Dear Friends—
For the next three months, Ed:Future will be on hiatus because I have been asked to step in as the Acting President of Regis High School …
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With reads from the NEXT Newsletter, EdSure News, and UVA Magazine …
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What if we evolved our learning metaphor from line to circle to cone (or spiral)?
How might it change the way we think about curriculum and assessment? …
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I’ve written before about the ways that the metaphors we choose shape the experiences we have.
Is education a line or a circle? …
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With reads from TechCrunch, EdSurge News, and Getting Smart …
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What if genius isn’t an the quality of an individual, but something that emerges when we place “ordinary” people into extraordinary situations? …
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Do you believe that genius is rare, high talent is in short supply, and that ordinariness is the norm?
Or do you believe that under the right circumstances “ordinary” people can do extraordinary things? In other words, do you believe in scenius? …
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With reads from The New Yorker, The Future of Education substack, and The Chronicle of Higher Education …
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What if we treated failure as a subject to learn about?
We might discover, as Wang et al. did in “Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security,” that …
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Almost six years ago, I was hustling around Malvern Prep’s Learning Commons to arrange chairs, tables, coffee, and snacks. A few dozen people—a mixture of parents, faculty, staff, trustees—had RSVP’d to …
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With reads from Learning Forward, HigherEd Dive, and Inc …
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What if we made it a point to reverse the ratio of fear-to-understanding?
We are betting on a post-pandemic future in which schools will see more change, more quickly—not less change, and not slower change …
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When students are afraid, they learn less.
When faculty are afraid, they have a harder time understanding why change is happening …
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With reads from the NEXT newsletter, Farnam Street, and Annie Duke’s newsletter …
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What if we approached teaching by keeping our egos out of it?
Whatever we are attached to will become the center of our work …
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With reads from Seth Godin’s blog, Education Next, and Annie Duke’s newsletter …
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What if we took our favorite top 10 skills list, our school’s profile of a successful graduate, and any other skills, character traits, and competencies that float around our curriculum, and mapped them to the pace layer model?…
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In 1921, approximately 17% of American students graduated from high school. [1] Almost a century later, the graduation rate is now 88% …
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With reads from the New York Times, Forbes, and Education Week …
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