Greetings from tropical Massachusetts! I hope this finds you enjoying some rest and renewal this summer.
This month's resources include thought provoking resources from Rethinking Assessment and how now is the time for change, Tiago Forte's book summary of 'Free to Learn' by Dr. Peter Gray, and an invitation to contribute to the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation fundraising campaign to support the construction of a new elementary school campus.
In recent conversations with colleagues, I am hearing more and more people share the need for school communities and teams to unpack the last two-three years of Covid. It has been an extraordinarily difficult time and in a well-intentioned desire to move forward with renewed vision, too often we do not take the time to reflect and learn from that which we have experienced - especially that which was difficult.
Here is a Learning History resource: graphic and facilitation guidelines excerpted from The Human Side of Changing Education, that can serve as a helpful framework to unpack and distill the learning. Historically I have used the Learning History activity with longer time frames in mind, but it can be easily framed as a Learning History of the past 2-3 years.
