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With episode 3, we begin our conversations with practitioners working to implement learner-centered education in schools. Our guests are Dr. Kevin Brown, Superintendent in the Alamo Heights Independent School District in TX and Dr. Frank Alfaro, Assistant Superintendent. Alamo Heights is a mid-urban district with about 4,800 students. Dr. Brown and Dr. Alfaro have led Alamo Heights to collaboratively develop the AHISD Profile of a Learner, which describes the characteristics and attributes we desire for our 21st century students.
These practitioners will inspire you to reflect on these and other questions:
- How might a learner profile help focus a school/district on being learner-centered?
- What takeaways from today’s conversation can you act upon in your own practice?
Resources:
- Alamo Heights District Report 2016 – Including information on Profile of a Learner and Blueprint for Learning
- Alamo Heights High School Students Break the Mold and the Sound Barrier!
- Creating a vision for Texas Public Schools
- Panorama Student Survey
- Blueprint for Learning
- Everyone Session
- StudentFocusGroupQuestions
- QUESTIONS for Senior Exit Interviews and Senior Luncheon
- Learning Day April
- Engaged Classroom Application
- PROGRAM for Showcase 2017
- Education-reimagined.org
- A Transformational Vision for Education in the US
- It’s a Paradigm Shift. So What?
- Season 2: Episode 29 – Interview with Kelly Young