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. …

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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 …

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