Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
As family members outside of school and as learners by day in our schools? While this article from the Washington Post focuses on parenting, I couldn’t help but think about how we over-control kids in school---robbing them of valuable agency … [Continue reading]
Welcome to the final installment in the #60DayChallenge! Thanks to all who have actively participated by commenting and engaging in dialog and those that chose to share a reaction or just lurk in the background. I hope your thinking has been … [Continue reading]
Having spent several decades in formal and informal leadership roles, I’ve been reflecting on who I am as a leader and what I value as I work to transform schooling. I’ve come to realize that much of who I am as a leader and someone who is driven … [Continue reading]
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel like a solitary voice in a crowd of standardization when I have conversations with people about transforming schooling to be more human-centered. On a recent Knowledge Project podcast, host Shane … [Continue reading]
I teach a college course titled Teacher as Inquirer. Throughout the course we experience the conditions of being a better educational practitioner through inquiry into our own practice and the act of helping our learners be better inquirers. One … [Continue reading]
We’ve had a number of posts on connected topics such as the purpose of schooling and challenging the assumptions behind why we do what we do in the current system of schooling. If you or your colleagues are feeling challenged to develop answers to … [Continue reading]
I just watched this conversation with Gary Stager. Appreciated the last three minutes… “purposes of schooling worth mentioning.” Introduce children to things they don’t yet know they love. Model, nurture and sustain democracy -- through our … [Continue reading]
I have to admit, when I use the word futurist, I feel like people conjure up images of someone with a crystal ball predicting what’s in our future. 🔮 Education Reimagined posted an interview with two educators who work in the fields of foresight … [Continue reading]
This was the question posed in a 2018 article by historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, What kids need to learn to succeed in 2050: The art of reinvention will be the most critical skill of this century. Nobody can predict the future. But we can … [Continue reading]
“We’ve always done it that way!” Why do we do what we do in education? Standardized tests 1:1 technology Grade levels by age Cursive writing Textbooks Standards Homework Honor Roll Discrete subjects Let’s take it … [Continue reading]