Opinions and Musings
Cambio
It's been three months since I've said my token goodbyes to some very good friends from my old work. I've finally quit the old job after spending nearly a decade associated with them. It seems like I'm well on my way dissociating myself from education too. It's been...
Aftermath
Nagising ako kahapon ng madaling araw. Tiningnan ko ang telepono at nakitang umaapaw ang Facebook at Twitter ng notifications. Puno ng posts at tweets mula sa mga kaibigan at dating propesor. Nasusunog ang Faculty Center at mukhang malubha. Tila matutupok at magiging...
Psychological safety
Google shared "The five keys to a successful Google team." I love reading these kinds of secret sauce that they claim make such organizations successful. Now, what's supposed to be done with these kinds of information is to process them, reflect, see what may apply to...
Failing critical discourse
All that noise about Pacquiao probably wouldn't die soon. Too bad in the midst of all of this, a lot is happening beyond a boxer's unenlightened comments and the hate it stirred. In my circle of literary people, here's what has happened just in the past couple of...
Bahala na
Any manager who doesn't have a clear objective (or fail to communicate one) is destined for disappointment. It is critical to have a mutual understanding of expectations between team members when dealing with tasks. Some so-called managers don't even bother providing...
Attack ka muna
We, old foggies, were transferred out to new assignments. That left some leadership void that (we are glad) our best people filled in. (I'd write about the Peter Principle some other time.) While part of letting your wards blossom is giving them space, we're still...
Job hunting for the young ‘uns
So I'm helping out with recruitment and boy, do I really feel old(er). At this point, I am already an elder among young 'uns at the office. I could really feel the generation thing happening as my kumpare, Kim, and I often share our peeves with managing "kids these...
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I recently started following the UAAP men's basketball. I mainly have lost interest in it due to the fact that UP has been losing and that I have been critical of the lack of coverage of the other sports. But what can you do when you live in a basketball country? What...
KPUP simplified
After a couple of takes (Grade Conscious, Measuring What?) on how DepEd plans to assess learning in the new K-12 system, they've gone and revised the assessment framework yet again. DepEd Order 8 Series 2015 provides the details on the new framework. The underlying...