Make no mistake about it Mike Yates believes that school SUCKS! But he is determined to reimagine the way we teach our children.
Join us on the latest episode of @EdUp Experience webseries EdUp Unplugged, where the Senior Managing Director of Network Strategies for the Teach for America Reinvention Lab explains some of the philosophies that he described in his recent TedEx talks and the things he wants to see in the classroom like:
-More Black school founders
-More Black school leaders
-More Black school teachers
-Kids completing school work while laying on the floor.
-More for-profit schools
-The role of "teacher" changed
-Adaptive tech to replace direction instruction
-Life skills as core content
-Teachers who don’t assign homework
-Schools with no textbooks
-Schools partnered with local businesses
-AI
-Drone races
-Student input into MAJOR school decisions
-Normalize apologizing to children
-Young people as designers of their own learning experiences
-Great schools in the hood
-Trusting that children are experts in the place they spend the most time...school
This has been one of my favorite conversations so far, and I'm really excited to see how Mike continues to reinvent classrooms of the future.
