By Dr. Patrick Michel: I respectfully submit to you, by its very definition, that the current crop of education reformations are not the same thing as transformation in schools, and that the factors that cause achievement gaps need transformational solutions, not reform.
If we’re going to have students write, let’s have them create and share blog posts, right? I see this often as I work with teachers around project based learning and almost as often I come back with this…I wonder who will read it?
If establishing a growth mindset journey for students is worthy of our professional development allocations, is it not then implicit that we recognize its role in adult learning as well? As Senge points out, “people with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas. And they are deeply self-confident.
What accounts for the lack of connection between our expectations and aspirations, and the reality of schooling for many students? For those of us who loved learning while in school, read voraciously and tackled reports and projects with enthusiasm, why are we unable to generate that same enthusiasm for the majority of our students?
