Action Steps to Achieve Equity

Action Steps to Achieve Equity

CTL 20th Anniversary Blog Series: After the Event Action Steps to Achieve Equity During CTL’s recent 20th Anniversary Education Forum and Celebration held at the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville, table groups of educators and policy makers developed...
How to Achieve Systems Change: Action Steps

How to Achieve Systems Change: Action Steps

While my colleagues and I were planning CTL’s 20th Anniversary Education Forum and Celebration, we recognized that the three themes central to inventing the next 20 years of education—equity, innovation and systems change—were not separate but rather interrelated....
Art has the power…

Art has the power…

When someone asks me why the arts are important to learning, I usually respond by describing my own experience in using the arts to excite learners. One such experience follows.  Here is the scene: A narrow, windowless room in an urban middle school, with twelve desks...