Dear Reader,
Thank you for being part of Education Reimagined’s Voyager readership — a community of learner-centered advocates who are learning, growing, and leading together. This will be the last Voyager of 2022, but we’ll be back in mid-January with new insights and stories from the learner-centered field. In the meantime, join us in reflecting on some of our top-read and most impactful articles from this year!
Onward,
The Education Reimagined Team |
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Top Reads From 2022
1. Writing a New Narrative for a New System by Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.
Our education system is not just one system — it is many, all nested within each other, driven by a set of priorities or values that form its very foundation. So, how do you transform something so complicated?
2. As a Parent (and Educator), I Say We Need a System Driven by Purpose, Not Test Scores by Eunice Mitchell
Like so many learner-centered leaders, Big Picture Learning’s Eunice Mitchell grapples with parenting a child in the conventional system while knowing the possibility for joyful, inclusive, emboldening learning is out there.
3. Five Ways to Connect Your Classroom to the Community by Josh Ecker
Josh Ecker and the Salisbury Township School District developed new strategies and practices for their learners after living into the belief that we can no longer look at schools and classrooms as isolated learning environments.
4. Systems and Structures: What Needs Must Be Addressed for a Learner-Centered Future by Karen Pittman
Karen Pittman reflects on why she is committed to the invention of learner-centered ecosystems and shares what she believes must be addressed if we are to get there.
5. How Our Schools Need to Change After COVID by Matt Greenfield
Rethink Education’s Matt Greenfield explores what metaphors we might evoke in the design of a transformed learner-centered system of education.
6. How to Transform Schools: Put Wellness at the Center by Chris Balme
What if you could wave a magic wand and improve how we “do school” for every child in our country? For Chris Balme, former Head of School at Millennium School, the answer is easy.
7. Unlearning to Reimagine the Purpose of Education by Suchitha Balasubramaniam and Varsha Pillai
Team members from Dream a Dream, a youth life-skills focused non-profit in India, share what they discovered when their organization went through its own process of unlearning, after more than 20 years of service.
8. Differences Between Teacher-Led vs Learner-Led Education — Practical Steps to Make Change Happen by Dr. Tyler S. Thigpen
Dr. Tyler Thigpen of The Forest School explores how we can create environments that cultivate learner agency and equip young people with the skills to drive and own their learning journeys.
9. On Community by Emily Liebtag
Education Reimagined’s Emily Liebtag reflects on what we can learn from Exhibitions of Learning that are intentionally creating community on multiple levels.
10. Building a Bright Learner-Centered Future by Jal Mehta
Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Jal Mehta, speaks passionately about stewardship, equity, and why we can’t simply move from point A to point B when it comes to education transformation.
11. Leading into the Future: Learner-Centered Ecosystems by Kelly Young
Education Reimagined’s President Kelly Young explores what must be invented if we are to build a viable, learner-centered ecosystem, including funding mechanisms, credentialing, transportation, and more.
12. K–12 Value Networks: The Hidden Forces That Help or Hinder Learner-Centered Education by Thomas Arnett
In partnership with Education Reimagined, Thomas Arnett of the Clayton Christensen Institute examines how value networks reveal what it will really take to see the future of education take root.
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Earlier this year, we launched The Big Idea — a collection of stories and videos illustrating how community-based ecosystems of learning could enliven young people and the places in which they live, learn, and play. Set in a thriving learner-centered future, explore the impact ecosystems could have on young learners, their learning partners, families, and community members. |
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