EdJourney
A Roadmap to the Future of Education
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Today, most thoughtful educators agree that the industrial age model of content-driven education no longer serves our students. The goal of education has changed from the transfer of knowledge to the inculcation of wisdom, born of experience, which will help students to succeed in an increasingly ambiguous future. Schools must either radically change what they do or very quickly become utterly irrelevant. Simply, in order to not only survive but thrive, schools must develop comfort with, and capacity for, ongoing change.
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In order to not only survive but thrive, schools must develop comfort with, and capacity for, ongoing change.
The goal of education has changed from the transfer of knowledge to the inculcation of wisdom, born of experience, which will help students to succeed in an increasingly ambiguous future.
We should see school as a learning environment for adults as well as children. The most important mechanism for professional growth is to “leverage the brainpower.”
The single most impactful driver of effective change is creating a “growth mindset” among employees: the recognition and willingness that next year can, and probably should be, different from this year.
A growth mindset means a willingness to change what you are doing, which means shifting the equation of risk, fear, failure, and reward.
Savvy school leaders know that they can dramatically accelerate the rate of change in their school if they hire people with “innovation DNA” who are also good teachers, rather than hiring knowledge experts who are locked into a traditional teaching role.
Innovators tend to be dissatisfied with the status quo and willing to risk something in order to effect a change.
Good innovators can look at large amounts of data or information from disparate sources and recognize patterns others will not see.
People who can speak or understand many “languages” or the basics of many different disciplines are more likely to be better at this kind of pattern recognition.
Innovators are good at prioritizing options and assessing possible outcomes at various points in the creative process.
School innovation requires leadership with the courage to overcome aversion to risk, embrace failure, and to build an organizational upside to testing new game-changing ideas.
Leaders need to identify innovative entrepreneurs both inside and outside of their organization, and leverage those people’s impact on the organization.
Sustainable change will occur only when resources are visibly and sustainably aligned with a vision of what education looks like in the future, not in the past.
If we want students to learn to be global citizens, they have to engage with experiences and people off campus.
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