Policy measures, philanthropic support, and venture capital increasingly promote initiatives that drive innovation within and outside the traditional education sector. In this powerful book, best-selling author and education policy expert Rick Hess and chief learning officer Bror Saxberg show you how to become your school′s learning engineer.Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has moved from the periphery to the center of education reform. Technology has a critical role, but it’s the creative reinvention of schools, systems, and classrooms that has to come first. Reboot student learning the right way! Today’s most successful school leaders are truly "learning engineers": creative thinkers who redefine their problems and design new ways to better serve kids’ success. Rick Hess and Bror Saxberg have designed a compelling guide for the road ahead."
Horn, Co-Founder & Education Executive DirectorĬlayton Christensen Institute "Too often, our current structures fail to promote and support learning engineering. Breakthrough Leadership in a Digital Age points the way forward."
Technology holds unbelievable promise to be a part of the solution to transform education, but it won’t happen unless all parties attack its implementation smartly. National Association of Elementary School Principals "Everyone touching education-from educators to school leaders and from investors and philanthropists to entrepreneurs-needs to understand how to think like a learning engineer and read this book. Whether it is whole-school reform or targeted interventions, principals will be motivated to rethink or‘re-engineer’ the use of technology to optimize teaching and learning."
"By deconstructing learning science and making the connection to technology, Hess and Saxberg have outlined key strategies for school leaders as they work to transform traditional practices in schools.
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