Education Reimagined

A Space for Risk

Ira David Socol, Cheryl Ann (Walchack) Harris, John Michael Thornton II

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9798216271345
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is understanding a Shakespeare play, figuring out an algorithm, or writing a theory of history - that engaged learners make breakthroughs, be those breakthroughs individual, group, or societal.



In this book, three experienced practitioners describe how to re-imagine teaching spaces - conventional schools - as learning spaces, spaces where risk is encouraged, celebrated, and actually taught in every area of endeavor: from how, where, or if to sit, to how to find the right pathway to learning. In bringing the stories of a central office Innovation director together with an elementary teacher and administrator and a veteran secondary teacher leader, Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk demonstrates how fundamental change is possible in any school

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 A Risk Worth Taking
• 2 Getting Started
• 3 Creating a Learning Space
• 4 Teacher Autonomy
• 5 Growth Mind-Set
• 6 Creating a Vision
• 7 Sharing the Vision
• 8 Changing the Learning Space
• 9 Financial Awareness
• 10 Radical Leadership
• 11 Decision-Making
• 12 The Learning Space and Student Autonomy in the Classroom
• 13 A Different Vision of Risk
• 14 Elementary School Learning Spaces
• 15 Middle School Learning Spaces
• 16 High School Learning Spaces
• About the Authors