A New We: The Essential Intersection of Freire, Ed Tech and Parent Involvement
If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Aboriginal Woman We Need a New We One of the greatest tragedies of education reform is how little it involves parents. Proposed initiatives with the intent to engage parents rarely move beyond rhetoric. Those that move beyond rhetoric stumble in follow-through, start engagement late, or wait until there is an issue. I ha
A Framework: Scaling High Quality in Education Is Doable
I'm interested in reaching the greatest number of students possible with the best service possible. Best Buy and McDonald's can do it, why can't education? Scaling high-quality solutions has been and remains one of my greatest passions in doing education work especially in struggling schools. The reality is, however, that "mass producing" educated human beings is very different from mass producing burgers on a bun. When dealing with kids, you have to constantly reassess the
