Redesigning School
There's a secret hidden in plain sight: school doesn't work for many, many students because, to a large extent, today’s schools were built for yesterday’s world. Schools still prioritize teaching over learning, conformity over agency, memorization over application, testing knowledge over using it, grading over growing, competition over collaboration, stress over engagement, the what over the why. What would happen, though, if we designed school with students and the future in mind? Every other Wednesday, parents, students, and fellow teachers should join Terry Dubow, Garet Libbey, and Julia Griffin as they interview experts, students, and educators, and explore ways to redesign school for changed world.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 41
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
You Ask; We Answer: FAQs about the MSH
Recently, the Mastery School of Hawken hosted our newly accepted families for a Covid-safe on campus event during which they could tour the buildings, speak to faculty, and experience a bit of the pe…
Lessons and Tips for a Remote Learning Winter
Now that it’s winter break, we all have a chance to take a breath and reflect a bit about the fall and just what we accomplished and what it asked of faculty, students, and families. And just in tim…
Live Episode! Life and Justice at the Mastery School of Hawken
Recently, the Mastery School of Hawken hosted a virtual Open House that invited members of the community to learn more about the school, its values, and its ambitions. As a part of of the program, th…
What Schools Can Build by Teaching Architecture
As schools consider ways to redesign their approach and programming, they might want to investigate a field that likely does not appear in the established curriculum: architecture.
While teaching arc…
How to Build Civil Civic Citizenship: A Conversation with Facing History and Ourselves
ReDesigning School is not a political podcast -- there are enough of those -- but a few days before the 2020 election, Terry Dubow and Garet Libbey sat down (virtually of course) with Laura Tavares, …
We're Launched! -- Notes on Opening the Mastery School of Hawken
It's been a long time coming. The Mastery School of Hawken was a mere idea a few years ago, and now it's a thriving school with students, faculty, and an approach that upends how school generally wor…
Opening School During a Pandemic
And we're back.
Here at ReDesigning School, we've had our collective heads down for the past months, and now we're ready to look up.
As have many in schools across the world, the Hawken administration…
A Faster Future: How Schools Can Help Their Youngest Students
The transition to remote teaching and learning has surely stretched all teachers, students, and parents, but something distinctly challenging is happening in lower schools. To keep younger students e…
Creating Community During Covid
In the latest edition of our series on Remote Teaching and Learning, we wrestle with the whys and hows of creating inclusive, dynamic, and meaningful community while we're all working away from each …
How to Do PBL while RTL?
Problem-based, place-based, project-based -- pick your P to accompany your BL. These days, many teachers are trying to figure out how to adjust their experiential learning plans when our shared exper…
We Can Do This: Lessons on Remote Learning from Eric Hudson
Eric Hudson, Director of Learning and Design at Global Online Academy, has been at this distance learning thing for years, and he has wisdom to share. He joined the podcast to share important backgro…
We're All ReDesigners Now: Transitioning to Remote Teaching and Learning
A not so funny thing happened on the way to summer this year...
The global pandemic has disrupted the world as we know it, which has led all of us to reimagine, reconfigure, and redesign our lives. F…
A Revolution in Progress: An Update from the Mastery Transcript Consortium
A few days before schools closed and social distancing began, we spoke with Stacy Caldwell, CEO of the Mastery Transcript Consortium. She shared a lot of good news about how quickly and successfully …
So, We Have a School: An Update on the Mastery School of Hawken
Last month, we hosted the first cohort of accepted students at the Mastery School of Hawken for an evening of celebration and gratitude. It was quite a night and a key marker between the dream of a n…
But What about College?
The landscape of college admissions is always complicated, so what happens when you add in paradigm shifts like mastery learning and the Mastery Transcript? To answer that and other questions, we in…
School Shouldn't Hurt: A Conversation with Denise Pope of Challenge Success
The data around mental and emotional health in schools and college campuses are sobering -- to say the least. As we redesign school, we should think about ways for it to challenge, stretch and inspir…
Schools are a Changin': An Interview with Grant Lichtman
"Education is undergoing a period of dramatic evolution," Grant Lichtman writes in his new book Thrive. "The number of options families have for their children’s education is expanding at a rate neve…
Building a School that Feels
We know the story: high school can be an emotional rollercoaster for some (or most or many or all…) students. What if we designed school with emotional and psychological health in mind? That's one of…
Live Episode! Macros, Real-World Challenges, and Water Balloon Catapults
On November 17, 200 or so people gathered at The Mastery School of Hawken's Open House. We thought it was a great time to take the pod out of the studio and record an episode in front of a live audie…
Meet the Team: Nick Cheadle, Language Lover and World Traveler
In our final installment of our Meet the Team episodes, meet Nick Cheadle, Spanish teacher and intrepid traveler. Nick joined Hawken this fall and serves as a key member of the design team for the Ma…