Our K–12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn’t a good fit for all-or even most-students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability” labels over
Now bestselling author and education expert Tony Wagner and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith call for a complete overhaul of the function and focus of American schools, sharing insights and stories from the front lines, including profiles of successful students, teachers, parents, and business leaders. Their powerful, urgent message identifies the
Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework. Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third-grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner because your daughter wants to go to massage school instead of college. Give your child the freedom to pursue his interests, develop
If you grew up in an education setting like we did, then you spent much of your time being actively compliant—trying to navigate a system that was designed to produce people who followed the rules and waited to be told what to do. Then you graduated. And you waited for someone
Teaching at its best can be a generative act, one of the ways in which human beings try to cheat death by giving witness to the next generation so that what we have learned in our own lives doesn’t die with us. At its core, a college should be a place
Leaders must continue growing, sometimes by gaining new knowledge through experiences and at other times by broadening perspectives about knowledge they have already attained. In this book, the author gives you three success principles for your leadership no matter what the complexities of your personal journeys are.
As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from 'top-performing' education systems. She became curious about what was really going on in classrooms of the countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, math, and science.
Derral Eves has generated over 60 billion views on YouTube and helped 24 channels grow to one million subscribers from zero. In The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue, the owner of the largest YouTube how-to channel provides the secrets to
It’s no secret: schools need to change. The world is changing rapidly. Our learners have changed, and everything in the world of education must change, as well. We are in the middle of major disruptions in almost every industry, including learning, yet our roles and infrastructures haven’t kept up. Innovation is
The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. Wade and Hope King show you how to draw on your authentic self—your past experiences, personality quirks, interests, hobbies, and strengths—to deliver your content creatively. Whether you are a high school teacher or
In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In this book, we argue for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like
If political and school leaders—whom we consider the major audiences for this book—want to adapt learning and teaching environments to the demands of the 21st century, it is imperative that they understand the real challenges that future graduates will face. If we hope to prepare our students and graduates for the
You can’t these days throw a stone without hitting someone whose fortune was changed by the power of the internet. There are thousands of performers who were catapulted to stardom by YouTube, droves of mobile gaming companies that have seen great success in the app market, more product lines and categories
Back in the old days, one could only dream to live a better life than that of his or her parents. But today, there’s no limit to what one can do. When our basic needs from food, shelter and security are met, we start to dream bigger. Not only do we
It is no longer enough that we educate only to the standards of the traditional literacies. If students are to survive, let alone thrive, in the 21st-century culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets, then independent thinking and its corollary, creative thinking, hold the highest currency. To
Eradicate Average! CULTURIZE Your School. Average schools don't inspire greatness--and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners. In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our
One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: “I wish my teacher knew _____.” The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities
Innovation and entrepreneurship provide a way forward for solving the global challenges of the 21st century, building sustainable development, creating jobs, generating renewed economic growth, and advancing human welfare. To prepare global, creative, and entrepreneurial talents, education should not harm any child who aspires to do so or suppress their curiosity,
Online learning has improved dramatically since its arrival. Online content is becoming more engaging. And most students now have an internet device within reach, whether as a laptop, a tablet, or a mobile smartphone. Furthermore, an increasing number of students are experiencing online learning while continuing to attend their traditional brick-and-mortar
The IQ test is just a brief assessment of one trait. It doesn’t say anything about a person’s past or future potential. It’s only used to match a person to an intervention. Each person has numerous opportunities to demonstrate their intellectual prowess. A single test score certainly has no impact on
In 2001, The Guardian newspaper launched a competition called “The School I’d Like”. The initiative posed what seemed like a natural and appropriate question at the turn of the new century inviting children of school age to tell how they might change education and their experience of schooling for the better. From
Waldorf education aims at enabling students as fully as possible to choose and to realize their individual path through life as adults, and stresses to teachers that the best way to provide meaningful support for the child is to fully comprehend the phases of child development and to bring “age-appropriate” content
This book encourages a more effective role of the educators in the class through powerful strategies and techniques. The problems educators face today are about the vision and possibility that can be brought forth to make education work. These problems are, to a large degree, symptoms. Many teachers, especially new ones,
This book is mainly about of television and media's time and content on children. The studies on how children respond to content led us to ask: what exactly are our children watching? Can they make sense of it? Will they try to imitate what happens on screen? Could they learn from
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