#14 Wisdom Amouzou & Olivia Jones, Empower High School: What Happens in a Student-led School?

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11/26/20 • 35 min

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Wisdom and Olivia founded Empower High School to develop young leaders who can transformatively resist systems of oppression and build new systems of liberation. With a school led by students, guided by educators and co-created with the community, things can get messy, but they’re committed to being comfortable with continual change and to resisting the impulse to revert to a broken system.
Show notes:
- Twitter - @EmpowerHS, @BrotherAmouzou
- More about Empower High School - https://empowerhighschool.org/
- Education as a means of liberation - https://globallearninglab.teachforall.org/video-page/465/wisdom-amouzou-education-is-a-means-for-liberation
- Explanation of transformative resistance - https://empowerhighschool.org/blog/2019/10/28/what-do-we-mean-by-transformative-resistance
- Teaching Community, Bell Hooks - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833590.Teaching_Community
- Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/72657.Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed
- Another Country, James Baldwin - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38474.Another_Country
- This is How you Lose Her, Junot Diaz - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13503109-this-is-how-you-lose-her
- Queen’s Gambit - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10048342/
- The Mandalorian - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8111088/

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#13 Christopher Pommerening, Learnlife: A future of education without teachers, classrooms or schools

With a map of global learning innovations and a Learning Hub in Barcelona, Chris aims to give educators a vision of what the future of education might look like, as well as a plug and play toolkit to allow educators to pick and choose the ideas, practices and mindsets they want to put into their own schools and communities.
Show notes:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/christopherpomm?lang=en
- More about LearnLife: https://learnlife.com/
- More about RE:Learn, LearnLife’s festival of learning: https://relearnfestival.com/
- More about Learning Hub in Barcelona: https://learnlife.com/barcelona
- More about the new learning paradigm: https://learnlife.com/alliance/learning-paradigm
- LearnLife’s research on global innovation: https://learnlife.com/alliance/learning-from-the-best

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#15 Gregg Behr, Remake Learning: How to Mobilise a Community Around the Future of Education

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Over the last 15 years, Remake Learning has invested $100M, making a series of "small bets" to support and invest in a network of people igniting change, and empowering those ready for it. Their first annual Remake Learning Day saw 30,000 families take part in what he calls an “amusement park of innovative learning”, bringing to life what the future of education could look like. We talk about measuring the success of those small bets and how to mobilize a community around the future of learning.
Show notes:
- Twitter: @remakelearning, @RemakeDays, @greggbehr
- More about Remake Learning: https://remakelearning.org/
- More about Remake Learning Days: https://remakelearningdays.org/
- More about Grable Foundation: https://grable.org/
- Remake Learning Playbook: https://playbook.remakelearning.org/
- Book: Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed, Philip Paul Hallie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167405.Lest_Innocent_Blood_Be_Shed
- Binge-watching: Vikings, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306299/