Tag: parents
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Language Matters. It Matters A Lot.
While sitting on the dock at the lake last week, I read a fascinating article written by Kelly Young, President and Founder of Education Reimagined (ER.) Education Reimagined is a Washington D.C.-based group attempting to catalyze the invention of a new public education system. I’ve been somewhat critical in the past of Education Reimagined and…
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The Errors of Well-Intentioned Adults (in Indiana)
I’m back after some time at the lake – tanned, rested, and ready. While away, I saw an article in The 74 titled “Allies Rally Behind Indiana NAACP’s Black Student Achievement Proposal.” The 74’s Jo Napolitano reported that: “Four months after the NAACP State Conference released an aggressive plan to close deep and persistent gaps…
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It’s Time to Pick It Up a Bit
Earlier this summer, Kelly Young, President and Founder of Education Reimagined, shared her thoughts on what infrastructure is needed to enable learner-centered ecosystems to thrive. In her article, Young writes: “Luckily, there are pieces of this infrastructure already out there, whether they are being deployed in a single learner-centered environment, a micro-school, or in an…
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The Only Thing We Have to Fear…
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 Change is hard inside schools. It’s easier to keep doing the same things…
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Are We Starting a School Year or a Learning Year?
School starts here in Iowa this week, so an EducationWeek article, written by Tyrone C. Howard and published on August 12, 2022, caught my eye. Dr. Howard is a professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the university’s Center for the Transformation of Schools. Howard is also president-elect…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday! Time for the news roundup. Poll: Support for Schools Shook by Pandemic (The 74) Linda Jacobson from The 74 reported this week: “The historically positive views toward public schools took a hit during the pandemic, according to pool results released Tuesday.” “In 2019, 60% of Americans graded their schools an A or a…
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To Improve Learning, the Energy of Money Has to Change
This past week I came across an article printed by the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “To End Homelessness, the Energy of Money Must Change.” I usually write about education and learning, but stay with me here as we use homelessness to inform us how improving learning for our young people could improve. Daniel Heimpel,…
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Habits of Mind Drive Success
This is a Best of the Best article, originally posted by The Education Game back in 2021. The topic is a good one, especially since our kids are headed back to school this month. Enjoy! In most traditional schools, academic work begins the first day of instruction. Teachers are seen as “on task” if they…
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How Hard Is It to Change a High School?
I’ve written about the personalized learning lab school we launched while I served as the executive director of a Houston-based educational non-profit. In 2015, our lab school partnered with a Houston area school district to apply for a XQ Super School grant. The hope was to take what we were learning in our lab school…
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What if The Smithsonian Ran Public Education?
A few weeks ago, I participated in an online conference hosted by The Smithsonian, their National Education Summit. It was two days of deep, exploratory learning for both young and adult learners. When I reviewed some of the session titles, it became apparent to me that these learning sessions were a bit different than most…
A Better Path to Learning 