Author: Stacey Childress

Let’s Get to Work: A Response to Robert Pondiscio

  “Any group that only associates with like-minded people is susceptible to becoming extreme, inflexible, self-righteous, and losing its ability to see its own weaknesses.” This is the organizing idea in Robert Pondiscio’s Gadfly blog from May 25th, “The Left’s drive to push conservatives out of education reform.” At NewSchools, we actually agree with this […]

Exciting New Evidence about the Promise of Personalized Learning

The number of schools designed for personalized learning is growing rapidly. At NewSchools, we’re helping teams of educators launch many such schools

Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic: Moving Faster toward New School Models

Today, Diane Tavenner, Aylon Samouha, Jeff Wetzler and I released a paper called

Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic: Moving Faster Toward New School Models (FINAL)

American young people deserve a better model of schooling. Creating it requires us to rethink the way we design and operate schools. Including updates from their draft version in May 2014, this paper by Stacey Childress, Aylon Samouha, Diane Tavenner, and Jeff Wetzler, lays out a vision for the future of school, a theory of change for getting there, and an invitation to collaborate.

Announcing Summit 2015 Closing Speaker: Ben Jealous

NewSchools Summit 2015 is just a couple of days away! I’ve been to many Summits over the years, but this is my first since I joined the organizatio

Three Tips for Picking a Personalized Learning Framework

Teams of educators all over the country are launching new schools and redesigning existing ones, and they are eager to build on the early lessons of the pioneers who have been at it for a few years. This is great – if everyone treats designing and implementing personalized learning as an invention challenge, the state […]

Trip Notes: SXSWedu 2015

Last week I was in Austin for SXSWedu, which I’ve attended every year since its launch. I thought I’d share some excerpts from my trip notes: