A Revolution in Education

What is wrong with our current design of schools?

• Paula Dillon, Assistant Superintendent of Barrington (RI) Schools
• Corey Mohn, Executive Director of the CAPS Network
• Chad Carlson, Director of Research and Design, One Stone

There are educators across the country that have created new “images of possibility” in regards to new school designs. These educators share and discuss these new possibilities.

• Jon Ketler, co-Director and co-founder of SOTA, SAMI, and IDEA schools of the Tacoma Public Schools
• Trace Pickering, Executive Director and co-founder of IowaBig
• Ben Owens, former teacher at Tri-County Early College and co-founder of Open Way Learning
• Gregg Brown, Network Coordinator, Center for Advanced Professional Studies Network

An inordinate amount of time, energy, and resources have been spent on increase students’ ELA and Math scores on standardized tests. It’s not that begin able to read, write, and do math are not important – but what happens when we ask the question: What is most important for our students to know and be able to do to pursue the lives they want?

• Laura Shibulla, Founder of Building21
• Ayris Colvin, Principal of Building21 school in Philadelphia
• Theresa Moore, Founder and President of T-Time Productions
• Tessa Simmonds, graduate of One Stone
• Grace Belfiore, Co-Lead Researcher and Co-Author of NGLC MyWays

The old model of schools with the focus on content delivery and skills not attentive to or directly connected to the interests, passions, and context of youth needs to go. But how can we pursue new designs of teaching, learning, and schooling that far better engages our youth and affords them the capacity to pursue the lives they want?

• Jeff Petty, Regional Director of Big Picture Learning and Founder and Director of the Puget Sound Consortium for School Innovation
• Alexis Gwin-Miller, Executive Director of Momentum Edge Coaching and Consulting Agency and former Principal of Crosstown High School
• Jenn Charlot, Transcend Education and co-founder of Rev-X
• Sonya Wrisley, who helped to develop and was the first Principal at Design39 in San Diego

There has been a very strong press for networks as catalyzers, incubators, and supports to engender the development of new schools, transformation of schools, and agents of change in our educational ecosystem. Come hear three leading educational leaders talk about the power of networks in driving and supporting educational opportunity and visions for educators and communities around the world.

• Tom Vander Ark, co-founder of Getting Smart
• Joanne McEachen, CEO/Founder of The Learner First
• Justin Aglio is currently the Director of Academic Achievement and District Innovation at Montour School District and a frequent columnist for several educational blogs on innovation in schools and school systems