The Final Score Is Not the Final Score
During the last week in April, Big Picture Learning conducted two symposiums on out-of-school youth—the first in Seattle, WA, the second in Newark, NJ– assembling a broad cross-section of individuals from the education, foundation, business, and community sectors. CEOs dialogued with teachers. Principals interviewed leaders of non-profit organizations. Students questioned school district leaders. We invited several young people, most of them school leavers, to tell their stories and describe their encounters with the system. We learned a lot from the participants, so we tried to capture the essence of our conversation and the outcomes of our work with them in the attached paper.
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One result of our learning from the symposiums is that we believe the Big Picture Learning design can be successfully modified to create programs that address the special needs and circumstances of these young people. We have already begun developing detailed program designs. We welcome your feedback on the paper. We will be blogging about the topic on tinkingandthinking.org and in the near future will develop prototypes based on our program ideas.
