The 50 stories
gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink
Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolc
Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about
everything else, to a culture of
learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolc
learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful
learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolc
learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.
You need to carefully research and set
learning objectives, collaborate with subject matter experts,
gather together your assets, and actually bring
everything together into an engaging package.
Implement improvement plans rigorously and with fidelity, and, since
everything will not go perfectly,
gather actionable data and information during implementation; evaluate efforts and monitor evidence to
learn what is working, for whom, and under what circumstances
Some of our work was relatively easy:
gathering Associate Editors to review and assist the ten - plus authors in polishing their articles on
everything from structuring how we teach students and otherwise improving our courses to
learning theory, writing for judges, and the difficult topic of depression and anxiety in law students.