Pictured: A typical classroom setup.

The Stuff of Growth

Ken Robinson on Education

This video appears elsewhere on this site, which tells you how important it must be to our work:

Every time I come back to this speech, another idea resonates with me. I’d like to know what resonates with you, especially as you continue in our classroom. My explicit goal is to make Robinson’s ideas actionable — to do more than just agree with him. I believe that grade abatement is the key. It helps, though, to consider another luminary:

Dan Pink on Motivation

This is another RSA Animate video:

Again, I find that different ideas in this speech resonate with me each time I watch it. I’m drawn to the idea of autonomy right now, because we’ll be attempting a Genius Hour from Q2 on. I’d like to know what resonates with you, too.

Talk to me in the comments below, and extend your own conversations to your specific course’s Google Classroom.