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In this episode, we are learning with Zack Jones, Director of Dual School, located in Wilmington Delaware.
Dual School is a supplement to the existing education system, delivering a learning opportunity to students from public, private and charter schools in New Castle County, DE. Dual School also welcomes teachers to learn from their innovative pedagogy and connect with other forward thinking educators. Born out of a partnership with Blue Dot Education, a group of teachers from High Tech High, Dual School provides their flagship Idea Incubator program twice each year to about 40 students and their consulting work reaches another 100 youth who work on social impact projects as a workforce development experience.
Zack is a graduate of Horn Entrepreneurship at University of Delaware, and is the author of The World Changer’s Handbook: A Young Person’s Guide to Creating an Impactful Life. He’s passionate about helping young people activate their potential by taking action on their ideas.
In our conversation, we learned about Dual School’s innovative learning model through many examples. During the 3-hour learning sessions, learners at Dual School work alongside adults to pursue social impact projects. The model represents learning that is personalized, contextualized and relevant to the participating high school learners. The projects shared also represent a high level of learner agency. We spoke about the importance of shifting adults roles in a learner-centered learning environment.
As a result of our conversation, we are thinking about the following question:
- What did you learn today that can be applied to the transformation of your learning environment and the shifting role of the teacher?
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