From here, it was a reasonably logical step to become National Advisor on Learning and Technology Futures for the Scottish Government... although joining Channel 4 as their Digital Commissioner in 2008 was a step in a different direction. But it was at Channel 4 that I became fascinated by the strategies and tactics that my creative colleagues used to create imaginative and truly engaging digital services for young people. Could I take this insight and make it work in an education setting? Yes, I reckoned I could... and that’s how NoTosh came about.”
“As a French and German high school teacher in Scotland back in the 1990s, I wanted to find new ways to help students engage with my subjects – I felt strongly that technology was both critical to this and underused in the classroom, so my classes were among the first in Europe to podcast and blog as part of their daily learning.
"From here, it was a reasonably logical step to become National Advisor on Learning and Technology Futures for the Scottish Government... although joining Channel 4 as their Digital Commissioner in 2008 was a step in a different direction. But it was at Channel 4 that I became fascinated by the strategies and tactics that my creative colleagues used to create imaginative and truly engaging digital services for young people. Could I take this insight and make it work in an education setting? Yes, I reckoned I could... and that’s how NoTosh came about.”
