If you are interested in the learner-centered movement, be sure to take a look at the work from Education Evolving, an organization from Minnesota committed to drawing on three strategic levers to advance the work: thought leadership, policy advocacy and educator networks. In the area of thought leadership, they have a Publications section on their website. […]
Archives for January 2020
Leadership Challenges Assumptions
In The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters, Peter Block pushes us to think about the importance of pursuing the why question before answering the how question. Think about it: in your learning environment, what is the ratio of why questions to how questions? I don’t have any research on this, but from my own experience, I would […]
Creating the Conditions for Authentic Learner Voice
If you’ve previously read this blog, you are aware that my colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I host a podcast (Shift Your Paradigm) that delves into learner-centered education broadly and learner-centered leadership more specifically. We are currently working through all of our interviews, sorting out themes and principles for learner-centered leadership. For me, one of the […]
How might we be radical?
From vocabulary.com: Radical If something is considered extremist or very different from anything that has come before it, call it radical. The noun, radical, comes from the Latin radix “root,” and in fact, radical and root are synonymous as technical terms in fields such as math and linguistics. In more everyday language, a radical is someone […]
Purpose of Education
For as long as I’ve been associated with K12 education (just about 50 years if you go back to when I started going to school), the focus has been dominated by a push model of content dissemination. The curriculum represents a body of knowledge/facts that we assume one needs to be successful in the world […]