I just watched the PBS Special TED Talks Education, and it’s made me wonder if the TED phenomenon has, perhaps, gone as far as it can go.
As Congress prepares to reauthorize ESEA, how might this sort of learning opportunity be incentivized, so that experiences like this become the norm (in all schools) and not the exception?
Watch it — and imagine if every reform effort was primarily concerned with increasing the relational — as opposed to the computational — quality of a school community and the people who work and learn there.
Imagine if all schools showed as much faith in the transformative power of the arts — and of a school committed to developing every aspect of a young person, not just reading and math?
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If a prominent urban school leader told you he couldn’t recall being informed that half his city’s schools may have allowed the gross mistreatment of students to occur, would you believe him? And even if you did, would you still want him in charge of your children?
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1 CommentThe decision by DC Council Education Committee Chairman David Catania to hire an outside law firm to craft school reform legislation is an awful one, worthy of serious public rebuke – and for two interrelated reasons.
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1 CommentImagine if its insights were more proactively applied to the way we tell stories about teaching and learning?
Powerful storytelling, and another reminder of the myriad needs our communities — not just our schools — need to be addressing.
Watch 180 Days : A Year Inside an American High School Episode 1 on PBS. See more from 180 Days.
