Last month we launched this blog, Education Innovating, where you’ll find us following and reporting how folks are innovating to get beyond ‘traditional school’ across the United States.
In its first weeks our readers have learned from guest bloggers Lynn Nordgren, president of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, and...
Editor’s note: Each Friday we feature guest bloggers that are involved in rethinking what is possible with schooling and the education system.
The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has led in the development of a new law that allows districts to form independent, autonomous schools. And they have used the law to create a teacher-run school.
Lynn Nordgren, President of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, is a guest contributor this week to Education Innovating.
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From the Detroit Free Press today, an example of what we have been talking about regarding teachers taking the initiative--and control--for improvement.
Image: Detroit Free Press
Join social media journalist and educational entrepreneur Steve Hargadon tonight, 8pm EST for a live and interactive with Ted Kolderie on education reform and teachers as partners in school organization.
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If you’ve been following Education Innovating, perhaps you’ve been generating questions...
We assert at Education|Evolving that the inability of teachers to professionally control what matters for learning is at the root of the K-12 system’s difficulty.
Having been unable to secure professional status and economic security for members through negotiation or legislation, it is in the unions’ interest to suggest the country cut this new deal with its teachers. For teachers the appealing opportunity is to re-frame the debate; to leverage the “accountability” pressure in a way that will help win them professional...
Bob Wedl, partner with Education|Evolving, was involved with the passage of Minnesota’s new Site-Governed Schools (SGS) law that allows districts to create schools with autonomy similar to chartered schools in that state. He also helped teachers in Minneapolis to bring forth the first proposal under the new law, last year.
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In 2009 the Minnesota legislature created a new statewide platform for the creation of new schools. The Site-Governed Schools law allows for the creation of schools inside districts that enjoy the same autonomy and exemption from state regulation as schools in the chartering sector.
Education|Evolving contends that placing this authority in state law is critical to sustaining a district’s commitment to new and...
Perhaps the best of the interviews with outgoing Minneapolis Superintendent Bill Green was the one by Beth Hawkins, which appeared in the online newspaper MinnPost. Beth's story headlined Green's comment about the need to vary the approach to learning—by school or even by student.
MP: Is there any tightly held belief you have...
Carrie Bakken is a member of a teacher professional partnership (TPP) that runs Avalon High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Through a TPP teachers run the school themselves much as partners do in law, medicine, and other professional industries.
This compelling article discusses a...
With the launch of iPhone 4 this week, we move one step further along in the growing disconnect between the capabilities of technology and their prohibition in traditional factory-style of schools.
This cover of Education|Evolving strategy paper illustrates well the progression of telecommunications compared to the progression of school design:
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