Have a Good Life: Education Reimagined with Kelly Young Transformative Principal 262

Education Reimagined with Kelly Young Transformative Principal 262

Sunday, January 20, 2019 by jethrojones

Kelly Young is the Executive Director at Education Reimagined, where they seek to help educators create a learner-centered learning environment.

Non profit in Washington, D.C. that figures out how we can accelerate the transition from school-centered to student-centered
All kids and outcomes that are actually relevant.
A whole new way of seeing education.
Learning is a natural phenomenon.
Unfurl students’ unique potential.
Shifting from the transfer of knowledge to the investigation of unknown knowledge
Einstein National Geographic.
Asking teachers about passionate learning experiences that they had.
Had people that cared about them and what they learned.
Great learning experiences rarely happen in a classroom setting.
Relevant to what kids need to learn.
Why is it so hard for educators to let this go?
It’s what we experienced and what we know.
Maybe there is something wrong with me.
When you’re really struggling with a student, ask what might I do differently and what role can the kids take in fixing the problem.
It always feels risky to invite kids into the conversation.
Iowa BIG - architecture project.
He didn’t have the words to describe what he was missing.

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