What school could be : insights and inspiration from teachers across America

What school could be Insights and inspiration from teachers across America

Ted Dintersmith

Book - 2018

Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took a trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to prepare students for a world marked by innovation -- but America's teachers one-upped him. All across the country, he met teachers in ordinary settings doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge. Together, these new ways of teaching and learning offer a vision of what school could be -- and a model for transforming schools throughout the United States. Better yet, teachers and parents don't have... to wait for the revolution to come from above. They can readily implement small changes that can make a big difference. America's clock is ticking. Our archaic model of education trains our kids for a world that no longer exists, and accelerating advances in technology are eliminating millions of jobs. But the trailblazing of many American educators gives us reasons for hope. Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, Dintersmith provides a realistic and profoundly optimistic roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools.

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Subjects
School improvement programs.
Educational accountability.
Education and state.
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Ted Dintersmith (author)
Physical Description
xxii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 223) and index.
ISBN
9780691180618
  • Prologue
  • Glossary of Abbreviations
  • 1. Conventional Schools and Their Contexts
  • 2. Real Gold amid Fool's Gold
  • 3. Prepared for What
  • 4. The Ivory Tower
  • 5. Letting Go
  • 6. Social Equity
  • 7. Human Potential
  • 8. Doing (Obsolete) Things Better
  • 9. Doing Better Things
  • 10. It Takes a Village
  • Reflections
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Library Journal Review

Dintersmith (producer of the documentary Most Likely To Succeed and coauthor of the book of the same name) took a deep look inside America's classrooms by taking a yearlong trip to every state in the nation to visit schools of all types (public, private, and charter) and meet with concerned parties (teachers, parents, students, and government officials). Dintersmith here shows the creative highs and mind-numbing lows of schooling today, contending that 19th-century education pedagogies cannot accommodate 21st-century needs. He outlines four principles for students to thrive: purpose, essentials, agency, and knowledge (PEAK). With stories extracted from his travels and additional commentary, Dintersmith breaks down just how schools that apply these PEAK principles are not only meeting the needs of students but also preparing them for the future. Even with the engaging first-person accounts, the text overall gets a bit repetitive and in the end, it is up to the reader to decide how these approaches can be put into action. VERDICT For creative thinkers who are willing to change education with a vision that pushes back against centuries of entrenched value systems.-Rachel Wadham, Brigham Young Univ. Libs., Provo, UT © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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