by edtosavetheworld | Jun 4, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Educators today seem to be faced with a choice: Keep teaching centuries-old ways of organizing the world through traditional disciplines such as math, science and music or throw it all out in favor of innovation, creativity and problem-solving skills. OR It is a...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 28, 2015 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
We are so excited to have met the great people who run the Institute for Humane Education. Founder Zoe Weil reached out to us and said, “Hey, we should connect.” We read their vision and found it incredibly similar to ours, almost down to the word! We...
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 23, 2015 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
People sometimes ask us “But do you really think kids can change the world? You just mean that they’ll learn to change the world. Or that they can influence their school. Right?” So let’s take this opportunity to be uber clear: Our vision is kids changing the world....
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 15, 2015 | Testing and Assessments
I love this image we created for our Fellowship Summit. How long has our modern design for schools been in existence? It often feels like we’ve always done school with desks in rows and a teacher in the front, students separated by age and written tests to check...
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 8, 2015 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
This is probably my all-time favorite post. It comes from May of 2013 and provides such a clear, compelling vision of how different (and exciting, fun, energizing, powerful) school could be if we really push ourselves to transform. I thought about it as I drove to...
