Publications Issue All Student-Centered Learning DesignsEducator Talent PathwaysOutcomes That MatterAutonomy and Shared Power The Split Screen Strategy: How to Turn Education Into a Self-Improving System Book • September 2015 For three decades now, the course of action has been to accept the system as it stands and to push its schools and teachers to deliver ‘better performance’. Perhaps not surprisingly, that effort to get an inert system to do-better has not proved an outstanding success. The theory of action should instead be to turn public education into a self-improving system. A Framework for a Taxonomy of Schools Report • August 2015 Much of the discussion about ‘what’s working’ suggests that students learn because the school is district, charter, parochial or whatever. This is bizarre. Clearly, students learn from what goes on in the school; from its curriculum, pedagogy, materials and teachers. This report begins to sketch a taxonomy that gets at these more meaningful school properties. Fifteen Areas of Autonomy Secured by Teacher-Powered Schools Memo • July 2015 A description of areas of autonomy, assembled while consulting literature and visiting schools during the writing of the book Trusting Teachers with School Success. And, examples of how schools have used those autonomies. The Central Problem with Big, Urban School Systems Like Minneapolis Article • April 2015 A big district like Minneapolis has dozens of schools, and all of them could be innovating. That is, in fact, the strategic plan. But the big brain — the central office — gets in the way. How might the state usefully intervene? A Sunday Commentary for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. What’s the Big Idea? Lots of Little Ones Article • August 2014 To get innovation in K-12 we need to free those closest to the action—the teachers—to innovate and meet the needs of their students. Ted Kolderie draws lessons from World War 2 to make this argument, in a commentary in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Jal Mehta and the Futures of School Reform for Minnesota Meeting Notes • November 2013 “The Futures of School Reform” is a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, coordinated by Jal Mehta. In October 2013, E|E invited Mehta to Minnesota to talk about the five alternative futures. Here are notes on the project from E|E’s Ted Kolderie, and on what he thought was most significant for the education policy discussion in Minnesota. Let’s Give Adolescents a Chance to Grow Up Article • October 2013 The notion of “adolescence” has become a major problem in our society. Might the “infantilization” of capable young people be the cause of much of the deviant behaviors we don’t like? Ted Kolderie takes up this question in an opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Innovation as the Practical Strategy for Change Speech • February 2013 Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, invited Ted Kolderie to discuss “The Role of Innovation in the Charter Movement” with the heads of state charter associations and resource centers. These are his remarks; edited to include some of the points made in the hour-long discussion that followed. A Split Screen Strategy: Creating the Capacity for Teachers to Innovate Video • November 2012 A Minnesota teacher took initiative to reimagine what “school” could be. His students seem engaged, and are performing highly. But can his innovation spread in our current education system? Will it even survive? Trusting Teachers With School Success Book • October 2012 Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if trusting teachers, and not controlling them, is the key to school success? Post navigation ← Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 … 17 Next → Stay In Touch Get updates, new publications, fresh analysis, and event invitations in your inbox. First Name Last Name Email Address State What do you want to receive? Monthly newsletter (once per month) Blog posts by email (about two per month) See past newsletters in the archive.
