A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.
One goal for disruption in education could be the ongoing emergence of new ideas–new learning models, content, new strategies and thinking.
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and…
Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on…
While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
Shifts to create the classroom of the future include a shift from academic standards to learning networks and single modalities to blended.
Whether a formal test or an informal observation, the most important question every assessment should answer is, ‘What now?’