HeyJaredChristina Kottmann
Exploring the systemic barriers and beliefs that hold back reform and compromise wellbeing in education.
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Examine the Box labeled SCHOOL (opens the original)
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There’s a recurring debate around this question, “What is the purpose of education?” and adjacently, “What is the purpose of school?” But these are both the wrong questions because the answer to “what” is simple: the purpose is becoming.The actual question we’re arguing is, “How does the purpose of education (becoming) happen?” And we also know the many answers to that, including career-readiness skillssocial awarenessknowledge of how the world worksself-managem
Schools Can’t Be the Only Pillar Left (opens the original)
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What the Future Can Teach Us about Designing a Better Education System (opens the original)
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The Past is Not What it SeemsIt’s clear that the education system(s) that many nations have now are not providing the experiences we want for our youngest generations. In searching for options from which to restructure the education system, there’s a tendency to look back at the past, and romanticize it.The past versions of education can seem idyllic. We read about the traditions passed down, of learning within the local community from wise elders, and of being in connection with the local ecolo
Education Upholds a Paradox (opens the original)
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The mind’s ability to believe in survival despite present circumstances has always been interesting to me, and a recent podcast that mentioned the “Stockdale Paradox” reignited this brainwave. It’s pretty normal to form mental assumptions about the personal future and expect ourselves to meet those aspirations, namely to aim toward your higher potential for yourself. This is great in regards to an individual’s internal motivation. To quote a picture book I read a lot in Grade 1, “You have brains
We write about change, but we aren’t the readers who need to pick up the book (opens the original)
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In the conversations I’ve had within the education reform circles, it is clear that we desperately want change in education. We talk endlessly about the ideal schooling experience, we make lists of every challenge to wellbeing, and point to alternative schools as examples that prove we don’t need a magic wand. But I think we’ve been teaching the wrong audience about our reform goals. Our “education section” books are often marketed in two ways, the first is to the individual educators, principal
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