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To Reduce Plagiarism, Increase Joy, and Create Conditions for Learning that Sticks: Ask Students to Transform Content
Schools suited for the 21st century do not ask students to regurgitate content, but, instead, to transform it. What exactly does this mean? It means that students combine what they learn with their perspective, or their personality, or their aesthetics, or their creativity, or all of these, to produce something that has not existed before. …
Is Authentic Innovative Education Scaleable?
If she doesn’t zoom out, a chemistry teacher might tell herself that her purpose is to teach chemistry. If, instead, she decides that her purpose is to give the young a lifelong relationship to the organic world, new possibilities emerge. from The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker HTH Approach to Scale HTH expanded its …
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Innovating on Curriculum
A feature of innovative schools, and probably innovative organizations more generally, is a tendency to under-design from the top*. I’ve worked at two K-12 schools designed to continually innovate, and each takes a slightly different approach to avoid over-fitting theory on praxis. First a note about constant change: One might reasonably think that, yes, the …
Assessment as Dialogue: Podcast Episode with Innovative Teacher
Traditional quantitative assessment methods can work at cross purposes with schools and teachers attempting to implement a John Dewey-inspired approach to school that consists of authentic experiences and reflection. Furthermore, traditional methods can exacerbate opportunity gaps and unduly punish those students who most deserve support and encouragement. Mark Poole, engineering teacher at High Tech High …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]