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Author: Sarah Szurpicki

This author has written 77 articles
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Relationships + Meaningful Work -> Engagement -> Learning

Relationships + meaningful work -> engagement -> learning

  • September 17, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

I’m pleased to refer our readers over to a recent opinion piece by journalism professors Andrea Gabor and Vera Haller at CUNY’s Baruch College in New York on what they learned during the spring’s quick pivot to remote learning. I…

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Remote Learning Projects At Out-of-School Programs

Remote Learning Projects at Out-of-School Programs

  • August 27, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

One thing we have learned as we’ve met with people across the state of Michigan about the need to reform education so that students are learning broad skills (we have adopted the 6Cs as the definition of those skills) is…

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Imagining, And Reimagining, Education

Imagining, and Reimagining, Education

  • August 20, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

I’ve been writing recently about both my family’s experience with remote learning this spring, and what's missing from our preparation for remote learning in the 2020-2021 school year. I hope I’ve made the point that remote learning deserves major investment…

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Where Is Our National Task Force On Remote Learning?

Where is our national task force on remote learning?

  • July 31, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

This morning I woke up sure that my kids should go back to school when it reopens in just over a month. Knowing their school is planning outdoor classrooms helps diminish my fear somewhat, so that the risk we’d be…

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What Are The First Principles Of Quality Remote Learning During A Pandemic?

What are the first principles of quality remote learning during a pandemic?

  • July 16, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

It’s hard to sit down to write today about what would make for good remote learning, when my brain wanders to the question everyone is writing—and meme’ing—about, which is whether or not schools can safely reopen for in-person learning. The…

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We Won’t Ever Know How Much The Opportunity Gap Grew During Covid Because We Don’t Measure The Right Outcomes

We won’t ever know how much the opportunity gap grew during covid because we don’t measure the right outcomes

  • July 9, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Last week, I shared observations of my children and their learning during the surprise homeschooling months of the coronavirus pandemic. Now it’s time to overlay an important lens on that experience: my kids are living in almost the best version…

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What Did We Learn About Distance Learning This Spring?

What did we learn about distance learning this spring?

  • July 2, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 2 Comments

It now seems certain that the coronavirus pandemic will be with us well into the 2020-2021 school year, or beyond. While some school districts are starting to release plans, many of these plans still feature large “wait and see” or…

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Let’s Make Rising Income For All Michiganders A Statewide Priority

Let’s make rising income for all Michiganders a statewide priority

  • March 8, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

For the past year, Michigan Future has collaborated with a group of economic and community development leaders from around the state.  Together, this collaborative released a “Rising Income for All” call to action on March 8, 2020, accompanied by the…

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Report From “Outsmarting The Robots”: Part 2

Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 2

  • December 13, 2019
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Last week I wrote about "Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing," an event we co-hosted in October with a number of great partners in Grand Rapids. (Click here for that part 1). Today…

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Report From “Outsmarting The Robots”: Part 1

Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 1

  • December 6, 2019
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Feature, Talent
  • 0 Comments

On October 21, Michigan Future co-hosted a convening in downtown Grand Rapids for 60 community leaders called Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The goals of this half-day event were: To help catalyze…

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