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The best way to judge a program is to look at the person directing it. I once taught briefly at the University of California at Irvine, a small program that was run at the time by the wonderful writer Geoffrey Wolff. He controlled everything magnificently. He did a meticulous job choosing both the faculty and the students, oversaw a financial aid p
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JACK OF ROUGH DRAFTS, MASTER OF CRAFTS When I asked a handful of education pioneers to name the best teacher of rethinking they’ve ever encountered, I kept hearing the same name: Ron Berger.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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Lance Izumi • Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom
Ron Berger or rewrite a textbook with Erin McCarthy.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
the literature class, the teaching assistants were told to cover two novels (any two novels, any of them), two plays (one Shakespeare and one contemporary), some short stories, and a section on poetry. We were given two days of group instruction, a class schedule, a room number, and that was it. We were on our own. It was terrifying, and I learned
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The top quartile of students can skip grades. The top 2% of students can do an entire multi year curriculum in *weeks*.
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At Garfield Elementary, kindergartners sit in a circle and discuss conflicts with parents at home and how to respond to them. “Mommy, I don’t like when you scream at me,” a five-year-old boy learns to express through role play, with help from his peers.