Episode 3: What's Important to Learn?

07/06/20 • 56 min

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

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

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Episode 4: How Can we Pursue New Designs?

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

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Episode 2: What is Possible?

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.