Tag: students

“Portraits of a Graduate” has again become a buzz word in our public education world. The Texas district I worked in created a “portrait” back in the 1990’s. The frustration at that time was that most of the “pieces of the portrait” were not backed up with the coursework students were asked to take throughout…

Last fall, Will Richardson posted an interesting article on “best practice.” Here’s what he had to say: “I remember when I was teaching, my supervisor was always in search of ‘best practices.’ We would research them from other schools. We would share them within our departments and, sometimes, school-wide. We worked to create them.” “What…

On November 14, 2022, founders of Black-led pods and microschools and scholars who study Black self-determination in education gathered for a virtual event, sponsored by CRPE, an organization committed to reinvent public education in this country. The lively conversation between panelists Robert Harvey, Maxine McKinney de Royston, Janelle Wood, and Lakisha Young and moderator Chris…

Recently, I participated in an online workshop hosted by the New Hampshire Learning Initiative focused on “Grading for Equity and Deeper Learning.” In their post-workshop post, the New Hampshire Learning Initiative shared the following: “In our post-COVID world, New Hampshire educators in schools around the state have been heavily engaged in conversations over the need…

There isn’t enough time devoted to improving reading and writing skills with our traditional public school system. I saw it time and time again on the high school level when students struggled with content because they didn’t have the required reading and writing skills to master the assigned curriculum. Recently, Stephen Sawchuk from EducationWeek online…

All learners should have purpose. Sadly, many young learners inside our traditional school system can’t find their purpose. Some lose it while spending years traveling to and from classes that don’t matter to them. Last fall, Tom Vander Ark wrote an article for Getting Smart online titled “Purpose Powered Education”. Vander Ark writes, “’What if…

Last fall Trace Pickering wrote an article for Getting Smart online titled “Students Are Calling BS on High School and Opportunity Knocks”. I thought it would be a good thing to take a look at what some of America’s high schoolers are now saying about their present day learning experiences. Pickering writes, “Many students in…

Is it time for venture studios to enter the learning world? In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Steve Blank, an adjunct professor at Stanford University, a senior fellow at Columbia University, and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, explained what a venture studio does. According to Blank, “In the last two decades,…