Tag: Terry Heick

Communities don’t understand teaching and learning? Education doesn’t know what communities really need? This seems like an opportunity.

This doesn’t mean we won’t teach math or reading in the future. However, we might reframe what we teach and how and…

‘Believing in students’ isn’t enough–they have to have sufficient knowledge or experience with ideas and skills to ‘do well in school.’

In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.

If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.

New ideas, often in the shape of ‘fads,’ are, at best, distractions. It just might be that education already has more than…

If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.