Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk [Hardcover]

Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is understanding a Shakespeare play, figuring out an algorithm, or writing a theory of history - that engaged learners make breakthroughs, be those breakthroughs individual, group, or societal.



In this book, three experienced practitioners describe how to re-imagine teaching spaces - conventional schools - as learning spaces, spaces where risk is encouraged, celebrated, and actually taught in every area of endeavor: from how, where, or if to sit, to how to find the right pathway to learning. In bringing the stories of a central office Innovation director together with an elementary teacher and administrator and a veteran secondary teacher leader, Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk demonstrates how fundamental change is possible in any school

IRA DAVID SOCOL, formerly the award-winning chief technology and innovation officer for the Albemarle County

Public Schools in Virginia, is the senior provocateur and learning environment specialist with Socol Moran Partners.



CHERYL WALCHACK HARRIS is with the Albemarle County School Division in Charlottesville, VA.

She earned her masters of education from the University of Virginia in administration, supervision, and curriculum.



J. MICHAEL THORNTON II is an educator with a bachelor of arts in history, a master of arts in teaching,

and a masters of education. He has been an administrator and teacher in Albemarle County, VA, and is currently

an administrator in Sioux Falls, SD.

After a long span of test-centered schools and classrooms, many educators are mapping routes to student-focused environments that are livelier and more enlivening. This book provides readers an opportunity to hear the voices of colleagues who are committed to such classroolã…