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From Everything-to-Everyone to Jobs To Be Done
Schools certainly need the right “interfaces” so that “modular” solutions can “plug in.” For example, does the daily schedule built-in time for students to access an outside provider for self-directed learning? Does the school transcript have space for credentials earned elsewhere?
From Zero Sum to Positive Sum
To be clear, shifting from a zero-sum to a positive-sum model of school won’t be easy. As one of my former colleagues likes to say, “Teachers cannot create an experience for students that those teachers themselves have not had.” So if we want to initiate a shift in our schools from a zero-sum to a positive-sum worldview, we should begin by inviting teachers into new professional learning and growth experiences.
Michael B. Horn’s From Reopen to Reinvent: A Must Read for School Leaders
He cohosts the top education podcasts Future U and Class Disrupted. He regularly contributes to Forbes.com and writes the Substack newsletter The Future of Education. Michael also serves as an executive editor at Education Next. His work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and NBC.
From Threat Rigidity to Opportunity
To be sure, a full shift from threat rigidity to opportunity will take more than answering those four questions—and the rest of From Reopen to Reinvent explores that territory. It begins, as Horn implies, with having enough empathy to understand that threat rigidity makes perfect sense when you’re in the midst of a crisis. But if we remain in that place, we will merely “reopen.”