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Give them power and they will stay
An educator’s perspective on teacher-powered schools The vast majority of teachers go into education because they want to postively impact young people’s lives. This enthusiasm is often dampened by unrealistic […]
Integration with Integrity: Reflections on a Decades-long Design Journey
Seeing is Believing While many societal institutions would benefit from systemic reform, my life’s work focuses on engineering learning systems that support secondary, undergraduate and adult learners. Twenty-three years ago, […]
Student Empowered School via Town Hall
It’s a Friday afternoon. Normally, students are abuzz, packing up at the end of the day, chatting about weekend plans, waiting impatiently for the clock to hit 3:00. Not this […]
Teacher Evaluation Reimagined
This is the second of a two-part set of articles on Teacher Evaluation. See the first entry here. Contact Greg Fisher at schoolempowerment@gmail.com. Is there more than one way to design […]
Teacher evaluation can (and should) be way more meaningful
Peer observation and collaboration succeed where top-down reforms fail. This is the first of a two-part set of articles on Teacher Evaluation. Contact Greg Fisher at schoolempowerment@gmail.com. Teacher Evaluation is at […]
A Letter to Madam Tracy Lake
Cultivating creative, curious learners outdoors at a teacher-powered school Sometimes, people give up on kids. I have twenty of them in my little school, Class ACT. We call it a […]
In teacher-powered schools, many hands move ideas forward
A student meets with their teacher-advisor at Avalon. “How’s that working out for you?” Any time I explain to anyone in traditional public schools how Avalon School — where I’ve […]
At West Hawaii Explorations Academy, students drive inquiry into the natural world
Illustrations by Khou Vue for Education Evolving Abruptly shifting to distance learning is a shock to the system for any student, but especially if you’re used to going to school […]
Is a change in schooling just too obvious?
Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages The lessons of the pandemic start with the inadequate attempt by too many schools at remote learning for kids. Parents saw, many for the […]
At UCLA Community School, student-centered learning means honoring identity and core needs
Illustrations by Khou Vue for Education Evolving When we hear about “student-centered” and “personalized” learning, we often hear about individualizing learning: one-to-one access to technology, curriculum designed to meet unique […]