Tag: Change Strategy

Waiting for Superman has really drawn attention to the hunger that families have for good schools. Bill Gates (and others) talk in the documentary about the DC education system as something that does things, rather than a collection of people doing things. But if the goal is to have more good schools like those that parents in the movie want to go to, how will this be done?

A new study finds that very few low-performing schools end up being shut down. There may be a different, more effective approach to closing chronically under performing schools: providing alternatives.

The development and interest in iPads is another demonstration of how advanced electronics have become, and are working their way into the lives of so many people today. But we also need to re-imagine what is possible with schooling. Is the job of teacher about compliance, or rethinking learning? Is the task of running a school about compliance, or about rethinking operations to work best?

One school has found that the best way to think about the presence of cell phones in school is to rethink the problem. Instead of banning cell phones, the students elected to instead ban disruptive behavior.