The Future Is "Now"
I have been fortunate to work with Ray McNulty, President of the Successful Practices Network, in various capacities over the years, and my current district has the privilege of doing so now as part of its involvement in the American Association of School Administrators' Learning 2025 Network, a collection of more than 100 school districts from across the country. I remember a dozen or so months back when Ray suggested that a better name for the term "The New Normal" should be "The New Now." His point being that, in today's world, with the pace of change as it is and the associated unpredictability that results, even when this pandemic is finally over, we will be hard pressed to define normalcy as we once did. Rather, we must become adept at navigating and thriving in a VUCA World --one that is Volatile, Unpredictable, Complex, and Ambiguous. In 1965 Gordon Moore predicted that number of transistors in a microchip would double every two years. Though scie