Brandon Busteed: "What can schools do?"

 
Speaker, author, social entrepreneur, and executive director of Gallup Education (@GallupEducation), Brandon Busteed (@brandonbusteed) possesses vision.  He has set his eyes on creating "a national movement to measure the educational outcomes that matter most, connect education to jobs and job creation, and to promote a paradigm shift from knowledge mastery to emotional engagement in education" (for the source of this passage, click here).  This is no short order, especially concerning the resistance so often seen by educators in the classroom as well as the turbulent "emotions" surrounding Common Core.  So where does a concerned student, parent, or educator start?

Busteed begins to answer this question in the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) (@NAISNetwork) video above.  Although he offers several cogent points, one in particular proves particularly striking:

There's a lot of things that schools can do. There's a lot of things that adults in any kind of mentoring or coaching role can do.  I mean, one is we need to change what we value. ... If we really care about people being engaged in what they're doing and thriving in their well-being, we would refocus our priorities on things like spending more time allowing students to explore what they're good at.

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