On my first day of teaching 27 years ago, I entered the high school auditorium with 150 other teachers. I was expecting magic! I was pumped up to start my career and learn something new in the first three days before learners walked through the door. As I walked in the auditorium, I noticed something peculiar. The front half of…
Category: Mass Customized learning
Snipping Arrogance out of the Old Operating System of Education
Everyone you ever meet knows something you don’t. –Bill Nye My uncle spent his career as a gym teacher. He was one of those teachers that could get kids to do more than they thought they could do themselves…he always had kids in the gym doing something. The kids that went to the gym to hang out before or after…
3 Questions Every Educational Leader Needs to Ask to Create Dignity in Their Schools
This is the third in the series of transforming to a new operating system in education. As discussed in previous posts, the old operating system creates despair for those working and living in it, and has as its foundation principle competition as a motivating factor. A result of despair and competition is apathy…the third foundational principle of the old operating…
3 Questions to Start your Mass Customized Learning Journey
“This is not a program…you have to change your philosophy” perfectly encapsulates the difficulty some educators may experience with Mass Customized Learning. There are two facts we must remember about Mass Customized learning: First, MCL is not a program but a journey. A journey toward restructuring the educational system. Second, MCL is uncompromisingly learner centered. The ramifications of of these…