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What I’ve Learned
    Since Writing
   Wounded By School
                Kirsten Olson
                    10.17.12

       Prepared for Steve Hargadon interview
http://www.stevehargadon.com/2012/10/wednesday-
         live-kirsten-olson-on-wounded.html
Message was originally
embargoed, dangerous.
  Now much more
     accepted.
• Joel Klein: “No one says K-12 is doing a
  great job.” (September 2012, Harvard Graduate
  School of Education)
Fundamental Problem
   Still Unsolved
• School toxic to many individuals in it--
  children and adults
• Resource-wasteful, time-sucking, personally
  destructive
• Turns people off to learning
• Systems completely outmoded, floundering
Pockets of brilliance all
  over the country
• Self-Enhancement Academy in Portland, OR
• Minnesota New Country School,
  Henderson MN
• NYC iSchool
• Urban Academy NYC
• Big Picture School, South Burlington VT
How do we put this
  brilliance together?
• Organizing
• Showcasing
• Reclaiming the “values” conversation
• What is the moral purpose of school?
IDEA Values
         (For School)
• Courage/Bravery
• Justice
• Open-mindedness
• Love of learning
• Capacity for perspective-taking
• Compassion
3 Big Paradoxes

•
Pleasure of learning...
will lead us to do
tough intellectual
stuff
2. As “education”
 becomes untethered
from school, place and
community will matter
         more
3. We need to invest
       more in
 community/”place”
   (humans learn in
community) in face of
 worldwide learning
What I’ve Come To
     Believe
1. Sector transformation won’t
         be a one-way,
      but dozens of ways
• “Here comes everybody”
• Grown in communities
• Grown out of core values and what we
  think makes life meaningful
• A “meteor shower” not a blacksmith’s anvil
2. Learning really is
      rocket science
• Every brain is different
• Brain incredibly plastic
• Profoundly influenced by emotion, context
  of learning
• Explosion of neurobiological knowledge
  also explodes old-fashioned school
3. State control of
 content will diminish
• Yet commitment to places of caring for
  young people should increase
• Radical redefinition of role of “teacher”
• We will increasingly teach/model/coach
  how to learn
4. “Choice” masks
  cynical individualism
• Market solutions privilege the already
  privileged
• Reclaim the moral commitment to
  children/young adults
• Make the moral conversation part of the
  discourse
• Caring is cool, caring is effective
Educational centers
        become
• Places of hospitality, community “hearths”
• Places of intellectual exploration
• Places of inspiration and positivity
• Places of creativity and perspective-taking
• Focus on what is best in human beings

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What I've Learned Since Writing Wounded By School

  • 1. What I’ve Learned Since Writing Wounded By School Kirsten Olson 10.17.12 Prepared for Steve Hargadon interview http://www.stevehargadon.com/2012/10/wednesday- live-kirsten-olson-on-wounded.html
  • 2. Message was originally embargoed, dangerous. Now much more accepted.
  • 3. • Joel Klein: “No one says K-12 is doing a great job.” (September 2012, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
  • 4. Fundamental Problem Still Unsolved • School toxic to many individuals in it-- children and adults • Resource-wasteful, time-sucking, personally destructive • Turns people off to learning • Systems completely outmoded, floundering
  • 5. Pockets of brilliance all over the country • Self-Enhancement Academy in Portland, OR • Minnesota New Country School, Henderson MN • NYC iSchool • Urban Academy NYC • Big Picture School, South Burlington VT
  • 6. How do we put this brilliance together? • Organizing • Showcasing • Reclaiming the “values” conversation • What is the moral purpose of school?
  • 7. IDEA Values (For School) • Courage/Bravery • Justice • Open-mindedness • Love of learning • Capacity for perspective-taking • Compassion
  • 8. 3 Big Paradoxes • Pleasure of learning... will lead us to do tough intellectual stuff
  • 9. 2. As “education” becomes untethered from school, place and community will matter more
  • 10. 3. We need to invest more in community/”place” (humans learn in community) in face of worldwide learning
  • 11. What I’ve Come To Believe
  • 12. 1. Sector transformation won’t be a one-way, but dozens of ways • “Here comes everybody” • Grown in communities • Grown out of core values and what we think makes life meaningful • A “meteor shower” not a blacksmith’s anvil
  • 13. 2. Learning really is rocket science • Every brain is different • Brain incredibly plastic • Profoundly influenced by emotion, context of learning • Explosion of neurobiological knowledge also explodes old-fashioned school
  • 14. 3. State control of content will diminish • Yet commitment to places of caring for young people should increase • Radical redefinition of role of “teacher” • We will increasingly teach/model/coach how to learn
  • 15. 4. “Choice” masks cynical individualism • Market solutions privilege the already privileged • Reclaim the moral commitment to children/young adults • Make the moral conversation part of the discourse • Caring is cool, caring is effective
  • 16. Educational centers become • Places of hospitality, community “hearths” • Places of intellectual exploration • Places of inspiration and positivity • Places of creativity and perspective-taking • Focus on what is best in human beings

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