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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

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

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…

6 min read3 days ago

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

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As Carnegie Pushes Against the Carnegie Unit.

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

3 min readMar 25, 2024

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As Carnegie Pushes Against the Carnegie Unit.

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

When Women Lead as Women

International Women’s Day and How Schools are Run.

5 min readMar 8, 2024

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

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

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

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

26 min readFeb 29, 2024

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“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.

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

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

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

8 min readFeb 29, 2024

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

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

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…

43 min readFeb 26, 2024

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

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Ira David Socol
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Teachers on Fire Magazine

Designed to Fail (4): a history of American education

Part Four: Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Those with Wealth and Power have No Reason to Help Make Public Education Work.

25 min readFeb 22, 2024

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Life Magazine 1958: “Schoolboys point up a U.S. weakness.” In a nation that supposedly hated communism — the hero worship of Soviet education stands out. Link to inaccessible content: https://books.google.com/books?id=PlYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Ira David Socol
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Teachers on Fire Magazine

Designed to Fail (3): a history of American education

Part Three: In a system designed to fail 80% of its students, only the amazing commitment of educators gets us to where we are today. Why…

21 min readFeb 19, 2024

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A pre-revolutionary French peasant carries the nobility on it’s back. An 18th century cartoon. Those with wealth, power, and status always depend on the work, efforts, and money of those “below” them.

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

Designed to Fail (2): a history of American education

Part Two: Why do we believe our system is not just good; it was inevitable? How our schools became agents of nativist Calvinist capitalism…

18 min readFeb 15, 2024

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The Horatio Alger Myth — here his book “Sink or Swim” — was a vital part of the conversion of capitalist purpose to Christian National Belief

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Teachers on Fire Magazine

Designed to Fail: (1): a history of American education

Part One: Why do we have the schools we have?

12 min readFeb 12, 2024

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The classroom master lecturing small children under a banner reading “as the twig is bent” — Education Systems Were First Designed to Suppress Dissent. Link: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/education-systems-were-first-designed-to-suppress-dissent

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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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