Making Schools Better: The Inaugural National School Redesign Showcase

Description

The Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University will host the inaugural National School Redesign Showcase. Come meet and learn from school teams of students, teachers, and administrators, selected from across the country, who will present their visions on how to make schools better.

This year's redesign challenge: How might we design a school so that it's a place where everyone wants to be and students are put on a pathway to adult success? Throughout the year, school teams worked together to conduct research; survey and shadow students, teachers, and staff; and experiment with prototypes designed to strengthen student and teacher agency, sense of belonging, and school connectedness, the building blocks of student engagement and teacher effectiveness. Their learnings, insights, and recommendations will amaze attendees and show that if the education community actively engages those who learn and teach in schools in their design, great improvements in educational practice are possible.

Christopher Morphew, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, and Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, will make opening remarks at 10:30 a.m. The Showcase is then open between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.—come visit any time to meet and learn from the school design teams.