Jenee Henry Wooden, Chief Studying Officer at Transcend and co-author of the e book Extraordinary Studying for All: How Communities Design Colleges The place Everyone Thrives, joins host Mike Palmer in a dialog about community-based design and find out how to leap forward previous the commercial mannequin of K12 schooling left over from the twentieth century.
Jenee shares her journey into schooling, which started with a background in worldwide economics and led her to Train for America to turn into a trainer and advocate for college students voice and trainer/neighborhood empowerment. We focus on the constraints of the standard “industrial” mannequin of schooling and discover the idea of community-based design, the place faculties companion with college students, mother and father, and the broader neighborhood to create studying experiences which are related, partaking, and empowering.
Key Takeaways:
- The present design of college is a 100-year-old mannequin that must be redesigned to fulfill the wants of at this time’s learners.
- Studying experiences must be related, partaking, and customised to every scholar’s wants.
- Neighborhood-based design brings collectively college students, mother and father, educators, and neighborhood members to create a shared imaginative and prescient for schooling.
- Colleges must be studying engines that continuously evolve to fulfill the altering wants of scholars and society.
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Episode References
Samouha, A., Wetzler, J., Wooden, J. H., & Canada, G. (2024). Extraordinary Studying for All: How Communities Design Colleges The place Everybody Thrives (1st version). Jossey-Bass.
