{"data":{"ID":588,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446419062,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Getting to the Heart of Education: Relationships that Revolutionize School Culture","Handle":"getting_to_the_heart_of_education--relationships_that_revolutionize_school_culture","ShortDescription":"We are on a mission to upend traditional education from teacher driven instruction to student driven  learning.  Potent evidence has exposed the former model as a failure, yet most public and independent schools still cling to it.  Working within the current paradigm, we attempt to influence one heart at a time.","Description":"Student-centered instruction is not a flash in the pan trend; it is here to stay. It is  the linchpin of 21st century teaching and learning. If our students are to thrive in an unpredictable future, it is time to shift instruction--and to keep shifting instruction--with their authentic interests foremost in mind.\r\n\r\nThe McLean School Head, Mike Saxenian, envisions a place  where students have agency and authority over their learning, not only answering questions, but asking questions of themselves and each other.  We are working with classroom teachers to realize this vision, evolving from an inherited industrial age model, with students often \u201csitting and getting\u201d... and  \u201cgiving\u201d the correct answer. Middle School Academic Technologist, Mike Carson, and Instructional Coach, Kate Rizzi, form partnerships with faculty members to alter the culture from inside their school. \r\n\r\nWith our colleagues, we hope to create a  learning community in which all members share, reflect on, and learn from their successes and failures.  We have just begun, but we can see small, positive steps towards student-driven learning.  We will share what we have learned from this process of self-reflection and mutual support.  Where are you in the process of revolutionizing education?  What have you learned?  How can we support  one another?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will share several short highlights of our work, along with examples of challenges we experience at our growing edge. We will ask participants to identify and talk about where they are in the process of initiating reflective teaching practices in their schools. Serving as facilitators, we will join our Educon colleagues in learning with and from each other.","Presenter":["Kate Rizzi","Mike Carson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["McLean School of Maryland"],"PresenterEmail":["krizzi@mcleanschool.org","mcarson@mcleanschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}