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Bonus Episode 04 – Interview with Rebecca Wolfe on Learner-Centered Educator and Leadership Competencies

Lynn Fuini-Hetten and Randy Ziegenfuss

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In this Bonus Episode we are speaking with Rebecca Wolfe about her work on educator and leadership competencies for learner-centered, personalized education.

Rebecca is an Associate Vice President at Jobs for the Future where she oversees the  Students at the Center initiative. Students at the Center serves as a national, credible, and influential voice for transformative learner-centered teaching and learning practices. Together with their partners, Students at the Center aims to ensure all students – with a special focus on low-income youth and students of color – have concrete opportunities to acquire the skills, knowledge, and dispositions needed for success in college, the workforce, and civic life.

Rebecca has authored or co-authored numerous publications on student-centered learning including Rethinking Readiness: Deeper learning for college, work, and life”  and Anytime, Anywhere: Student-centered learning for schools and teachers, both from Harvard Education Press.

Here’s what we discussed:

  1. Let’s start off by sharing with our listeners how you distinguish learner-centered from the dominant school-centered paradigm.
  2. Why is it important for us to specifically and comprehensively identify a set of competencies for educators and leaders that focus on learner-centered environments? Tell us a little bit about the work that led to the initial frameworks for educators and leaders.
  3. Give us a 35,000 level look at the educator competencies and the four domains.
  4. Our work on the Shift Your Paradigm podcast has been focused on identifying new principles of leadership through our conversations with learner-centered leaders and learners. So we are very curious about how leadership looks different in learner-centered environments! Share with us the domains and some of the competencies that make up the leadership framework?
  5. How might leaders go about using the leadership competencies?
  6. What’s next for this work on educator and leadership competencies? What’s next for you, Rebecca?

Exploring Additional Resources:

Learn more about Students at the Center Design Studio, October 17-18, 2018 in Portland, ME. (Select link for PDF)