Tag: Leadership

What happens when you bring together two dozen schools—from rural K-12s to large urban high schools—with the shared goal of reducing chronic absenteeism?

In 2009 I began an internship at the Innovation Unit in London. It being an internship, I was doing a little of everything, but my main project was Learning Futures, whose goal was to make school more engaging for students. 

Charged with the challenge and the honour of trying to capture the spectacular quality of David Price’s life, an image, not words, came to mind.

“You know how you can tell you’re in a happy school within 30 seconds of walking through the front door?” This is a statement/question that I’ve experienced on countless occasions during a lifetime spent in education. It has a ring of truth to it and we’ve all felt it as visitors or (worse) inspectors.

We wrote this chapter several years ago, in response to a request from the Sitra Foundation in Finland that we envision the school of the future. The chapter is dated in some respects, but apart from minimal updates and revisions for clarity, it appears here as written.

Educators have known for years that social, emotional, and cognitive processing are all neurologically intertwined and that school connectedness has long-lasting protective effects for adolescents.

Underlying Deeper Learning are the relationships that make learning meaningful and sticky.

Currently, our nation is experiencing a national teacher shortage that has disproportionate effects on students

What happened when a large Kentucky district decided to go big on Deeper Learning

As an educator for over 30 years, serving as a teacher, principal, and assistant superi...