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“These kids are encouraged to think out loud, to say what they think, even if they might be wrong. Each is appreciated. The parents, he says, “are also in awe of their children.” And that frees them.
“I think there are a lot of kids who think about interesting things,” Zia says. “It’s my guess no one really asks them about it.”
Maybe that’s what this family does: They turn to their kids, and they ask.”
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Where, I wondered, did he learn about multiverses, free will, the odds of intelligent life in the universe? How does he manage to be so aware of what he doesn’t know?
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These kids are encouraged to think out loud, to say what they think, even if they might be wrong. Each is appreciated. The parents, he says, “are also in awe of their children.” And that frees them.
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A Radically Practical Vision of Education | EdSurge News
“In a world that’s changing so rapidly, why wouldn’t you build our education system around what we don’t know rather than around what we do?”
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Waypoints of the path of wisdom | Experiments in Learning by Doing
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Visualization as Process, Not Output – Jer Thorp – Harvard Business Review
“By thinking about visualization as a process instead of an outcome, we arm ourselves with an incredibly powerful thinking tool.” Part of the power of PMP – visualizing our schools’ pedagogical ecosystems so that we can unlock the ideas for systemic transformation.
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Forget About Influence And Change Management, It’s Time To Lead A Revolution! | Digital Tonto
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A Faculty Handbook that Answers the Question “How Can I Be Successful Here” | SAIS News
“Policies and procedures are important, but the real employee handbook, well thumbed and annotated, should read, “How to help students learn.””
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The Creativity Cure – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Creativity should instead be infused across the curriculum and assessments,
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Author Archives: boadams1
“A Radically Practical Vision of Education” via @EdSurge @patwater #MustRead
A #MustRead of #MustReads in my humble opinion…
In a world that’s changing so rapidly, why wouldn’t you build our education system around what we don’t know rather than around what we do?
Patrick Atwater in EdSurge 4.2.2013
“What inquiry-based education could look like in the year 2025–and how we get there.”
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-04-02-a-radically-practical-vision-of-education
I think we could get there much more nimbly and quickly than 2025. It would require those who are serious about purposefully using design to work the problem to achieve these new models…in existing schools, not just new start ups. It would require the courage to lead before we reach a place of more crisis-management change motivation. It would require those who want this vision for kids and learners right now.
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The Critical Move From Vision to Action: St. Christopher’s School, Richmond | The Learning Pond
“If a school organization asks people to implement classroom tactics aligned with a vision of innovation, asks people to do things differently than they have in the past, the school needs to provide three things: a clear, overarching articulation of how these changes en toto support the vision; a picture of what innovation looks like; and the time and resources to learn the new skills they require. The second two are a matter of resource alignment: spend some money and send people out in to the world to see what analogs are working for other schools. The first issue requires a critical step in planning between the vision statement and the classroom tactics. The school needs to make sure that their systems are compatible with the new pedagogy.”
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Three Huge Mistakes We Make Leading Kids…and How to Correct Them
“While I applaud the engagement of this generation of parents and teachers, it’s important to recognize the unintended consequences of our engagement. We want the best for our students, but research now shows that our “over-protection, over-connection” style has damaged them. Let me suggest three huge mistakes we’ve made leading this generation of kids and how we must correct them.”
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Why the Creative Class Needs to ‘Lean in’ to Education Reform | Education on GOOD
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Kids don’t hate history, they hate the way we teach it | History Tech
“He was very clear about it:
‘Kids don’t hate history. They hate the way we teach it.’
I couldn’t agree more.”
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Seth’s Blog: Toward zero unemployment
“build these assets with novelty, with a fresh approach to an old problem, with a human touch that is worth talking about.”
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Why Innovating Is About Doing, Not Talking | LinkedIn
To become a better innovator, it’s all about experiencing as many cycles of doing as you can.
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Why Are the Students In Your Class? | Practical Theory
“This is our challenge – to help every student we teach find the reason they are in our class. We must strive to ensure that the time we spend together will help every student become a better citizen and person, both today, and in the future. Our classrooms must then be lenses on the world, not just for the students who fall in love with the same content we love, but for every child.”
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“The main message I’d like to promote is ‘Develop yourself, explore the world around you, and try to do something to make a change,’ ” he says.”
Another example of self-motivated learning. It remains interesting to me that a number of examples of self-motivated learning come into conflict with “schooling.” But isn’t the learning that is happening with this example (many of these examples) exactly what we want our students to pursue, learn, develop, etc.?
PROCESS POST: Content = Solute; Context = Solvent; Curriculum = Solution (finding)
We believe that students learn best when they are . . .
- essential members of a vibrant, diverse learning community,
- immersed in challenging, real-life experiences that make a difference,
- exploring ideas, questions, and projects that are meaningful and relevant to them,
- collaborating with inspiring adults who know them well,
- given real responsibility for their education, and
- in touch with their innate wisdom and capacity for insight.
from Watershed School
Re-listening to outgoing NAIS president Pat Bassett’s TEDxSaintGeorgesSchool – Schools of the Future, I heard him say that one of his grandchildren attends The Watershed School. At 18:30, Bassett explains the way 7th graders start the school year at Watershed – with an expedition to the source of the Colorado River. Learning is based on exploration and discovery, problem finding and problem solving – real-life context in which the content is solute dissolving in solvent to form a solution.
What does your school believe helps students learn best? How are you realizing those beliefs?
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Building further from this post: “Could there actually be one “C” to rule them all?!”
At intersections of thinking and doing. #SchoolTransformation #PedagogicalMasterPlanning
As I continue the work on Pedagogical Master Planning here at Unboundary’s studio, I engage blogging as a way to think out loud, test ideas, benefit from co-thinking with commenters, and connect dots with other educational leaders. Just this morning, @akytle, @LisaLpez1, and @HollyChesser/@SAISnews offered invaluable insights within this collective exploration and 21st century ethnography of school transformation (https://itsaboutlearning.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/it-works-in-architecture-and-urban-planning-it-can-work-in-ed-transformation-too-pedagogicalmasterplanning/). Now, @GrantLichtman adds what I see as an invaluable extension of our ongoing conversations and a critical intersection with the morning exchanges with Angel, Lisa, and Holly. Grant provides a strong “case study” of the work demanded by school communities, of school communities, and for school communities to embrace harmonizing the incredible efforts of administrators, faculty, parents, and students. It is transformation work that insists on collective sense making, systems thinking, strategic designing, and the requisite time and attention to engage in such adventure TOGETHER.