• Did Garehime Elementary School inspire you to rethink the ABCs of learning? Spend an hour at a local school talking to students about busines and real-world leadership lessons. Take note: The National Center for Education Statistics provides a complete school directory . Check out a virtual library of lesson plans for useful learning tools. You can search for curriculum ideas by subject and grade level at The Gateway . Refer to Community Updates for an education handbook on best practices in classrooms nationwide. The U.S. Department of Education offers a roundup of education headlines and resources. Talk to students about your careers. A sixth-grader wants to know: What does a consultant do?
• Did John Ellis shake up your thoughts about cyber ways? Make your next CoF meeting a radical mind meld to create your own list of digital rules. Show up prepared to discuss the article's eight points and your POV. Pregame? See what other people have to say on the FC bulletin board, and then consider some relevant ''key learnings'' from Round Zero, where the tech-minded in Silicon Valley gather every month. For related articles, refer to Ernst & Young's Perspectives on Business Innovation.Keep the actual meeting on track by adding structure to the conversation. ''Time-box'' topics by allotting 15 minutes to every rule, and then passing the talking stick to the next point. Take a FC short-course refresher on useful meeting tactics. Remember: Tap into the collective mind to turn blue-sky ideas into strategic cyber rules.

Christine Canabou contributed this month's Next Steps.

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