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Guiding Students Toward Self-Actualization: What Now? Ep. 3 With Danielle Jackson

Guiding Students Toward Self-Actualization: What Now? Ep. 3 with Danielle Jackson

  • November 30, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, What Now? Video Interviews
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In the context of a global pandemic, what happens to the priorities of our education system? At U Prep Schools, reorganizing learning during the pandemic has meant centering and elevating existing priorities around human relationship and self-actualization. "Rather than taking…

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Upgrading An Outdated Education System: What Now? Ep. 2 With David Britten

Upgrading an Outdated Education System: What Now? Ep. 2 with David Britten

  • November 19, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, What Now? Video Interviews
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Just a few years before his retirement, superintendent David Britten knew that there was something our education system wasn't getting right. He felt then that, "I know what learning is about, but I don't know how to package that into…

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Announcing What Now? Video Interviews, Episode I: Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Announcing What Now? video interviews, episode I: Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  • November 12, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, What Now? Video Interviews
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We're excited to announce our brand new video interview series, which will explore issues where the coronavirus pandemic helps us see things in a new light. What Now? asks: how should we navigate through this pandemic, and ensure a more…

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Our Turn To Learn: Alumni Tracking, Adapting, And The “Book Scholarship” Program (A Guest Post From Benjamin Carson High School)

Our Turn to Learn: Alumni Tracking, Adapting, and the “Book Scholarship” Program (A Guest Post from Benjamin Carson High School)

  • October 15, 2020
  • Sean Henry
  • Blog, Talent
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We're pleased today to share this post from Sean Henry, the College Transition Advisor at Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine. Michigan Future helped to secure book scholarship funding for BCHS, thanks to the generous support of the…

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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