Education Policy Networking Series

Rapid changes in our culture and breakthrough innovations have opened the door to fundamentally transforming the way students learn. We’ve seen technology and new modes of organization disrupt many industries -  transportation, retail sales, even health care. Yet, the education sector has been disrupted mainly at the margins, and there have been expectations that technologies like MOOCs would disrupt higher education, but the hype has exceeded the reality so far. 

 Our panel will focus on the work of the “ReSchool Colorado” project that was initiated in 2013 by the Donnell-Kay Foundation. ReSchool is a multi-year initiative to design and launch a learner-centered education system that coordinates people and resources in new, dynamic ways. The focus is on learner needs and outcomes instead of existing structures, timeframes or transitions points like ECE, K12, higher education, etc.
 
Dr. Amy Anderson, Director of ReSchool Colorado  (CU Denver PhD in Educational Leadership and Innovation, 2003) will lead the panel in explaining the team’s guiding philosophies and approach to system design, identify key elements of the ReSchool system shaping up thus far, and highlight goals and plans for 2016.  

Other panelists include: Tony Lewis, Executive Director of the DK Foundation, who will share the foundation’s rationale for creating a new system and why the DK Foundation as a philanthropy is in a good position to do this type of work
Karin Stayton, Assistant Director of Operations – Resident Services at Boulder Housing Partners, who will discuss the work ReSchool and the BHP team have collaborated on this past year to provide families living in their housing communities the opportunity to co-design a new system with us and to test key concepts emerging from that design process, in particular around leveraging learner advocates to build the capacity of families to access and navigate the education system.

Whether you believe the current system needs to be seriously disrupted, or just improved incrementally, this session should provide fascinating food for thought.

Free, but space is limited! Refreshments and snacks will be served. Please click here to register.