by edtosavetheworld | Jan 29, 2015 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership, Stage 5: Students as World Changers
At Ed to Save the World we’re keeping tabs on the increasingly important role of informal education spaces – spaces outside of school that serve to develop students’ knowledge, skills, passions, and attitudes. While schools are struggling to keep up...
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 | Jul 1, 2014 | Ed2S Fellows
Great first day of the Ed2S Fellows Summit! Our fellows created maps of the thought leaders we’ve profiled over the last few weeks. Which way of organizing our 13 influential thinkers makes the most sense to you?...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 12, 2014 | Influential Thinkers
Senator John Glenn opens his preface to Klimek, Ritzenhein, and Sullivan’s Generative Leadership; Shaping New Futures for Today’s Schools by acknowledge the necessity of profound change in our education system. This transformation requires a new type of leader....
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 2, 2014 | Influential Thinkers
It used to be that we could rely on an education system that created innovators by accident. People that changed the world with new ideas were the exception, not the rule. In his book Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner argues we can no longer afford this approach to...