Chapter 9 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 stand-alone school that's not controlled by a school district or charter organization. The principles are similar to those 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 assessing and 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. They are the same as for transforming a school district and include 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.
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