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Some teachers discuss metacognition with students

“When we have a rich meta-strategic base for our thinking, that helps us to be more independent learners,”

Lou Gray emphasized the importance of openness, and of encouraging the belief that it was okay to fail

 Rick Shea mentioned the need to think big, to remove self-limiting obstacles and ideas in order to foster a discussion “without boundaries” that could stimulate the imagination, and to encourage experimentation and see the inevitable resulting “failures” as part of the learning process.

Deborah Wilds stressed the importance of distributive leadership coming from throughout the organization, and of creating a culture of using data to drive new innovative policies.

Paul’s book review discusses Ripley’s study of three cultures’ perspective of education: Finland, South Korea, and Poland.

In an

global economy, kids needed to be driven; they need to know how to adapt, since they would be doing it all their lives. They needed a culture of rigor.’”