The Schools We Need Presentation

I'm in St. Louis, post presentation, and I'm pretty pleased with how it went. It's not easy for me to figure out how to talk to audiences that aren't made up of educators, because the question is always what is the balance between the universal ideas and the deep entry into pedagogy. Judging from the reaction, folks seemed to think that I struck a good balance today. I had a lot of people come up and tell me that I really challenged them to re-think their ideas about school design, and that's thrilling to me. A few folks asked me about strategies to get educators and facilities folks talking more, which is also really exciting.

And even better, this time, I remembered to hit record, so I can share the uStream with you.



And here are the slides as well:



It was also really, really fun for me to incorporate so many of the ideas that people left on the last entry into the presentation. What's becoming more and more apparent to me is how much all of these ideas --curriculum, technology, facility, 21st Century learning, the ethic of care -- are inter-related, and how important it is becoming to get everyone in the room who matters to talk about the really big ideas and how to make those ideas happen.

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