Humanizing the Education Machine : How to Create Schools That Turn Disengaged Kids into Inspired Learners.

Humanizing the Education Machine: How to Create Schools that Turn Disengaged Kids into Inspired Learners -- Contents -- Foreword Kevin E. Baird -- Foreword Ricky Kassanoff and Mark Hubbard -- Foreword Dan Boggio -- Foreword Gregory Moore -- Foreword Chris Petrick -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Numbers Don't Lie -- To Humanize the Education Machine -- This Book: A Road Map -- Who Should Read This Book? -- How One Family Escaped the Great Machine -- It Takes a Village -- The Collaborative Hum -- Chapter 2: Two Guys from Gainesville -- Chapter 3: MindShift: We Didn't Seek Permission -- The K-12 MindShift Project -- The Pancake Roundtable Incubator -- You Can Do This, Too -- Chapter 4: The Learning Manifesto -- A Stake in the Ground -- Getting Beyond Whack-a-Mole -- K-12: "What's the Problem? -- Preamble: A Case for Change -- Self-Evident Truths -- The Learning Manifesto -- Exposing Hidden Things -- Future-Ready Schools -- Well-Schooled but Poorly Educated -- Left Behind -- The Tale of Two Communities -- Chapter 5: How the Road to Transformation Began in Failure -- The Path to Quality -- When Achievement Drives Culture -- The Lesson of Volkswagen and Teaching to the Test -- When Quality Drives Culture -- . . . When Business Leaves but the People Stay -- Responding to Change -- Becoming Future Ready -- Reform versus Culture -- The Choluteca Bridge of the Information Age -- Chapter 6: Gutenberg to Google -- The Challenge to Google Immigrants -- I Don't Even Speak the Language! -- Digital Immigrants and Natives -- The Gutenberg Revolution -- The Google Revolution -- Disrupting a Linear World with Logarithmic Change -- Chapter 7: The Learning Matrix: Mapping the Five Eras of Learning -- Toppling Old Empires -- The Pattern of Technological Change -- Why Would I Send My Kid to Your School? -- The System's Logic Drives Behavior -- The Tipping Point for Education.

The Oral World -- The Printed Word and Individual Learning -- The Broadcast Word Brings Edutainment -- Digital Connected Learning and the Power of Engagement -- Social-Mobile and Personalized Learning -- Chapter 8: The Pandorification of Learning: The Future Is Here -- How Do We Envision the Future? -- The Pandorification of Learning -- 2025: Sarah and the Pandorification of Learning -- 2025: The Free-Range Learning Community -- Threading It Together -- Will We Improve the Past or Make the Future? -- What Improving the Past Looks Like in Education -- What Making the Future Looks Like in Education -- Creating a Future for Everyone -- Chapter 9: Changing the Odds: Getting Beyond Zip Code Destiny -- Beating the Low Expectations Syndrome -- A Day in the Life -- The Toll on Good Teachers -- Survival Mode -- Is Education Rigged? -- The Parent Factor -- Healthy Communities = Healthy Schools -- The Learning and Life Connection -- Humanizing the System -- Chapter 10: Humanizing the Great Education Machine -- Newark-The Prize -- What Institutions Can and Cannot Do -- Iatrogenic Medicine -- Ferguson and Jennings: Four Miles and a World Apart -- A Surge Opportunity for Ferguson -- A Human-Scaled Solution Penetrates the Chicago Public Schools -- Two Billionaires-Two Different Outcomes -- Social Emotional Literacy -- Chapter 11: The Healing Power of Social Emotional Literacy -- Your Brain on Learning -- Go Settle Your Glitter -- Early Warning Systems for Students -- Hoosiers -- A Teacher's Lesson in Emotional Literacy -- Tribes -- Restoring Common Sense -- Finding the Flow -- Chapter 12: Creating a Healthy Learning Culture -- The MeTEOR Makeover -- The Shadow Culture -- Dining Room and Kitchen Culture -- A Look into the Mirror -- Adjusting Boat Behaviors -- The Right Brain Side of Change -- What about Education? -- The Leadership Triangle -- Agents of Change.

Chapter 13: How Technology Is Supposed to Work -- Technology: Crossing the Border -- Disrupting Class -- Why Is Change So Complicated? -- Buzzwords Are Fuzzy Words -- Why Is the Timing Right for Transformation? -- Flow: The Creative Zone -- Blended Learning -- Gamification and Financial Literacy -- Finding Our Groove with Technology -- The Path of Change to Blended Learning -- The Golden Triad of Pedagogy, Technology, and Place -- Chapter 14: Designing a Place That Inspires and Equips -- The Building Has a Voice -- Simple Math -- The Magic of Playgrounds -- Paris, Illinois: A School Building That Spoke to the Community -- Change Your Space, Change Your Culture -- Engaged Leaders Lead to Engaged Schools -- The Cardboard Classroom -- Legacy High School and the Flex-Mod Schedule -- The Shelton School: Intelligent Space -- The Lean Classroom -- 50,000 Schools and the Micro-Environment Solution -- New Thinking in School Design -- What Is the Biggest Change You See Taking Place in the Classroom? -- What Change Can Have the Biggest Impact in a Traditional Classroom? -- What Are Some Means to Classroom Improvement That Teachers Often Miss? -- Reversing the Rising Health Risks in Schools -- Future Ready -- Chapter 15: The Power of Positive -- Mrs. B! I Have Talents! -- Positive Psychology -- What Do Successful and Happy People Do Differently? -- Posttraumatic Strength Syndrome -- The Cost of Disengaged Teachers -- Sandcastles -- Disengaged Teachers Reproduce -- Common Traits of Engaged Learning Environments -- Chapter 16: Leading Change at Your School -- The Perverse Logic of a System -- The Battle of Atlanta, or How to Move from What's Wrong to What's Strong -- Start Over -- Model Expectations -- Creating New Structures Transforms Relationships -- Reinforce the Message of Stakeholder Engagement -- Design and Build New Roles -- Build a Culture.

Stakeholder Engagement -- How Did "We" Get Here? -- The Stakeholder Engagement Process -- Who? -- Why? -- What? -- How? -- I Moved Here Because of Your Schools: Don't Change Anything! -- Designing the "Aha" Moment -- Day in the Life -- Homework Audit -- Student Survey -- Book Club -- Future Summit -- New Tech High -- Schools Within a School -- How You Can Lead a Movement -- First Followers -- To Begin -- Where We Go from Here -- Chapter 17: Humanity High: The Movie -- Space Design -- Respect -- Curiosity -- Encouragement -- Community -- Discipline -- What If? -- You Don't Need Permission -- Finally . . . Remember the Collaborative Hum -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Appendix: From Accidental Change Agent to Up-Front Grief Counseling -- Notes -- References -- Core Leaders -- Summit Leaders -- Interviews and Site Visits -- Subject Matter Experts and Summit Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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