Education Now: Making Schools More Human

After a year of remote, hybrid, and altogether disrupted learning, we’re starting to envision a more-typical fall. But instead of going back to “normal,” how should schools look different? The pandemic revealed many of the failings of our current system — the effects of huge wealth gaps, the stifling effects of one-size-fits-all learning — but it also showcased some of the things that work: relationships and the time to build them; creativity, new solutions, and the room to innovate; new scheduling flexibility; and a new understanding of the essential role of teachers.

In short, we are seeing the potential for human-centered innovation in our response to COVID-19 and the ongoing education crisis. How can we build on these positives? How can we learn the right lessons from this challenging year?

Join us for a conversation on the future of schooling, how the pandemic is re-shaping education, and how we can move towards a more holistic and relationship-centered model of education, where deeper learning can thrive.

Speakers:
- Jal Mehta, Professor of Education, HGSE
- Devon LaRosa, Principal, La Follette High School (Madison, WI)

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Since its founding in 1920, the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been training leaders to transform education in the United States and around the globe. Today, our faculty, students, and alumni are studying and solving the most critical challenges facing education: student assessment, the achievement gap, urban education, and teacher shortages, to name just a few. Our work is shaping how people teach, learn, and lead in schools and colleges as well as in after-school programs, high-tech companies, and international organizations. The HGSE community is pushing the frontiers of education, and the effects of our entrepreneurship are improving the world.

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