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
Preparing for the Jobocalypse
No one knows for sure what the world of jobs will look like in ten, twenty, thirty years. We do know, though, the world of work is shifting profoundly. The question for schools is what educators shou…
Meet the Team: Janae Peters, English teacher and Empath
We're in the middle of a very heavy and very exciting lift. Not only are we opening a new school next fall, but we're also designing one that will use very different teaching methods and designs than…
Why the Arts Matter and How to be a Good Neighbor
It's a bit of a challenge to write an episode title for a conversation with Daniel Gray-Kontar, Executive Artistic Director of Twelve Literary Arts. This arts organization in historic Glenville on Cl…
Where We Are with the Mastery School of Hawken
What's it like to design a school from the ground floor? Particularly a school that's built on massive paradigm shifts around teaching methods, assessment models, and more? Julia Griffin and Doris Ko…
Meet the Team: Julia Hodges, Engineer and Educator
We're in the middle of a very heavy and very exciting lift. Not only are we opening a new school next fall, but we're also designing one that will use very different teaching methods and designs than…
Meet the Team: Ambrose Faturoti, Community Connector
We're in the middle of a very heavy and very exciting lift. Not only are we opening a new school next fall, but we're also designing one that will use very different teaching methods and designs than…
Making Math Sing
If math is a language, most of us learn it as if it's a dead one, calcified and inscrutable. Some teachers, though, use methods and approaches that make math sing. Hawken teachers Dr. Chris Harrow an…
The F Word
"Everything about the way we structure school communicates that failure is the opposite of success," writes Julia Hodges in The 'F' Word. "You either pass a class or you fail a class; and that pass/f…
Meet the Team: Zack Kordeleski, Physics and Philosophy Aficionado
In our summer series of episodes, we want you to meet the actual human beings at the heart of The Mastery School of Hawken. Third up: Zack Kordeleski, lover of all kinds of games, physics and mathema…
Meet the Team: Katie Zielinski, The Artful Architect
In our summer series of episodes, we want you to meet the actual human beings at the heart of The Mastery School of Hawken. Second up: Katie Zielinski, architecture teacher at Hawken and a key member…
Meet the Team: Dan O'Connor, the Curious Historian
In our summer series of episodes, we want you to meet the actual human beings at the heart of The Mastery School of Hawken. First up: Dan O'Connor, Humanities teacher at Hawken and a key member of th…
Friends in the Revolution
We're not alone! Not by a long shot.
Educators around the world are immersed in rethinking what, how and why we teach and students learn. One school that's starting from scratch is The Revolution Sch…
Google Culture
Google started as a search engine in 1998 and now is an Alphabet valued at three-quarters of a trillion dollars. In between those two moments in time, it transitioned from a mere idea to one of the m…
Doctors Without Boulders: What High Schools Can Learn from Medical Schools that Remove Tests, Grades, and Lectures
It’s hard to think of a field that demands more content acquisition than medicine, so what to make of medical schools that train doctors using problems not tests? Dr. Neil Mehta, Associate Dean for C…
The Job of School when No One Knows what Jobs will Look Like
Every one of our graduates eventually becomes someone else's employee. As we redesign school, how much should we take into account the world of work our students will enter?
You could make the argum…
So, You Want to Build a School
If you haven't heard, we're designing a new school. The Mastery School of Hawken is a new high school in Cleveland’s University Circle designed with students and the future in mind. We’ll welcome ou…
Not Another Project!
When students hear there's a project coming their way, they don't always jump for joy. And yet we know that projects are some of the best tools we have for helping students achieve enduring and deep …
Bringing Back the Joy
Does your school feel like it should rebrand itself as Suffering Academy? When kids are young, play is an essential part of learning, but then something happens that converts play and its black sheep…
Grappling with Grades
Teachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin kick off the inaugural episode of the Redesigning School podcast with a conversation about the role grades play in a student's education and a teac…