Morning Dialogue with Linda Darling-Hammond (via Zoom) & Larissa McLean Davies
Wednesday 12th February 8:30 am
Redefining Education: The Need for School
A rapidly changing world requires bold rethinking about what schools could be. By redefining education policy-makers, school leaders and practitioners need a new paradigm to how to move past the factory model that has defined the last century of schooling in many countries. Future schools need to be organized around a new 3 R’s: relationships, responsiveness and address the needs, interests, and talents of students, and restorative practices that create strong communities and overcome marginalization. Teaching should be transformed into a strong profession that is grounded in the science of learning and development and supportive of innovation and agency on the part of teachers. After Linda’s presentation, professor Larissa McLean Davies and Pasi Sahlberg will join in and engage in conversation with audience.
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, created to provide high-quality research for policies that enable equitable and empowering education for each and every child. She is past president of the American Educational Research Association and author of more than 30 books and 600 other publications on educational quality and equity, including the award-winning book: The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future. In 2006, she was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She led the Obama education policy transition team in 2008 and the Biden education transition team in 2020. She was appointed President of the California State Board of Education in 2019. In 2022, Darling-Hammond received the Yidan Prize for Education Research in recognition of her work that has shaped education policy and practice around the most equitable and effective ways to teach and learn.