Tag: schools

Friday will be the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. But as The 74 online reported last week, our public schools are more segregated today than 30 years ago. Why is…

One of the exceptional moments I saw at our personalized learning lab school years ago was when a group of learners became a team of learners. When that happened, individual learning stopped for the most part and collective learning began. It’s one of the reasons I believe 90% of the young learners gained 4 ½…

Here’s an excerpt from the latest “we can change schools for the better” pitch. It’s written by Dr. Tyler Thigpen, Academic Director of the Leading School Transformation program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and head of The Forest School: An Acton Academy and Institute for Self Directed Learning. Thigpen writes, ……

I’m a historian by training. I graduated with a degree in history from the University of Iowa while researching aspects of the Cold War. I earned an advanced degree from the University of Houston researching colonial, Revolutionary, and Constitutional history. My love of history recently brought me to a place where I’ve become more and…

Yesterday, I shared some of Stacey Childress’s “Rethinking School,” an article first published in the Harvard Business Review in March of 2012. Today, I thought it would be nice to share more of what Childress was thinking about our traditional K-12 system, especially the diagnosis of what the current reality looked like over 10 years…

I’m always looking for ways to offer equitable learning opportunities to kids. It’s plain to see that our traditional K-12 system hasn’t offered that opportunity to so many of our young learners, especially those who are black, brown, and poor. That’s why I read with interest recently an article posted on Getting Smart online titled…

Most traditional schools are territorial places. Teachers take care of their own classrooms, and it’s a rarity to see them deeply collaborate when it comes to answering three questions: What do we want our kids to learn? How will we know that they learned it? And, what will we do when they don’t learn it?…

Back in 2019, Work Life (an Atlassian online newsletter) asked Daniel Pink, author of “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,” five questions about motivation, and how motivation makes the difference when it comes to human performance – including learning. Here are excerpts from that interview: … Work Life: “Do you believe in the…