Deficit thinking lies at the heart of a typical school design.
Unless a student always gets perfect scores, she is technically “deficient.” Ranking and ordering students …
Read More(posts from April 2009 through May 2017 can be found at Teaching Excellence)
Deficit thinking lies at the heart of a typical school design.
Unless a student always gets perfect scores, she is technically “deficient.” Ranking and ordering students …
Read MoreWith reads from Twitter, The Atlantic, and the New York Times …
Read MoreWhat if the primary purpose of school were to form explorers rather than true believers?
How might we design learning experiences to help students to practice solving unknown problems with unknown solutions? …
Read MoreJohn Hagel chairs Deloitte’s “Center for the Edge,” a research organization whose purpose is “to identify emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda, but should be, and to do the research required …
Read MoreWith reads from The Mastery School of Hawken, the Great Schools Partnership, and Medium …
Read MoreWhat if we replace the mechanical-industrial notion of “wasting time” with a biolocal / ecological notion of “seeds and sparks”? …
Read MoreClaire Stoneman, a British educator, recently wrote a “warning” about curriculum that resonates with the “knowledge-rich” movement in the US …
Read MoreWith reads from the New Yorker, the reDesign blog and the Philadelphia Inquirer …
Read MoreWhat if school were organized around helping students to be their best, not the best? …
Read MoreThe New York Times recently ran a letter to The Ethicist titled “Almost All the Colleges I Wanted to Go to Rejected Me. Now What?” In response, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, shared …
Read MoreWith reads from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and EducationDive …
Read MoreWhat if perfection is overrated? …
Read MoreIn “100 Percent Is Overrated,” James Hamblin writes,
Read More“ ‘Mistakes grow your brain,’ as the professor of mathematics education at Stanford …
With reads from the Redesigning High School blog and Twitter …
Read MoreWhat if your school’s culture and tools could create the conditions for everyone—every student, every teacher, every staff member—to be an A player? …
Read MoreSteve Jobs is alleged to have said,
Read More“I found that when you get enough ‘A’ players together, when you go through the …
With reads from Forbes, EducationDive, and the Redesigning School blog …
Read MoreOn the morning of September 11, 2006, a fire truck appeared on the Great Dome at MIT …
Read MoreWhat if teachers accepted the first order negative of letting students drive their own learning in exchange for the second order positive of deeper, more resilient learning…
Read MoreScott McLeod, U. Colorado education professor, co-creator of the “Did You Know? (Shift Happens)” video series, and edtech guru, has said …
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