Constructing Extraordinary Group-Primarily based Faculties with Jenee Henry Wooden

Jenee Henry Wooden, Chief Studying Officer at Transcend and co-author of the guide Extraordinary Studying for All: How Communities Design Faculties The place Everyone Thrives, joins host Mike Palmer in a dialog about community-based design and methods to leap forward previous the economic mannequin of K12 schooling left over from the twentieth century.

Jenee shares her journey into schooling, which started with a background in worldwide economics and led her to Educate for America to turn into a instructor and advocate for college students voice and instructor/neighborhood empowerment. We talk about the constraints of the standard “industrial” mannequin of schooling and discover the idea of community-based design, the place colleges companion with college students, dad and mom, and the broader neighborhood to create studying experiences which are related, partaking, and empowering.  

Key Takeaways:

• The present design of college is a 100-year-old mannequin that must be redesigned to satisfy the wants of at the moment’s learners.  
• Studying experiences ought to be related, partaking, and customised to every scholar’s wants.  
• Group-based design brings collectively college students, dad and mom, educators, and neighborhood members to create a shared imaginative and prescient for schooling.  
• Faculties ought to be studying engines that continually evolve to satisfy the altering wants of scholars and society.  

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