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Redesigning SchoolYou Ask; We Answer: FAQs about the MSHRecently, the Mastery School of Hawken hosted our newly accepted families for a Covid-safe on campus event during which they could tour the buildings, speak to faculty, and experience a bit of the pedagogy that makes the school so distinctive. Families could also stop by the ReDesigning School booth to record a question for Julia Griffin, Director of the Mastery School, and Rasa Drane, Director of Admission. In this episode, host Terry Dubow poses those and other questions to Julia and Rasa, whose responses shed more light on the Mastery School.2021-04-2033 minRedesigning SchoolWe're Launched! -- Notes on Opening the Mastery School of HawkenIt's been a long time coming. The Mastery School of Hawken was a mere idea a few years ago, and now it's a thriving school with students, faculty, and an approach that upends how school generally works. Julia Griffin, Director of the Mastery School, and Nick Cheadle, return to the podcast to share their reactions and reflections on the opening and what's next.Be sure to check out the Mastery School's new website to learn more about some of the program elements discussed. 2020-10-2328 minRedesigning SchoolOpening School During a PandemicAnd we're back.Here at ReDesigning School, we've had our collective heads down for the past months, and now we're ready to look up. As have many in schools across the world, the Hawken administration and faculty have had to redesign just about every facet of school while staying true to our purpose, which is to deliver "Forward-focused preparation for the real world through the development of character and intellect."No easy task, but we've learned a few things that we can share.In Episode One of Season Three, 2020-10-0821 minRedesigning SchoolWhere We Are with the Mastery School of HawkenWhat's it like to design a school from the ground floor? Particularly a school that's built on massive paradigm shifts around teaching methods, assessment models, and more? Julia Griffin and Doris Korda of the Korda Institute for Teaching share their thoughts on where we are with the design of The Mastery School of Hawken, which opens in ten short months. We're exactly where we're supposed to be, they say. And that's a complicated and invigorating place. 2019-10-1631 minRedesigning SchoolFriends in the RevolutionWe're not alone! Not by a long shot. Educators around the world are immersed in rethinking what, how and why we teach and students learn. One school that's starting from scratch is The Revolution School in Philadelphia, a new high school with a mission "to inspire a diverse group of learners, thinkers, and doers to be active and reflective problem-solvers, who are bold and empathetic with academic and emotional resilience."Co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin spoke with Noelle Kellich, Head of Teaching and Learning, and ...2019-06-1241 minRedesigning SchoolGoogle CultureGoogle started as a search engine in 1998 and now is an Alphabet valued at three-quarters of a trillion dollars. In between those two moments in time, it transitioned from a mere idea to one of the most profound and disruptive technologies in the history of the human race. What could schools learn from this kind of evolution? A lot, it turns out. In this episode of the pod, Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin interview John Schirm, Compensation Manager at Google, to learn more about how Google created a culture that values growth, psychological...2019-05-1541 minRedesigning SchoolDoctors Without Boulders: What High Schools Can Learn from Medical Schools that Remove Tests, Grades, and LecturesIt’s hard to think of a field that demands more content acquisition than medicine, so what to make of medical schools that train doctors using problems not tests? Dr. Neil Mehta, Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, joined Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin on the pod to discuss the paradigm shift that has altered the way that he and his colleagues prepare our future doctors. They started with a simple and profound question: “What are the competencies that make a good physician?” The answers surprised them a...2019-05-0139 minRedesigning SchoolThe Job of School when No One Knows what Jobs will Look LikeEvery one of our graduates eventually becomes someone else's employee. As we redesign school, how much should we take into account the world of work our students will enter? You could make the argument that the model of today's school was designed to create and sort labor pools for industries -- many of which have changed profoundly or even disappeared. (Truth in advertising: we make that precise argument at The Mastery School of Hawken...). Should we now design school around the needs of Google or the local wind turbine manufacturer? In this episode Terry D...2019-04-1741 minRedesigning SchoolSo, You Want to Build a SchoolIf you haven't heard, we're designing a new school. The Mastery School of Hawken is a new high school in Cleveland’s University Circle designed with students and the future in mind. We’ll welcome our founding class in August 2020. In this episode, Julia Griffin changed hats and sat down for an interview in her new role of the Director of the Mastery School of Hawken. Scott Looney, Head of Hawken School, joined Terry Dubow to dig into the why and the what and the how of this new ventu...2019-04-0337 minRedesigning SchoolNot Another Project!When students hear there's a project coming their way, they don't always jump for joy. And yet we know that projects are some of the best tools we have for helping students achieve enduring and deep learning. In this episode of Redesigning School, Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin work on their own project: How to Make Project-Based Learning Work.They're joined by Doris Korda, former Associate Head of School at Hawken, who was the principal architect of Hawken Entrepreneurship program and the signature MACRO courses, as well as a critical coach/designer with...2019-03-2038 minRedesigning SchoolBringing Back the JoyDoes your school feel like it should rebrand itself as Suffering Academy? When kids are young, play is an essential part of learning, but then something happens that converts play and its black sheep cousin fun with something antithetical to the real work of a rigorous and challenging education. Why though?In this episode of Redesigning School, teachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin invite three of their colleagues at Hawken School to discuss the benefits of making school joyful again.Special thanks to Becca Marks, Lauren Coil-Sherck and Steve Weiskopf for...2019-01-2954 minRedesigning SchoolGrappling with GradesTeachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin kick off the inaugural episode of the Redesigning School podcast with a conversation about the role grades play in a student's education and a teacher's vocation. Let's just say that it's a complicated relationship.A few references that we mention (or should have!) :"Letter Grades Deserve an F" -- Jessica Lahey The AtlanticMindset -- Carol DweckDrive -- Daniel Pink“Do School Better” podcast at Wildfire Education -- Doris KordaThe Secret of Effective Feed...2019-01-0230 minRedesigning SchoolDesigning the Ideal High SchoolIf you could start all over, how would you design high school? Hawken School asked a group of seniors precisely that. Actually, Julia Griffin and Head of School Scott Looney taught a three-week Intensive course in which students got a blank sheet of paper, a thorough download of current research, and a trip to the Bay Area so they could draw up a school designed with them and the future in mind. On this episode of Redesigning School, teachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin interview Scott and discuss the trip to California, the...2019-01-0232 min