A day-long meeting July 16th
Roger Putzel
Greetings, CLASSROOM-AS-ORGANIZATION/XB colleagues. Come to
A Day-long CLASSROOM-AS-ORGANIZATION-XB Conference July 16th, 2022
(Elyssebeth Leigh will be visiting from Australia; I want to seize the opportunity.)
Exciting stuff is happening in our little classroom-as-organization world. Others have shared and will keep doing so; here’s what I know:
· Matt VanSchenkhof at Western Kentucky U. has applied for a small grant to rewrite the administrative shell.
· I visited David Alofsin, who has been running XB as a year-long course for high school kids and is innovating like crazy. Get this: David had a student (Lief) so able that he made him Junior Senior Manager. Then, facing the perpetual (environmental) problem of spring fever, he polled the class and found that they considered Lief too demanding and wanted someone else. So David whacked ‘em: after explaining to Lief that he had performed just fine, David fired him, installed the other guy, and let the class reap what it had sowed. Thoroughly impressed, I told David he was acting with real authority, like a tennis player putting his body into a serve. He is unafraid to just see what happens.
· James Lapalme is running a class in Montreal in French (École de technologie supérieur) entirely on-line from beginning to end.
· XB continues to run at UCMO where several profs now have taught it and St. Michael’s where Paul Olsen is running it.
I would appreciate reports from other venues that have previously run classroom-as-organization classes, especially Western New England and George Fox. What’s going on?
Elyssebeth will be attending the ISAGA conference in Boston and will be coming up to Vermont on the 15th of July with Laurie Levesque and perhaps Laurie’s husband Thom, who uses the classroom-as-organization approach at a charter high school. I want to build Elyssebeth’s visit into an informal, day-long get-together for anybody who can make it. We’ll work during the day here in Jericho, VT, Saturday, July 16th and continue into the evening.
SO: anyone able to come, please let me know. If you know someone appropriate who is not on this list, pass the invitation on.
We have a lot to share.
Roger
Stacie Chappell
Hi Roger (and the whole XB gang) – Very exciting that you are planning a get together. I will not be able to join you but wish you all a wonderful gathering. I am still in an intensive administrative position, so not in the classroom much. However, I did facilitate a whole day faculty retreat yesterday – which was a little like a CAO. I continue to enjoy working on CAO research with Debby Thomas. We have been working on a short article with Ray Luechtefeld over the last year – about moving CAO online. Fingers crossed it gets through the review stage this time.
Otherwise, sending everyone wishes for a safe and enjoyable season ahead (summer for those of us in the North and winter for those in the Southern Hemisphere).
Take care everyone!
Stacie
Stacie Chappell
Associate Dean, Graduate Programs Office
Faculty of Management
Vancouver Island University
Phone: 250.619.2805
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Debby Thomas
Hi all,
Your gathering looks fun. Due to my summer responsibilities I unfortunately won’t be able to attend. At GFU we are teaching CAO, although we use the model Stacie and David and I presented in our book which is a slightly different version than XB. Currently we are teaching it:
- In the UG OB course, the capstone for management. Although I don’t teach this class anymore, I’ve just hired someone who is willing to be trained in CAO and give it a try for next year.
- In our doctoral OB class. I created a DBA format for this course and taught it once, last year one of my professors picked up on it and taught the course in this format as well. Some students said it was the best course in the program!
- We have thought about doing our MBA in CAO format, but haven’t taken the plunge yet. We completely re-worked the whole program last year and have many new professors this year. Maybe one of them will become interested in this project.
- I run a doctoral dissertation writing circle that meets monthly based on a CAO format as well. I’ve been doing this for years and its popular with our DBA students since it offers a sense of community and engagement in a process that is often lonely and isolated.
So as you can see, CAO is well entrenched at GFU and will be as long as I’m here. Thank you Rodger for taking time with me in my early days to get me trained and sorted out!
Stacie and I continue to (slowly) produce research in this area as well.
I’ll miss you all at the gathering!
Debby Thomas, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Business
George Fox University
414 N. Meridian Street #6252
Newberg, Oregon 97132
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