1st Edition
by Ira David Socol (Author), Pam Moran (Author), Chad Ratliff (Author)
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.
