Creating Tomorrow’s Critical and Creative Thinkers Today
June 2, 2022
Hosted by Ross Danis
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Episode Description
With the current focus on standardized test scores as a measure of success in educational attainment, it is reasonable to believe that there is just no time to foster critical and creative thinking in our young people. Not true. One does not excuse the other. Our school can graduate critical and creative thinkers as well as students who score well on their End of the Year Grades or standardized tests. Join us on this week’s edition of Let’s Reinvent School!” when we focus on strategies that can help prepare our young people for their future and not our past. Today’s graduates are living in a complex, multinational, and multi-logical world. What it means to be “literate’ in 2022 is different from what it meant to be literate in 1950. The stakes have changed. The standards are different. Preparing them for the challenges on their horizon will require teachers and administrators to embrace and intentionally teach critical and creative thinking. It’s possible, important, and timely. We welcome to the program Dr. Sharon Jones, consultant, and director at the Dotte Rose Foundation. We will also be joined by young people who are recent graduates > We will ask them if they feel prepared for the challenges ahead and if they believe they are both critical and creative thinkers. As our respondent in segment three, we will be joined by Mr. Omar Parkes, MeckEd’s Director of Career Pathways. Omar will help us answer the question, “What have we learned today?”
Let's REINVENT School!
Thursday at 8AM PST/11AM EST on VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel
A weekly radio program focused on reinventing public education in order to prepare all young people, regardless of race, class, gender, or zip code, for their future and not our past.
Ross Danis
Ross Danis is the president & CEO of MeckEd, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to ensuring access to opportunity for all children. Dr. Danis’ 40 years of service as a teacher, staff developer, school principal, curriculum director, foundation executive, university dean, and non-profit leader, is fueled by his abiding belief in the power of public education to transform lives. Dr. Danis has served as an appointee to the education task forces, commissions, and education policy transition teams of four governors and six education commissioners. He has taught educational leadership to doctoral students in 36 states and seven countries on four continents. As the president & CEO of MeckEd, Dr. Danis continues to empower educators, policymakers, and community members with the knowledge and resources necessary to ensure that all children have access to the education they deserve, and the experiences necessary to thrive.
