In Tony Wagner’s book Creating Innovators, he argues that play, passion and purpose are at the center of developing innovators. His research identified that when young people are allowed to play, are given opportunities to pursue their passions and are given work that has a purpose bigger than themselves, they find meaning, experience success and are highly motivated. As I …
Students Transforming School: Brainstorming
Envisioning the Ideal School Introduction and context: As the first task of my fellowship, I created a steering committee to help me with the work I would be undertaking next year. I chose several teachers and an administrator and asked each one of those people to invite two students to participate. Because my project is about personal learning ( and …