Reinvent public schools with proven, innovative practices
Our homes, communities, and the world itself need the natural assets our
children bring with them as learners, and which they often lose over
time on the assembly line that pervades most of the public education
system today. We see no actions as more important in school than
developing, supporting, and reinforcing children's sense of agency, the
value of their voices, and their potential to influence their own
communities.
In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders, Chief
Technology Officer Ira Socol, Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools
Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate how you can implement innovative
practices that have shown remarkable success. The authors use
progressive design principles to inform pathways to disrupt traditions
of education today and show you how to make innovations real that will
have a timeless and meaningful impact on students, keeping alive the
natural curiosity and passion for learning with which children enter
school.
- Discover the power of project-based and student-designed learning
- Find out what "maker learning" entails
- Launch connected and interactive digital learning
- Benefit from the authors' "opening up learning" space and time
Using examples from their own successful district as well as others
around the country, the authors create a deep map of the processes
necessary to move from schools in which content-driven, adult-determined
teaching has been the traditional norm to new learning spaces and
communities in which context-driven, child-determined learning is the
progressive norm.
