“Tuned In” to the Future with Tony WagnerA surprise package arrived at 11-year-old Tony Wagner’s house that permanently impacted his understanding of learning. Decades later, after a career that included twenty years of thought leadership at Harvard University and multiple best-selling books on school reform, Wagner connects the dots to the essential 21st century skills our schools are missing. Tony Wagner is one of the nation’s leading educational reformers. His books·      The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need- And What We Can Do About It·      Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World·      Most Likely To Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Eramake the case for modernizing schools to focus on innovation and creative problem-solving skills. In our conversation he shares the learning experiences that shaped him and the challenges that our schools face as they try to prepare young people for a rapidly changing world.We cover a lot of territory including:3:15 The experience that forever changed 11-year-old Tony6:50 Persistence creates a EUREKA moment!8:15 Failure---Persistence---Curiosity---Learning9:50 The genesis of Tony’s writing career11:35 Tony’s writing teacher who wasn’t really his teacher13:38 The piece of classic literature that provided Tony’s “a-ha moment”15:15 The difference between Tony and Daniel Pink as students17:10 Reflecting on Ted Sizer’s Coalition of Essential Schools reform movement19:58 The destructive impact of standardized testing20:35 The stunning insights from conversations with business and military leaders22:25 How schools kill innovation thinking24:38 Why innovation and creative problem solving are so essential26:17 A simple suggestion for teachers to nurture creativity28:18 The tremendous damage of the accountability movement30:43 The future of schools and the need for business leaders to speak out32:40 Play, Passion, and Purpose Tony Wagner’s Website: https://www.tonywagner.comTony’s Books: https://www.tonywagner.com/books My favorite Tony Wagner quotes (discussed at 22:16)·      "Not only are we not developing and cultivating creative geniuses in our schools, we may actually be doing the opposite."·      "The culture of schooling is radically at odds with the culture of learning that creates innovators."About Experience MattersExperience Matters with Steve Shapiro invites guests to reflect on the most profound learning experiences of their youth and to consider how we can reform American schools. Each episode provides clues about how parents and educators alike can engage young people in powerful, sometimes transformational experiential learning. Education can take many forms, but whatever form it takes- experience matters.

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