Screen LibraryWhat school could be : insights and inspiration from teachers across America /
Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took a trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to prepare students for a world marked by innovation -- but America's teachers one-upped him. Al...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took a trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to prepare students for a world marked by innovation -- but America's teachers one-upped him. All across the country, he met teachers in ordinary settings doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge. Together, these new ways of teaching and learning offer a vi |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page [223]) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691180618 069118061X |
| Index Number: | LB2822 |
| CLC: | G571.21 |
| Call Number: | G571.21/D587 |
| Contents: | Conventional schools and their contexts -- Real gold amid Fool's gold -- Prepared for what -- The ivory tower -- Letting go -- Social equality -- Human potential -- Doing (obsolete) things better -- Doing better things -- It takes a village -- Reflections. |