I posed this question to our students in the Arkansas Leadership Academy Student Voice Institute, and their task was to create a presentation sharing what schools should look like through the lens of students. Click To Tweet Let’s ask the experts: teachers and students. Why, you may ask? Because currently, our systems not preparing all students for success.
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What would schools look like if you had the opportunity to reinvent or restructure schools, but the result was a setting where all students are prepared for their individual futures? This is a question that I often ask participants in our professional development opportunities, and who better to give feedback than those who live it every day-teachers and students? It is time to begin conversations about school restructuring and transformation. What is our “need” today? Is it the same need as when schools were developed many years ago? If I crossed paths with you in the white donut aisle of the local grocery store (this is where you will often find me) and asked you to share with me the purpose of school, what would you say? I would hope that we all would agree that, simply put, the purpose of our schools is to prepare all students to be successful in life-emphasis on the word “all.” Of course, there is much research about the “ history of education.” But I often wonder what that initially looked like? Were the adults sitting around the dinner table watching the children make so many “uneducated” decisions that one person piped up, “We need to create some sort of structured environment where our children can be educated?” Of course, I am simplifying this, but remember, all developments begin with a need. It was their responsibility to create this organized learning structure.
Would the result mirror our schools’ current reality? What would you keep? Would you modify anything? Are there components you would eliminate? At one point in history, this task was given to a community of people. You are given the task of reinventing or restructuring what schools look like.
It is time to begin conversations about school restructuring and transformation.
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