Iterate: The Secret of Innovation in Schools

Abstract

The evolving landscape of democracies, coupled with shifting norms and repertoires of civic engagement, pose diverse and potentially challenging implications for citizenship education in schools and for learning across the lifespan. As researchers and educators, we are considering how to address a range of learning needs emerging from the results and conclusions of political research. In this seminars we will hear from an education innovation scholar and a former civics teacher - Justin Reich, who wrote a playbook for making changes in teaching and learning happen in manageable steps. For 20 years, MIT Professor Justin Reich has worked in schools on all kinds of projects: transforming curriculum, integrating technology, re-engaging students, making school meaningful and relevant to young people and families. Across these experiences, every successful school improvement effort has one thing in common: they all improve one step at time. Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools is a playbook for making big, joyful changes in schools out of small, manageable steps. Iterate reflects insights about design, collaboration, and improvement from educators around the world, and from colleagues at MIT. For learning science, new technologies, and innovative theories to make a difference in the world, they have to make their way into the hands of classroom educators. Iterate offers new ideas for improving learning in classrooms, schools, or wherever you work to make learning better. Justin Reich https://tsl.mit.edu/team/justin-reich/ Director of MIT Teaching Systems Lab, Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Author of 'Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools’ https://tsl.mit.edu/books/iterate/ Co-producer of a MOOC for adults who want to support youth activism www.youthinfront.org Host of TeachLab Podcast with a currently running series 'Civics 101' & 'Teacher Speech and the New Divide'. Civics 101: Civics Education 1 - What Do We Teach? https://www.teachlabpodcast.com/civics101-1/ Teacher Speech and the New Divide https://www.teachlabpodcast.com/teacher-speech-e1/