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Real Learning, Real Accomplishment (part one)
New book demonstrates how schools transform by measuring what matters (here are a few excerpts)
from my Introduction: Mastering Their Lives, Mastering Their Worlds.
If we are going to do better, we must ask, and ask every day, what do the learners who come to us need? What do they need today? What will they need tomorrow? What do they need to thrive as healthy, capable, kind, constantly learning members of our families, our communities, and our world?
Part Two: Michael Lubelfeld
Part Three: Ryan Cordia
Part Four: David Glover
When I was in high school, a half-century ago, I never read a book. I never wrote an essay. I never did homework. I attended fewer than one hundred classes in any given year. I couldn’t work through an algebraic equation, diagram a sentence, explain the meaning of The Great Gatsby, or describe the history of anything outside what I had gleaned from wandering the city.
To be completely honest, my time in high school was filled with sports, consuming intoxicants of various illegalities, working a few part-time jobs, and being with my girlfriend. I was the basic 1970s teenager going nowhere, a typical picture of a secondary school…
