Redesigning School
There's a secret hidden in plain sight: school doesn't work for many, many students because, to a large extent, today’s schools were built for yesterday’s world. Schools still prioritize teaching over learning, conformity over agency, memorization over application, testing knowledge over using it, grading over growing, competition over collaboration, stress over engagement, the what over the why. What would happen, though, if we designed school with students and the future in mind? Every other Wednesday, parents, students, and fellow teachers should join Terry Dubow, Garet Libbey, and Julia Griffin as they interview experts, students, and educators, and explore ways to redesign school for changed world.
Redesigning School
But What about College?
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Terry Dubow, Julia Griffin, Renee Bischoff
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Season 2
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Episode 10
The landscape of college admissions is always complicated, so what happens when you add in paradigm shifts like mastery learning and the Mastery Transcript? To answer that and other questions, we invited Renee Bischoff, Hawken's Director of College Counseling, to join the podcast so we could explore the intersection of the college admissions process and efforts to redesign school.
The news, surprisingly perhaps, is good.
A few resources that might come in handy:
- What about College? -- A whitepaper from your friends at ReDesigning School
- A Fit Over Rankings -- A whitepaper from your friends at Challenge Success
- What ReDesigning School Looks Like: The Story of Engineering
- Life in College Matters for Life After College -- Results from the Purdue Gallup Poll 2014