Why All Ed Reform Fails
In ed reform, we train our sights on the wrong targets, hoping to improve curriculum, assessment & schools via plans, policy & standards.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Digital Learning Is Just Different
Digital learning is different than non-digital learning from the moment an experience starts. It’s not better or worse–just different.
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What If Every Teacher Tweeted?
Like every teacher must translate their knowledge and personality into a kind of “voice” and personality, it’s not much different on twitter.
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A(n Insufficent) Reading List To Help Students Begin To Grapple With Race
I thought it might be useful to share a reading list that might help students begin to grapple and make sense of race relations in the US.
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Is It Time For Dumb Goals In Education?
This reductive approach extends to industrialized practices of grouping, scheduling, and packaging of students, curriculum, & performance.
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Let’s Be Honest: Education Technology Has Been Underwhelming So Far
Education Technology Has Been Underwhelming So Far by Terry Heick At one point, email seemed like magic. And here we are, nearly 30 years after its inception, still watching the magic act but numb to what it’s done to communication. It’s hard not to take technology for granted–especially digital technology, a field that makes a…
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Transforming Education Starts In Your Classroom
Want To Transform Education? Start In Your Classroom. by Terry Heick If it’s a standards-based, outcomes-based, institutionally-centered (and nationally participative) game we want, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination than Understanding by Design units (i.e., Wiggins) anchored around power standards (e.g., Strong, Silver, Perini, Dufour) that are then delivered through differentiated instruction (i.e.,…
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21st Century Work: Career-Readiness Isn’t What It Used To Be
21st Century Work: Career-Readiness Isn’t What It Used To Be by Terry Heick The way we think about work is changing. Thinking of jobs, careers, and pay is–by some–being replaced with the idea of work, relationships, and meaning. Technology and the resulting connectivity are a part of this. In the 21st century, we all have…
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The Paradox Of The Modern Teacher
23 propositions in an attempt to etch out the paradox of the modern teacher.
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What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students?
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
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Bullet Proof Blankets For School Shootings Are A Thing
Bullet Proof Blankets For School Shootings Are A Thing by Terry Heick There is a market for bullet proof–or rather, bullet resistant–blankets to cover children with. I’m incapable of contextualizing this, so I’m just going to share some information and links for further reading, then move on before I take off running and never stop,…
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Why It Can Seem That Parents Don’t Care
As long as communities have no voice in, or capacity to understand, curriculum, their interaction with schools will always be broken.
