Hopefully, this blog will allow me and others
to re-imagine how we see and what we expect from "school" - broadly
defined as a place or places where people learn. Even this broad
definition begins to break one barrier that many have begun to accept as normal
- the notion that school is not a building but rather a place where intentional
learning happens - a school house, community, work, sports field, artist
studio, mountaintops. Our urgent challenge to re-imagine school - and
quickly transform it - comes from the fact that too many children lack a
"school" that teaches them to engage in literacy and problem-solving
rich experiences. Instead, too many children attend "schools" that
are starving them by withholding the tools and experiences they need to
participate economically, thoughtfully, productively.
I plan on sharing ideas on leadership, literacy, instruction and observations and
lessons I learn from "schools" I visit, and the policies at play in
the background.
It's time to re-imagine school now so that children can re-imagine their
futures today.