Using a Build, Measure, Learn Approach to Education with Mark Weyers
Release Date: 05/15/2020
Telling Your School's Story with Ryan Koral
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RC027 - Telling Your School's Story with Ryan Koral Ryan Koral has over 18 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur, Ryan is all about building partnerships with clients and sharing authentic stories that inspire action, highlight legacies, and help businesses grow. Ryan is also the founder of Enroll Films. Enroll Films began with a vision to revolutionize how educational stories are told. Today, we stand as a testament to the belief that authentic stories can shape perceptions, influence decisions, and create lasting impacts “When you can...
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RC024 - Change Management and Leadership in Schools with Courtenay Shrimpton Courtenay Shrimpton is the Lead Consultant at Courtenay has been a leader in Independent Education and has held positions of leadership for the last 30 years. From the moment Courtenay began his career he has driven new program development. From Student Leadership models, to Advisory Programs, Maker Spaces, Arts-Co-curricular initiatives and so much more. “The process by which you understand who you are, where you are and where you need to go I think is really critical." - Courtenay...
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Mark is the Founder of IIAD Global, an education and innovation company that works with colleges and universities to generate alternative streams of revenue through the establishment of online learning and satellite branch campuses all over the world. Mark has consulted with schools, colleges and universities in Canada, Ireland, UK, Netherlands, China, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and across the Middle East. He holds a BA. in Psychology, a B.Ed in Education an M.Ed in Educational Psychology, an M.Sc in Neuropsychology and an Ed.D in Education Leadership & Management
Mark joins us this week to discuss the innovative education framework called Lean Education. It can be used with any national curriculum and adopts a spiral competency based education approach. Thus, it focuses student effort, not only on the accumulation of subject knowledge within the curriculum, but on honing the skills and developing the character qualities needed to become successful in life.
“How can we infuse curiosity into the learning environment, so we allow students to drive their eduction?”
“It’s about reliability and validity. Is this method of assessment truly measuring what I think I taught, and what my students truly know and learned?
This week on the Roll Call Podcast:
- The beginning of Lean Education
- Student-driven eduction
- Build. Measure. Learn
- Infusing competencies in Spiral curriculum
- Thinking process
- In the classroom practical application - mental models
- How educators respond to a new paradigm shift
- Liquidity of knowledge
- Building a foundation for knowledge
- Implementing a new system
- Build, measure, learn in a content heavy environment
- Build, measure, learn in professional development
Resources Mentioned:
- BCI Institute Lean Education Framework: https://www.bci.institute/lean-education/
- IIAD Global: https://iiadglobal.com
This episode is sponsored by REACH Boarding
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