by reDesign | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
Reflections on pedagogy that works for marginalized students I have a confession: I hate class discussions. I hate them because they remind me of baseball–which, however, I do enjoy. So please, let me explain. In baseball, most of the time three players are...
by reDesign | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
The day I stopped handing out packets of questions for students to answer at the end of each chapter of the novels I assigned my teaching changed. We Make the Road by Walking by Myles Horton, who founded the Highlander Folk School, and Paulo Freire, who is best...
by reDesign | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog
This is the sixth post of my Mastering Mastery-Based Learning in NYC tour. Start with the first post on NYC Big Takeaways and then read about NYC’s Mastery Collaborative, The Young Woman’s Leadership School of Astoria, Flushing International,...
by reDesign | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Leadership, School Design
This blog originally appeared on The Launch Pad, January 5, 2016. As I see it, the biggest challenge we face in American public schools today is this: we’ve got an antiquated factory-based school model, and a workforce that has proven particularly effective in...
