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Alfonso Gonzalez

Finland Education System Is Very Laid Back, And Totally Working - 59 views

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      Alfonso Gonzalez on 10 Oct 16
       
      Seems like Finland is still at it. So much we learn from them but the education system here in the US just isn't flexible enough to make enough change to do what is better for kids. Our system is too focused on standardized test scores and accountability and separate subjects.
Glenn Hervieux

Edu Change & Advocacy: Is High School Ready For A Major Makeover? Think 'Yes' In A Big Way - 29 views

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CTE education reform edreform blogpost

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 19 Jan 15
     
    "As learners, we are sometimes challenged (not often enough fortunately) to think big.  We are able to ask the question 'what if' when looking at a challenge.  We are tasked with redesigning, recreating, reimagining or rethinking the entire thing.  Maybe these are more 22nd century ideas. Well, when it comes to our high school system and overall student experience, here are my suggestions:" (Get ready for some out of the box ideas)
kfeldhau

Transformation in Education - 12 views

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 19 Jan 15
     
    "What Is Transformational In Your Educational Vision?      Part of the challenge in educational reform is that not everyone defines learning or education the same way.  Sure, we all refer to things such as literacy, college and career ready, 21st century skills, etc.        However, what is the core purpose of one's education?  Beyond specifics related to employment skills, literacy skills and standards mastery, I offer up this idea: Education is meant to transform one's life.  In other words, education has to dramatically, or even radically, transform the person into a new, improved person that is more emotionally, socially, and intellectually ready for any challenge the world has to offer."
oregonjon

The Challenges of Digital Leadership - 46 views

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  • oregonjon on 16 Jan 15
     
    Scott McLeod summarizes the reasons that technology is not used effectively in independent schools, and gives suggestions for how to do it better.
Craig Campbell

Rethinking Schools - 67 views

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  • Craig Campbell on 18 Apr 14
     
    good ideas for lessons
thebda

Steve Hargadon: Escaping the Education Matrix | MindShift - 49 views

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  • “We tell a story about the power of learning that is very different from what we practice in traditional models of school
  • If we really want children to grow up to become self-reliant and reach their full potential, “we would be doing something very different in schools. We live in a state of cognitive dissonance.”
  • “What are most kids getting out of 12 years of school?” he asks. “The honest answer is they’re learning how to follow
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  • The reason so many adults find the situation tolerable, he says, may stem from the fact that they experience little control over their own lives. Additionally, they themselves are products of the system
  • For models of healthier ways to frame education, Hargadon suggests looking to food and libraries. “No one says that from age six to 17, we will give you all the same food, at the same time, regardless of your individual circumstances or needs,”
  • “In some ways, traditional schools have co-opted a lot of traditional parental responsibilities,” he says. “That’s really unhealthy,
  • Recognizing the different needs of every student, and the desire to help each one become personally competent as a learner and find productive things to do in life—that won’t happen online.”
  • Technology can support a transformation, but it’s not a silver bullet
  • one way change agents get tripped up is by promoting a particular model, rather than a process by which people can develop (or adopt) models
  • “Living in a democracy means involving people in decision making,” Hargadon says. “You can’t just create a new system to implement top down; you have to provide the opportunity to talk about it and build it constructively.”
  • Jennie Snyder on 09 Jan 14
     
    "How do you tell a story that opens the door to rethinking what people have believed for decades?" Thoughtful piece on changing our paradigm.
Deborah Baillesderr

Shiny Happy Teachers: RSCON4: Worldwide educator conversations that need YOU - 12 views

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 02 Oct 13
     
    YOU have a seat at the WORLDWIDE table of BIG IDEAS in education--at the Reform Symposium Conference. October 11-13, FREE, online conference.
smilex3md

Four decades of failed school reform - The Washington Post - 54 views

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  • smilex3md on 01 Oct 13
     
    A history of teaching/learning initiatives from a retiring teacher. "I saw countless reforms come and go; some even returned years later disguised in new education lingo. Some that were touted as "best practices" couldn't work, given Alexandria's demographics. Others were nothing but common-sense bromides hyped as revolutionary epiphanies. All of them failed to do what I believe to be key to teaching: to make students care about what they're studying and understand how it's relevant to their lives."
psmiley

Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now - 2 views

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  • psmiley on 29 May 13
     
    Why We Need to Reform Education Now - Huffington Post http://t.co/aw5dxu128p Some say we can't afford to personalize education to every student. The fact is we can't afford not to. http://t.co/NVUjNJCJnN
Steve Ransom

Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers - and transforms elementary school... - 62 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 May 13
     
    Funny... when you treat children with dignity and create beauty around them, they tend NOT to act like criminals. Create a school environment that's like a prison, and...
Steven Szalaj

Teachers - Will We Ever Learn? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Steven Szalaj on 13 Apr 13
     
    This essay is an attempt to provide an overview of evaluations and reforms in American education since the 1983 report, "A Nation at Risk". It goes on to point to directions that have largely been unexplored here, and ways that, in the author's opinion would facilitate more meaningful reform, reform that begets improvement.   
thebda

From Plantation Thinking to Rainforest Thinking | headguruteacher - 12 views

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  • School culture is dominated by the notion that, in all areas, there is a right way to do things and that, consequently, schools or teachers should be doing things in a certain way; this requires controls and accountability measures.
  • Rainforest Thinking is a powerful concept. 
Jon Tanner

Why Inquiry Learning is Worth the Trouble | MindShift - 98 views

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  • Jon Tanner on 30 Jan 13
     
    Chris Lehman, principal of the Science Leadership Academy, talks about hot to guide kids to think about their own thinking.
Jon Tanner

College Degree, No Class Time Required - WSJ.com - 31 views

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  • Jon Tanner on 29 Jan 13
     
    University of Wisconsin to offer degrees based on proficiency instead of seat time. Students can get a degree by showing they know the material and can pass the test.
Jennie Snyder

Elizabeth English: Why So Many Schools Remain Penitentiaries of Boredom - 80 views

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  • Instead, educators must become designers of doing.
  • eaching is a highly skilled craft, requiring not only explicit objectives, but a beautifully designed and irresistible learning experience that asks students think critically, solve a problem, create a product.
  • Educational leaders have to have the courage to reinvent our schools for real this time. And our teachers must be teachers of children as well as teachers of their subject area. This means possessing pedagogical knowledge -- the tools in the tool belt to design a lesson for the students of the present and the problems of the future.
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  • Our schools and teaching have to be worthy of a student's attention.
  • And here's where our schools become relevant once more: in teaching our children to evaluate and use that information in ways that are important and meaningful and to satisfy their fundamental human desire to construct solutions for the world full of engaging and pressing problems they will inherit.
Brandon Workentin

Will · The "Immeasurable" Part 2 - 98 views

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  • Brandon Workentin on 13 Aug 12
     
    Important things are difficult to assess. Content Knowledge is easy to assess. Great infographic showing this.
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