What if your high school teacher said to you, "teach me something", instead of "you need to learn physics because you're going to need it someday"?
I really enjoyed watching Chris Lehmann talk about fixing education in the high school setting because the "fix" seems like a no-brainer: teach kids how to learn not what to learn, and teach kids how to live as citizens as opposed to workers.
Mr. Lehmann briefly discussed a civics lesson about research in the community: research building names, find a building named for a person, find out why, and who they are, then present your findings to the class in whatever format you choose. In other words, teach me something.....create real stuff and share it.
Students aren't being told what to learn, but how to learn.
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Chris has a great school; if you ever get the chance to visit, you should. What I wonder is how we make his vision translate to other places. It seems so many schools are mired with a "we can't attitude" instead of one that changes the game for kids AND gets to all of the traditional expectations we have of schools. It's a difficult dance that Chris and a few others seem willing to take on. That's the burning question around leadership right now.
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