Report Reveals the Sorry State of Public School Instruction
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Findings from research conducted jointly by the RAND Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public...
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Meghan Raftery
- Jul 20
Gifted Education Should Not Be Zero-Sum
Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash One of my favorite books is The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law & Meghan Raftery
- Dec 1, 2022
Who Owns Edjacent?
Some people believe that Meghan Raftery not only owns Edjacent, but that she actually is Edjacent. But Edjacent is much larger than just...
Meghan Raftery
- Oct 27, 2022
The Myth of “They”
The life of a self-authoring educator can be pretty lonely. Self-authors forge their own pathways through existing systems by creating...
Meghan Raftery
- Oct 16, 2022
A Brief History of the Edjacent Design Collaborative
Have you ever had a slow hunch? Slow hunches are shadows of ideas that appear on the edges of your life. You know they are there, but you...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 19, 2022
The Adjacent Possible for Education
Most people have a fixed image in their mind of what a school is and what it is for. When they hear the word educators, they think of...
Meghan Raftery
- Aug 20, 2022
Ban Or Understand? Policies That Respect Emerging Adults
Imagine you just got a promotion at a company where you’ve worked for 11 years. You’ve been a loyal employee ever since your first day...
Meghan Raftery
- Jul 10, 2022
Mall School
I’m a big fan of dystopian novels. My favorite part is always the backstory. What problems were the world-builders trying to solve when...
Doug Wren
- Feb 13, 2022
Central Offices: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Part 2
This is the second part of a blog series in which two former central office administrators recount their experiences and make...
Meghan Raftery
- Feb 13, 2022
Central Offices: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Part 1
This is the first installment of a two-part blog series that looks at the role of central offices in school districts. Two former central...
Meghan Raftery
- Feb 4, 2022
Teachers Cannot Solve the Substitute Teaching Crisis. Nor Should They.
The logical next post in the substitute teaching sequence (see Part 1) would be to share ideas for teachers, school leaders, and...
Laura Solomon
- Jan 19, 2022
Chapter Three: Let’s Fix This
Awareness of and solutions to the teacher shortage crisis are prolific in opinion pieces lately. The number of teachers ready to walk...
Doug Wren
- Jan 2, 2022
Three Ways to Reduce Gun Violence at Schools
My previous post (Coming Soon to a School Near You?) recounted firsthand experiences with gun violence in DeKalb County, Georgia and...
Meghan Raftery
- Nov 16, 2021
The Self-Authoring Educator in VASCD Journal
Edjacent Assistant Chief Design Officer Mark Diacopoulos and I are the proud authors of an article called "The Self-Authoring Educator:...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 17, 2021
Is It Time for A Permanent Remote Learning Contingency?
From June through October each year, my family waits for “The Big One.” My husband is a weather buff by interest, but also part of the...
Doug Wren
- Nov 19, 2020
On the Matter of What Matters in Public Education
My original plan for this post was to focus exclusively on how teachers can assess deeper learning. But that changed. Before writing a...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 23, 2020
Lofty Suggestions From the Other Side of the Screen
I am not generally a complainer. If I see a problem, I immediately want to solve it or find a better way. Remote learning has been taxing...
Meghan Raftery
- Jun 23, 2020
Part 2: Taekwondo as Lesson Study
ICYMI: The original post, Part 1: Taekwondo as Lesson Study can be found here: https://edjacent.org/part-1-taekwondo-as-lesson-study/ You...
Jared Fritzinger
- Jun 17, 2020
Don’t Fool Yourself. Education is Politics.
Systemic oppression is endemic in public education. It’s time we faced our fears and called it out. Jared Fritzinger is a Civics and...
Jared Fritzinger
- Apr 22, 2020
UPDATED: What If… Teachers Demanded to Be Treated Like Artists
Note: Back by popular demand, Edjacent author Jared Fritzinger from https://edinthewild.com/ shares a response with his views on teaching...
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