Full Description
Discover how education innovations can produce astonishing results in student success both in and out of school. The educators featured in this book were motivated by the conviction that even the best status quo education was not serving current student needs. They responded with radical changes that tap into recent ideas about educational transformation: personalization, student-driven curriculum, student agency and co-ownership of learning direction, school-sheltered student entrepreneurship, student-led civic projects, creativity education, and product-oriented learning. Readers will find carefully researched and detailed stories of on-the-ground models where students learn empathy, cooperation, creativity, and self-management, alongside rigorous academics. Together these stories provide insight into the process of innovation and the elements that can make change successful. An Education Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste will inspire educators in ordinary situations to take extraordinary actions toward a new paradigm of education in which all students can flourish.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
Entrepreneurship and Personalizable Education 2
"Yes, but . . ." 3
"Yes, and . . ." 4
Plan of the Book 6
1. Radical Changes Led by Students 9
A Great School Invented by a Group of Unhappy Students 9
The Independent Project in Practice 10
Children Are Capable 16
Students Desire Autonomy: Deschooling Education 19
Get Out of the Way 22
2. Radical Changes in the Classroom 25
Teaching Without a Rudder 25
The Teacher Who Used to Hate School 29
The Teacher Who Accidentally Created a Miracle 31
A 19-Hour Drive Starts a Global Enterprising Educator 34
Challenge the Status Quo 36
3. Radical Changes in Broken Schools 39
A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste 39
Challenging the Grammar of Schooling 42
Learning Entrepreneurship Skills with a Safety Net 49
Out with the Old, in with the New: Taking on the Challenges 53
4. Radical Changes in Successful Schools 57
New Measures of Success 58
Why Good Schools Change 60
How Good Schools Change 62
A Challenge for All Good Schools 77
5. Radical Changes Within Networks of Schools 79
Banding Together to Leverage Change 79
The Annesley Remaking 80
The Rudolph Group: Networked to Innovate 82
The Prisoner's Dilemma and Possible Solutions 89
Challenging the Education Norm of Isolated Institutions 92
6. Radical Changes from Outside 95
Support for Students and Teachers from Real-World Scholars 95
Bringing Entrepreneurship to the Classroom 98
The Magic Is Not in the Money 101
What Works 103
Collaboration Is Key 105
Student-Centered, Student-Run 107
What Happens When Teachers Say, "Yes, and" 110
7. "Yes, and . . ." 113
Characteristics of Changes and Change Makers Needed in Education 113
The Changes 113
Change Can Happen Anywhere 121
Characteristics That Spark Ignition 122
Creating a Culture of "Yes, and" 126
References 131
Index 139
About the Authors 151
