Thursday, June 14, 2012
Entreprenurial Montessori Violinist
Must be the violin case that gives her away: Diana Cohen is a Mafioso; a certified member of the Montessori Mafia -- so named by Peter Sims in his Wall Street Journal article of a year ago. As Sims reported, "The Montessori Mafia showed up in an extensive, six-year study about the way creative business executives think."
Cohen is not a business executive exactly. She is first and foremost a violinist--the concertmaster of the Richmond Symphony in Virginia. So she is professionally creative. She is also " the mastermind behind ChamberFest Cleveland, a festival of chamber music that will present its inaugural season Wednesday, June 27, through Sunday, July 1, at several venues."
Cohen models creative entrepreneurial behavior: she had an idea and ran with it; she had the vision, the energy, the organizational skills and the willingness to do what she had never done before. She was willing to risk failure. And she is making a cultural impact on the city where she grew up: Cleveland, Ohio; where she attended Ruffing Montessori School. (full disclosure: one of my former students -- a great kid!)
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Perfect!
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Labels:
excellence,
fear of failure,
Harriet Braiker,
perfectionism
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
“They never get asked to create anything,”
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Labels:
active learning,
doing,
making,
passive learning,
test-based education,
tests
Monday, June 4, 2012
All the City's a Classroom
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soulcraft
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