An Education Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How Radical Changes Can Spark Student Excitement and Success

ISBN-13: 9780807763391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 151 str.

Yong Zhao; Trina E. Emler; Anthony Snethen

Spis treści

• Contents
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction 
• Entrepreneurship and Personalizable Education 2
• “Yes, but . . .” 3
• “Yes,  and . . .” 4
• Plan of the Book 6
• 1. Radical Changes Led by Students 9
• A Great School Invented by a Group of Unhappy Students 9
• The Independent Project in Practice 10
• Children Are Capable 16
• Students Desire Autonomy: Deschooling Education 19
• Get Out of the Way  22
• 2. Radical Changes in the Classroom 25
• Teaching Without a Rudder 25
• The Teacher Who Used to Hate School 29
• The Teacher Who Accidentally Created a Miracle 31
• A 19-Hour Drive Starts a Global Enterprising Educator  34
• Challenge the Status Quo 36
• 3. Radical Changes in Broken Schools 39
• A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste 39
• Challenging the Grammar of Schooling 42
• Learning Entrepreneurship Skills with a Safety Net 49
• Out with the Old, in with the New: Taking on the Challenges 53
• 4. Radical Changes in Successful Schools 57
• New Measures of Success 58
• Why Good Schools Change 60
• How Good Schools Change 62
• A Challenge for All Good Schools 77
• 5. Radical Changes Within Networks of Schools 79
• Banding Together to Leverage Change 79
• The Annesley Remaking  80
• The Rudolph Group: Networked to Innovate 82
• The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Possible Solutions 89
• Challenging the Education Norm of Isolated Institutions 92
• 6. Radical Changes from Outside 95
• Support for Students and Teachers from Real-World Scholars 95
• Bringing Entrepreneurship to the Classroom 98
• The Magic Is Not in the Money 101
• What Works 103
• Collaboration Is Key 105
• Student-Centered, Student-Run 107
• What Happens When Teachers Say, “Yes,  and” 110
• 7. “Yes, and . . .”  113
• Characteristics of Changes and Change Makers Needed in Education 113
• The Changes 113
• Change Can Happen Anywhere 121
• Characteristics That Spark Ignition 122
• Creating a Culture of “Yes, and” 126
• References  131
• Index 139
• About the Authors 151