Posts tagged edleader
Glen, Founder & CEO @ Galileo: Innovation Camps for Kids

"When I started Galileo I thought what I was doing was providing access to academic areas like science, and engineering, and visual arts.  But it turned out that what we were really doing was creating an environment.  An environment that collectively, between curriculum design, classroom ritual, and overall community design, creates a special space that allows people's best selves to emerge.  And ideally that's what schools could do too.  It's harder, I know, but that's what I would love to see happen in schools."

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Randall, Philosopher of Education and Moral Psychologist, NY

"I think that if we step back and ask ourselves what we would want of our society and what we want of our institutions, I think we would have no hesitation in saying that the aim of them should be to enable us to live well. . . So, schools have to be focused on enabling each child in the school’s care to make progress towards living a good life."

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Jeff, Co-Founder of Transcend, Father of 2, NY

Some people would blame the teachers, some people would blame poverty, some would blame our values as a country, some people would blame unions, some would blame the “corporate reformers,” or charter schools, etc.  My main feeling is that everyone’s right in some respects, but all of our views are also incomplete.  In our field, we’ve had so much focus on ‘why not’ that I think we’re better off working on how we all can think differently about what’s possible for the future.

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Daniel, Founder of Under A Tree, NJ

That’s the hardest part of it all: It’s not mean people making these decisions to hurt kids, it’s good people, decent people, people who genuinely believe themselves to be doing the right thing who are all kinds of caught in the system where they’re having to mediate and turn the same crank because of the consequences. ... That’s where the struggle is. It’s not between good people and bad people, it’s between all of us as just people trying to do the best we can and having very, very different opinions about what that looks like.

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Jenny, Mother of 3, School Board Member & EdTech Worker, CA

I think all parents want their kids to be happy.  But sometimes that means they think their child will only be happy if they go to an Ivy League or highly selective college and have every opportunity they either did or didn’t have.  Parents always want what’s best for their kid but we have trouble seeing that sometimes those heavy-handed goals towards what’s “best” have negative mental and emotional ramifications for the kids.

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Jeff, Researcher, School Founder & Father, CA

"That's the major pivot, is that schools become much more about relationship and much more about listening to, protecting, and wrapping our arms around children. And then those are the outcomes we chase, those are the things we measure. The depth and quality of relationships amongst the children, that they feel cared about, loved and protected."

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