Experiential learning

Gritty Educational Models to Prepare Kids for the Real World

If we could really step back and apply the principles of backward planning, we may not need to be talking about grit at the...

If We Want to Change Education, We Need to Disrupt It

What do you think our greatest improvements have been in the educational sector in the past couple of years? Has it been the number of...

Who Is the Teacher of Tomorrow?

In my last post, I asked people to “Imagine a School without Teachers” in order to examine some of the current challenges to the...

Dear NYC School Principals: Let Cell Phones Be Used for Learning

Last week, we learned that the New York City Department of Education will be lifting its long-time ban on cell phones in the schools....

Reflections on Learning Part II: Back to the Future

At the close of 2014, Designs2Learn shared memories of early learning: the rituals of school, learning journeys, learning how to fail,...

Collaboration in An Hour of Code

I’m thrilled to participate in this week’s “An Hour of Code,” that is taking place as part of the annual “Computer Science Education...

Meeting Veterans’ Needs with Continuous Learning

Prepare Your Audience We know that many of the traits associated with entrepreneurship are characteristics shared by the vast majority of...

Meet Johnny’s Teachers

In my previous blog, This is a School that Johnny Wants to Attend, I wrote about Johnny’s new school, an environment designed to optimize...

Why Not a 14th or 15th Grade to Better Prepare Students for the Real World?

“Welcome to 13th Grade,” reports on an Oregon initiative to add a 13th year to the high school experience in order to help better prepare...

A (Cautionary) Tale of Two Students

The two students at the heart of this story are sisters, raised in moderate circumstances in one of the richest cities in the world....

Rewriting Paradigms