This document discusses balancing philosophical and practical approaches in education. It suggests that students thrive when they connect personally with curriculum, experience interactive learning, and have choice in how they learn. The document also addresses resolving the conflict between teaching students and teaching curriculum by having the teacher guide independent discovery. It advocates treating students as capable, creating innovative pedagogical models, and incorporating brain research findings into education.

1. From the
Philosophical to the
Practical

2. Balancing the
Philosophical and the
Practical

3. Books!!
!

4. C: Compliance
21: Attributes from Schools of the
Future
EF : Executive Function Strength
EF : Executive Function Weakness
SE : Social-emotional strength
SE : Social-emotional weakness

5. “Imagination is the other end of
Reality”
K. Hari Kumar
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6. Recall a time when you were really
learning…..

7. STUDENTS THRIVE
• WHEN THEY:
connect personally and emotionally with the
curriculum
WHEN THEY:
experience and interact with curriculum
• WHEN THEY:
participate and have choice in how they learn
and express

9. Born to
Learn

10. Teach
the
Child
Teach the
Curriculu
m
Viewpoi
nt
of the
child
Facts
and
truths of
studies

11. Resolving The Conflict:
The teacher becomes a
partner guiding students to
independently discover
meaning within the subject
area.

12. Joseph Palermo - Pedagogy of the
Depressed
• Can students really be taught critical thinking,
civics, and citizenship skills in a standardized
format that values conformity?
• Why are the ideals that have long been
associated with public higher education being
scrapped in favor of private special interests that
stand to profit from these changes?
• Most people might want to see a real doctor
instead of going to WebMD

13. Joseph Palermo - Pedagogy of the
Depressed
• Access does not replace dialogue, critical
thinking, and learning
• Collective student activities are part of the
learning process
• Better success with real human interaction

14. The premise of our educational system is
that
seat time
is the critical feature of learning.

15. “People can have the Model-T in any
color…”
“… so long as it’s black”

16. Dare to innovate and take risks
“You will miss 100% of the shots
you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretsky

17. Opportunity 1
• Treat students as they
are capable of becoming

18. Verbal
Spatial
Literacy
Math
Performance
Social/Collaboration
Executive
Function
Persistence
Top of
your
school
Bottom
of your
school
Student 1
Verbal
Spatial
Social/Collaborat
ion
Persistence
Student 2
Social/Collaborat
ion
Persistence
EF
Student 3

20. 20
Relatedness Autonomy
Competence
Sweet Spot!

21. Opportunity 2
• Create pedagogical models that are:
▫ Innovative and based on research
▫ But still reflect our past

22. NAIS: Schools Of The Future
22
ANALYTICAL AND
CREATIVE THINKING
AND PROBLEM
SOLVING
COMPLEX
COMMUNICATION -
ORAL AND WRITTEN
LEADERSHIP AND
TEAMWORKINTEGRITY AND
ETHICAL DECISION
MAKING
GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE
ADAPTABILITY,
INITIATIVE AND RISK-
TAKING
DIGITAL AND
QUANTITATIVE
LITERACY

23. my personal learning network
webinars

24. Just because you are unique, that
doesn’t mean you are useful.
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25. Opportunity 3
• Incorporate brain research of the last decade
▫ Brains are not linear

26. Stress and Fear

27. Hippocampus
Amygdala

28. Motor
Sensory
Visual
Auditory
Executive

30. Processing

31. Plasticity

32. Opportunity 4
Engage in a

33. Mindset Research
• Predicts motivation and achievement
• Narrows the gender gap in math
• Narrows the racial achievement gap
• Correlates with higher grades and test scores
http://www.mindsetworks.com/webnav/whatismindset.aspx