Many current accreditation protocols have come under fire — for a number of legitimate reasons: the process is expensive ‘self-evaluations’ are labor-intensive, occur in largely disconnected silos (e.g., curriculum; leadership/governance;
What do parents and students do when they want to find out about a school’s quality? What do teachers do? Exactly what they would do when they book a trip
The overarching purpose of school ought to be that children should want to keep learning more about themselves, others, and the world around them. That’s a paraphrase of the driving
I know there’s been a lot of talk of late about getting back to “normal” and the quest to regain some of our old rhythms in life. Everyone is exhausted.
Effective leaders are learners. And that’s never been more true than right now. With all of the change, the challenges, and the problems that leaders are confronting in this chaotic
This blog post is republished with permission from Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. A number of folks have been eagerly encouraging schools to ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic. Here is
Let’s start here: Curriculum is just a guess. And to paraphrase the late, great Seymour Papert, now that we have access to just about everything there is to know, what
Our Unpleasant Truths | Will Richardson series: Part I: Where Have They Delivered Us? Part II: How Do Educators Get Unstuck? Part III: Schools Were Not Built For Learning School
Covid-19 has profoundly disrupted business as usual within schools, causing institutions across the country to scramble as they attempt to maintain services in the face of unforeseen obstacles. Operational challenges
By Tedd Wakeman, Co-Founder and Director, the Sycamore School (CA) As trends continue toward “rigorous,” standards-based educational practice, those of us on the front lines of reimagining education continue to