When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools
[…] That’s clearly true for healthcare response, but it’s also true for, say, state unemployment systems. We’ll learn this fall whether it’s true for elections and voting. In public education, where systems have generally ruled the roost for decades (think: accountability, testing, sprawling federal and state regulatory requirements, restrictive bargaining agreements, immoveable governance models), the […]
School Districts and Charter Authorizers Need Innovation Pathways
It’s time for more new schools that meet new demands and take advantage of new opportunities--new schools inside public schools and public districts and new charter schools and networks.
Passion Projects and Peer Feedback: A Recipe for Work That Matters
[…] is the effectiveness of a linearly progressed strength training program? What is the effectiveness of special moves in chess? What was the effectiveness of COVID-19 protocols on public health outcomes (using an ASU simulation)? What is the correlation between the mass of an organism and the size of its genome? Do PEMF frequencies affect […]
Creating Promising Career Pathways for Minority High School Students by Partnering with the Business Community
[…] I began my doctoral journey at Northeastern University, I decided to focus my research on this issue because traveling the back roads of South Carolina. I witnessed public schools that face enormous challenges with diminishing resources, increasing academic expectations, and growing proportions of students living in poverty, trauma, and even homelessness. I was also […]
Arguing for Agency: One Student-led Classroom Debate at a Time
By: Les Lynn and Eric Tucker Understanding the ins and outs of the COVID-19 pandemic can be difficult—information changes almost daily, and public health guidelines shift, too. For schools grappling with these changes, it can be confusing. But it’s also a powerful learning opportunity for students: a chance to foster critical thinking skills and […]
School Vaccine Hub Publishes Curricular Resources for Teachers to Help Students Learn About COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy
[…] EquityByDesign.org—is an important new resource to empower schools to do just this. The Hub curates high-quality resources for schools and school leaders to share content from trusted public health institutions like the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. Importantly, the Hub also features curricular resources to engage students and inspire them […]
Trends Shaping Education in 2022
[…] have been first movers in adopting new outcome frameworks. These have included grant-sponsored networks (like XQ), platform networks (like New Tech Network), and managed networks (like Summit Public Schools). Starting 10 years ago, hundreds of school districts joined EdLeader21 (now part of Battelle for Kids) and launched community dialogs resulting in new goals expressed […]
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
[…] hopes and dreams conferences, and the like as teachers set out to get to know their students and to help students get to know one another. But before schools set to work on building new relationships, they should also pay attention to the relationships their students do and don’t already have. New data suggests that […]
Climate at the Apex of Education Re-Design
[…] Johns Hopkins University. This same day, Harvard C-Change partnered with Putney Pre-College, to release a no-cost, five-part on-line series of lessons exploring connections between climate change and public health. Teachers and students were invited to engage in issues specific but not limited to the situation posed by COVID-19. “The ability to turn climate change […]
4 Tiers Of Showcasing Student Work
In my last year of being a high school principal, I was reminded once again about the power of taking student work public. Then high school senior Destiny Anger – who later graduated from UC Santa Cruz and is now a Customer Relationship Manager and Marketing Specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area – […]
