Tag: students

What if all learning depended on the field trip? You remember field trips. Those glorious events where you were able to escape from your mundane classroom and experience the world. I didn’t get to go on a lot of them, but when I was part of a field trip, learning was engaging, exciting, and fun.…

Kids can’t help where they’re born. One youngster starts kindergarten (hopefully pre-K) in an elementary that feeds into a high-performing middle school and high school, while another, sometimes in a house across the street, is destined to go to low-performing schools throughout the K-12 career. Just like individual schools differ in their effectiveness, school districts…

Parents who are unhappy with their public school’s performance can take the following actions to provide a better learning experience for their children: Recently, Education Reimagined shared an interview with Olena Starchuk and Mike Russell, two Canadian parents who have chosen to build their children’s learning plans outside of traditional public school. Both parents have…

Most of us focus on how vouchers will help public school parents pay for private school, but there’s another option out there in the learning stratosphere – microschools. Why shouldn’t a single mom with three children have the option to send her kids to a well-run microschool instead of the traditional private? Last week, The…

America’s public school system has a problem with listening to student voice. Most schools form student input groups, like student councils, class officers, and other student-led organizations, but don’t really listen to what those groups have to say about what they are learning, how they are learning, and what should be done when they aren’t…

A friend of mine wrote this piece recently. He writes, “In my principalship days, the role was incredibly challenging. After leading a small high school that I helped found, I became the principal of a new and very large comprehensive high school. I served for three years, and then it all caught up to me.…

Sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know. But just like we want our young learners to be lifelong pursuers of knowledge and skill, as adult learning leaders, we must demonstrate the drive to learn from our past so it informs our future. Take for example the article Sarah Ruth Morris wrote for EducationWeek online…