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Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools

Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools

Making public schools humane places where deep learning happens, by authors who've done the work in every kind of school.

2018

Chad Ratliff, et al.

Chad Ratliff, Ira David Socol, et al.

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Systemic Anachronisms in Schools

When we refuse to understand the cognitive changes driven by technological change. Excerpt from Designed to Fail: A History of Education in…

Nov 13

Book Cover of Designed to Fail, a History of Education in the United States.

Nov 13

The only obvious solutions were to (a) blame the kids — especially immigrant children, or (b) fudge…

Designed to Fail: A History of Education in the United States by Ira David Socol will be available in print and via Kindle on November 7…

Nov 5

Cover: Designed to Fail. Order on Kindle now, or on paper on November 7.

Nov 5

If you do get interested in something, anything, you are interrupted continually — not by…

Designed to Fail: A History of Education in the United States by Ira David Socol will be available in print and via Kindle on November 7…

Nov 4

Cover: Designed to Fail. Order on Kindle now, or on paper on November 7.

Nov 4

Published in
Teachers on Fire Magazine

These rarely examined norms are neither truly traditional nor research-based.

Designed to Fail: A History of Education in the United States by Ira David Socol will be available in print and via Kindle on November 7…

Nov 3

Cover: Designed to Fail. Order on Kindle now, or on paper on November 7.

Nov 3

The Children of the Children We Lied To

High Schools in the United States are about to be filled with the children of the children of No Child Left Behind, the children of the…

Apr 29

Book: Lessons From the Great Recession: Policymakers Must Reject Deep Budget Cuts For A Strong Recovery. Link: https://www.mdeconomy.org/recession-budget-cuts/

Apr 29

As Carnegie Pushes Against the Carnegie Unit.

What might Ella Flagg Young tell Carnegie Foundation President Tim Knowles?

Mar 25

As Carnegie Pushes Against the Carnegie Unit.

Mar 25

When Women Lead as Women

International Women’s Day and How Schools are Run.

Mar 8

Helen Parkhurst with Dalton School students on her radio program, late 1940s.

Mar 8

Designed to Fail (6): a history of American education

Part Six: Does America like its children? Unfortunately, that’s the conflict we all face.

Feb 29

“How do you know they’re doing anything?” Observers in our multiage spaces (in this case, 130 K-5 students with 6 teachers) often could not figure out what was happening. The student agency was not school-as-they-knew-how-to-see-it.

Feb 29

Designed to Fail (7): a history of American education

An Afterword: These were never good ideas, and these were never good intentions.

Feb 29

Designed to Fail (7): a history of American education

Feb 29

Designed to Fail (5): a history of American education

Part Five: The Anachronisms —A bad 19th-Century Design is Threaded through Everything We Do. Cognition, Technology, and the Environment of…

Feb 26

Carnegie Summit 2024 — link: https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/carnegie-summit/ our presentation: Transforming Beliefs, Transforming Practice, Creating Equitable Schools Everywhere

Feb 26

Ira David Socol

Ira David Socol

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Author, Dreamer, Educator: A life in service - NYPD, EMS, disabilities/UDL specialist, tech and innovation leader for education. Co-author of Timeless Learning

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