EduCon 2025The Time Sensitive Question: What is the Future of Secondary School Design?
Significant existing student data clearly demonstrates a crisis within our schools across the nation and globe, especially at the secondary level. With approximately 60% of the secondary student population in the United States reporting the irrelevant nature of the programming and curriculum to their lives and vision of the future, this session will ask you to evaluate, through conversation, the possible actions or inactions in education that will impact future generations of students, our schools, and the world. Following the activity-based conversations in small groups, the collective team will debrief on possible action steps and implications for work at the local, state, and national levels, to deliberately redesign the current framework and address the current crisis of disengagement in our schools. With the likely significant and collective public resistance to any change in the familiar model of education, especially the K-12 public education framework, participants will assess the future of education and its impact on the K-12 system, the health of the workforce pipeline, and the ability of schools to prepare students for the future.
Conversational Practice
After a brief overview of the session goals by the facilitators, participants will break into small teams, ideally with 6 to 8 team members. Conversations within the teams will center on a collective task that requires participants to come to a consensus on the probability and impact of specific attributes related to future-focused teaching and learning that are coming into reality. These attributes fall into three categories: future learners, future foundational content and skills, and future creators of the learning experience. Team members will place cards with each of the attributes on an impact vs. probability grid. After approximately 50 minutes, the teams will be called upon to report out their key takeaways, potential action items, and continuing questions from the dialogue using the Thought Exchange platform. Thought Exchange allows participants to see and interact with everyone’s ideas and provides insights in real time.
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