The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It
A Serial Podcast Produced by Thembi Duncan and Dr. Charles Reigeluth.
American education is in trouble, and small fixes are no longer enough. In this series, host Thembi Duncan and education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth dive into why our system needs a complete paradigm shift and what it will take to make that happen.
Each episode explores tough but important questions: Are we setting students up to fail? How can schools personalize learning so every child has a chance to thrive? What roles should teachers, parents, and students play in a new model of education?
You will hear case studies, interviews, and real stories from schools and communities already working toward change. This podcast offers practical ideas, inspiration, and resources to help you imagine what education could look like if it truly served students’ needs.
Whether you are an educator, parent, policymaker, or simply someone who cares about the future of learning, this series will give you tools and motivation to push for a better system.
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The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It
8. How can a school district transform?
Chapter 8 of 10.
Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about the ways that a school district can transform itself to the personalized, competency-based paradigm of education.
Dr. Reigeluth describes some fundamental principles that guide a successful transformation process for a school district, such as involving many stakeholders in a learning process that helps them to evolve their mindsets or mental models about education, reaching consensus on values about education for their transformed system to live up to, the kind of leadership needed, and more.
Then he describes some specific sequential activities, such as enhancing readiness, bringing in an experienced facilitator, creating a small prelaunch team that later expands into a larger leadership team, and more. The leadership team develops a shared ideal vision for their school, and it develops a strategy for evolving ever closer to that ideal.
Next, Dr. Reigeluth describes continuous activities that should be done throughout the transformation process, such as maintaining trust, motivation, communication, self-evaluation, learning, and more.
This episode features Jeff Wetzler from Transcend Education and Scott Frauenheim from Leap Innovations, two non-profit organizations that help school systems to transform.
Huge thanks to our Chapter 8 GoFundMe Donors: Fred O'Neal, Eun-Ok Baek, Sinem Aslan, and JiYeon Lee.
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