Listen "8. How can a school district transform?"
Episode Synopsis
Chapter 8 of 10.Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about the ways that a school district can transform itself to the personalized, competency-based paradigm of education.Dr. Reigeluth describes some fundamental principles that guide a successful transformation process, such as involving many stakeholders in a learning process that helps them to evolve their mindsets or mental models about education, reaching consensus on values about education for their transformed system to live up to, the kind of leadership needed, and more. Then he describes some specific sequential activities, such as enhancing readiness, bringing in an experienced facilitator, creating a small prelaunch team that later expands into a larger leadership team, and more. Next, he describes continuous activities that should be done throughout the transformation process, such as maintaining trust, motivation, communication, self-evaluation, learning, and more.This episode features Jeff Wetzler from Transcend Education and Scott Frauenheim from Leap Innovations, two non-profit organizations that help school systems to transform.Huge thanks to our Chapter 8 GoFundMe Donors: Fred O'Neal, Eun-Ok Baek, Sinem Aslan, and JiYeon Lee.Special Discount for our Listeners: Receive 20% off the book Vision and Action by Dr. Charles Reigeluth and Dr. Jennifer Karnopp with the exclusive code VA20 when you order directly from SolutionTree.com. This offer is available for a limited time!Give today to our GoFundMe Campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-end-americas-education-crisis-now so we can keep this podcast online!Special Discount for our Listeners: Receive 20% off the book Vision and Action by Dr. Charles Reigeluth and Dr. Jennifer Karnopp with the exclusive code VA20 when you order directly from SolutionTree.com. This offer is available for a limited time! Give today to our GoFundMe Campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-end-americas-education-crisis-now so we can keep this podcast online!
More episodes of the podcast The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It
7. How does school structure need to change?
20/10/2025
6. How does school culture need to change?
20/10/2025
2. Are we forcing students to fail?
03/10/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.