{"id":69449,"date":"2020-01-27T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69449"},"modified":"2020-01-27T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:14:48","slug":"does-education-really-want-student-voice-spoiler-alert-the-answer-is-no-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/01\/27\/does-education-really-want-student-voice-spoiler-alert-the-answer-is-no-vest\/","title":{"rendered":"Does education really want student voice? Spoiler alert: The answer is no [Vest]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2020\/01\/does-education-really-want-student-voice-spoiler-alert-the-answer-is-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Does education really want student voice? Spoiler alert: The answer is no<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Jason Vest<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you\u2019re as lucky as I am to be in a state like Virginia positioning itself to transform schools, you probably hear these phrases a lot: \u201cinnovation,\u201d \u201clearner-centered,\u201d and \u201cstudent voice.\u201d We use these to convey the importance of transforming pedagogy and letting students have more autonomy in their education. You won\u2019t find a teacher on the planet that doesn\u2019t genuinely want their students to be self-advocates, know how to manage their time and themselves better, or have richer learning opportunities. But at times there is a huge discrepancy in what we say we want our kids to do and be and what our system actually supports. My most successful teaching experience, one that earned national recognition by The Aurora Institute, happened during our school\u2019s study hall period. There\u2019s no way I could have just decided to scrap my main Civics class and buck the existing curriculum and state standards to teach a class on design thinking and entrepreneurship \u2013 even if the students and their families wanted me to.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Another phrase we always say is \u201cwe want students to be college and career ready.\u201d In reality though, only if that means they do so in a way that is non-threatening to our existing power structures.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nLet me be clear: As it currently stands, we have more policies, systems, and structures currently in place that hinder students than those that help them. Anyone that believes otherwise should talk to any of my students.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does education really want student voice? Spoiler alert: The answer is no &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Jason Vest Excerpts: If you\u2019re as lucky as I am to be in a state like Virginia positioning itself to transform schools, you probably hear these phrases a lot: \u201cinnovation,\u201d \u201clearner-centered,\u201d and \u201cstudent voice.\u201d We use these to convey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,419,46,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69450,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69449\/revisions\/69450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}