Re-envisioning learning

Chambers, Julia

Faust, S. & Howland, J. (2013, June). Design thinking by accident and design: How one school developed a model for 21st-century learning (and a librarian and technology teacher led the way). Teacher Librarian 40(5). Retrieved from http://plc.quickmooc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/07/Susan-Faust-and-Jenny-Howland.pdf

This is an inspiring article about one school’s journey into 21st century learning, led by the school librarian and technology teacher. The article describes the process, which was initiated by the head of school and then taken to its new level by the grassroots work of this team of educators. The article provides details of how this was done, the people involved, including board members, teachers, and students.

Evaluation: I was inspired to see that the school librarian/technology teacher were the ones to successfully initiate the head of school’s challenge to reimagine learning and change the paradigm from “teaching” to “learning”. Because their fingers are involved in every grade, every classroom, and every student’s learning, they are the natural choice for taking on this initiative successfully.