A New Design for Education

Why are there so many calls for Educational reform yet we cling to the "banking method" as Freire suggests? Why are we afraid?

Minimally invasive education

As a follow up to the TED video below, Indian-born professor of computational and molecular science Sugata Mitra answers more questions about his current experiment Schools in the Cloud.
Has 'knowing' become obsolete? 
"Homo Sapiens will transition to Homo Deus in the next 50 years. Our preoccupation will be with meaning and creation. Knowing will not be our main interest - creating will."

The interview and transcript is available here 

Hybrid High School

Couple of thoughts here.
There are a group of individuals responding courageously to the needs of our time - Education. Second, there is a premiere, academic institution - on the West Coast - that will financially support and leverage its reputation in the belief that change and imagination are only a handful of ingredients for assisting our delapitaded educational system into the current century. Take a look:

What Most Schools Don't Teach

The day after I watched Schools as we know are Obsolete (see last post), I came across this video from code.org. What do creators of Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter have to say about Education.

Schools as we know are obsolete

This video basically sums it up.
It is better than innovative and is so far beyond our typical educational trends and "leaders."

point of departure

I began my education as a Composition major in music, went on to complete a Master's in Choral music conducting that required me to read books such as Bowling Alone and Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I am currently pursing a Ed.D in Organizational Leadership and transformational change from the University of San Francisco. It is not coincidence that I pursue my doctorate at a Jesuit Institution as I have spent the last five years directing choirs and engaging in philosophical debates around trends in Education, Leadership and Technology at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, California. 

I am a fan of Rage Against the Machine and Igor Stravinsky. I enjoy a good meal over rich conversation and a tasty glass of wine. Northern California landscape in the spring is just about the most beautiful thing one can experience. John Steinbeck saw the world the way we wish we could see it. 

My first instrument was the guitar, at college sang in a choir performing J.S. Bach's Magnificat and have been conducting choirs ever since. Most recently, I presented a workshop on Innovation and Technology for Educators and am currently creating a blended, online AP Music Theory course.

I have a passion to serve and courage to lead. How do we connect the dots? Follow me through this journey of philosophy, inquiry, innovation, and real change as I step through the door of the second half of my life.