Moving the Rock - Seven Levers We Can Press to Transform Education

Informationen zum Autor GRANT LICHTMAN is a globally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K-12 education. He is the author of #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education , and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School . Grant shares resources, articles, connections with other schools and innovative programs, and his blog, "The Future of K-12 Education," at www.grantlichtman.com. Klappentext Advance Praise for Moving the Rock"The future comes at us fast -- which means school reformers don't have time to wait. They need real tools in real time. That's why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone -- teachers, parents, administrators, government officials -- intent on helping young people succeed not 'someday,' but today."-- Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind"Grant Lichtman's book is a clear and comprehensive guide to the "what" and the "how" of educational transformation. Organized around essential levers for change, it is a must-read for anyone who wants to make a difference in our schools."--Tony Wagner, Harvard Ilab Expert in Residence, and best-selling author of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators""This book gives me hope for a brighter future in education. Despite the dark clouds imposed by misguided policies, Grant Lichtman diligently tells stories of grass-roots innovations in the classrooms and schools all over the world. Moving the Rock is an inspiring call to action for all educators."--Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas"If you have children, or teach children, or want our children to succeed, this is a must-read book. Grant Lichtman throws down the challenge for all of us; that WE can change education, and he shows us just how successful schools everywhere are overcoming change-killing inertia in our schools."--Todd Rose, best-selling author of The End of Average; Harvard UniversityMoving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Educationgives educators, parents, administrators, students, and other stakeholders a clear paradigm for transforming our outmoded schools into schools that will help our children to meet the challenges of tomorrow.It's no secret that our educational system is stuck. Moving the Rock shows the important roles all of us can play in un-sticking it by moving seven specific levers that will change the focus of education from what we teach to how we learn. Importantly, moving the levers is completely possible today, and in fact is already happening now in many schools.Drawing on research and extensive experience in the education community, Grant Lichtman outlines the seven essential levers that can profoundly change our schools so that we are teaching all our children how to learn, including* Creating the Demand for Better Schools* Building School-Community Learning Laboratories* Encouraging Open Access to Knowledge* Fixing How We Measure Student Success* Teaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know* and moreAt the end of each of each chapter there are one or more challenges, ways that all of us can collectively turn the pioneering work of others into transformation for all our schools. Zusammenfassung Advance Praise for Moving the Rock"The future comes at us fast -- which means school reformers don't have time to wait. They need real tools in real time. That's why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone -- teachers! parents! administrators! government officials -- intent on helping young people succeed not 'someday!' but today."-- Daniel H. Pink! best-selling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind"Grant Lichtman's book is a clear and comprehensive guide to the "what" and the "how" of educational transformation. Organized around essential levers for change! it is a must-read for anyone who wants to ma...

List of contents

Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Foreword
 
Introduction
 
The Why, What, and How of Educational Change
 
Overcoming Inertia
 
Where This Book Takes Us
 
Resources for This Book
 
What We Will Not Cover
 
The Goal Is Deeper Learning
 
A Couple of Other Points
 
Let's Roll
 
Chapter One: The Future of School
 
Redesigning the School Operating System
 
Where the Rock Is Going to Roll
 
How Will the Learning Experience Change?
 
How Will Schools Function Differently?
 
How Will Our Mission Shift?
 
Why Is This Future Inevitable?
 
Chapter Two: Lever #1: Create the Demand for Better Schools
 
Creating Demand at the National Level
 
Creating Demand at the School Level
 
Creating Demand in the Community
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Three: Lever #2: Build School-Community Learning Laboratories
 
Designing for the Real World
 
Spreading Student Confidence in the Thinkabit Lab
 
Partnering with a Giant
 
Going to Scale
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Four: Lever #3: Encourage Open Access to Knowledge
 
The Rise of Open Educational Resources
 
The Problems of OER
 
The Huge Benefits of OER
 
Back to Wolfram Alpha: The (Kind of Scary?) Future of Open Knowledge
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Five: Lever #4: Fix How We Measure Student Success and Admit Students to College
 
We Don't Measure What We Value
 
The Health of Our Children
 
The Wrong Results
 
Cracks in the Dam
 
Re-Framing the High School Transcript
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Six: Lever #5: Teach the Teachers What They Really Need to Know
 
The Legacy Problem
 
New Models That Work
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Seven: Lever #6: Connect, Flow, and Re-think "School"
 
Change Requires Connectivity
 
The Nurture of Networks
 
Crossing Curves
 
Welcome to the Cognitosphere: A System of Structured "Flow"
 
Great Learning Is Relational
 
The Stepping Stone: Augmented Reality
 
The Game Changer: Virtual Reality
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Eight: Lever #7: Lead Change from Where You Are
 
What Is Missing
 
Sharing the Leadership Experience
 
Formal Training in Leadership
 
Scaling Up
 
How We Will Press This Lever
 
Chapter Nine: How YOU Will Transform Education
 
Teachers
 
School Site and District Administrators
 
Parents
 
Students
 
Business and Community Leaders
 
Philanthropists and Foundations
 
College and University Presidents, Admissions Officers, and Education and Business School Deans and Faculty
 
The Fourth Estate
 
Chapter Ten: Let's Roll
 
What Is Your Extra Chunky?
 
Springtime in the Desert
 
The Bad, Good, and Great News
 
Finally, Trajectory
 
Valuable and Cited Websites
 
Bibliography
 
Index

Product details

• Authors: G Lichtman, Grant Lichtman, Lichtman Grant
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781119404415
• ISBN: 978-1-119-40441-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, Bildungswesen, K-12 General, Allg. Bildungswesen (K-12), K-12