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Here we go again. This time it’s Rick Hess talking about the importance of school districts “unbundling” the many roles they have joined together over the past 100 years. Hess writes about his ideas regarding “unbundling” schools in today’s EducationWeek online, “Over the past year or two, there’s been a lot of talk about educational…

Two articles from The 74 online caught my attention this morning. Both demonstrate how broken the traditional public education system is and how it can’t be fixed. The first article, written by two researchers from the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, warns public school teachers not to quit their jobs because, if they do, they…

My brother dropped dead a few weeks ago from a massive heart attack. Although Todd wasn’t exactly successful in traditional K-12 education, he exemplified a lifelong learner who possessed a personalized, robust learning plan throughout his life. My brother was a funeral director, and he knew he wanted to be a funeral director by the…

Lifelong learners develop resilience capacity, whereas other learners don’t. I watched with interest when Lucy Hone presented her TED talk titled “3 Secrets of Resilient People.” It’s worth a look. According to Hone, resilient people, and resilient learners, possess three (I actually counted four during her presentation) skills others don’t have. The first of these…

I’ve written about “Portraits of a Graduate” before. “Portraits of a Graduate” is a vision that school districts create that describes what someone who finishes high school should be able to do. They are aspirational in that they talk about things like “being a good communicator, a lifelong learner, and a global citizen.” Although traditional…

I’m back, but no Friday News Roundup this week. June is always a slow news month when it comes to public education, schools, and learning, but I did read an article this week that piqued my interest about the importance of mentoring, no matter what professional pursuit you engage in. The article, appearing in EducationWeek…

Most traditional school districts hate open enrollment. Open enrollment invites change, and most traditional school districts hate change. Campus budgets are set based on the number of kids enrolled in a certain school. School attendance boundaries allow for each campus to predict what those budgets will look like each year. Allowing families to choose what…

It used to be teachers left traditional public schools to start their own charter schools. That’s how KIPP started, along with other high-performing, and low-performing for that matter, charters across the country. Classroom teachers, who became fed up with the dysfunctional, inequitable places called public schools, left the traditional system and created new learning organizations.…

It used to be teachers left traditional public schools to start their own charter schools. That’s how KIPP started, along with other high-performing, and low-performing for that matter, charters across the country. Classroom teachers, who became fed up with the dysfunctional, inequitable places called public schools, left the traditional system and created new learning organizations.…