Resources
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World – available April 17, 2012
Aug 9th
Catalogue copy from the publisher (Scrbner/Simon & Schuster):
From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today’s most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of America’s future.
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“The Finland Phenomenon: Inside The World’s Most Surprising School System”–a great resource now available
Mar 31st
Finland is the highest performing education system in the world, and in the Spring of 2010, Tony was invited by the Finland National Board of Education to share his ideas on the new skills all students need today. Bob Compton, executive producer of the highly acclaimed education documentary, “2 Million More >
New Videos on The Global Achievement Gap: Keynotes and Extended Interview
Jan 31st
The video link below is a 30 minute keynote Tony gave at the Asia Society summer conference. As of February 2011, it had been viewed more than 27,000 times on YouTube. It will be most useful for teacher and administrator audiences.
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High School Student Focus Group Video
Jan 31st
Tony recently conducted a series of focus groups with high school students and recent high school graduates for the Highline School District, outside of Seattle, WA. In this moving video, successful and struggling students and graduates talk about their school experiences and what they need from teachers in order to More >
The Global Achievement Gap Keynote Video
Jan 31st
This is a video of a July 2008 keynote address where Tony talked about his latest book The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It. The video includes questions from the audience.
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The Global Achievement Gap Interview
Jan 31st
Listen to a recent interview with Tony about his new book: The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It
Get the .mp3 from the downloads page (registered members only).
What Does It Mean To Be A “Change Leader”?
Jan 31st
This video is a 30 minute excerpt of the presentation Tony delivered at the Colorado Association of School Boards conference on December 2, 2007 in Colorado Springs. To read or download the PowerPoint, go to the Presentations section of this website. (The Seven Disciplines Diagnostic/Discussion tool can be downloaded from the More >
Creating Community Consensus: Dialogues for Learning & Engagement
Jan 31st
Facilitate discussions for school “reinvention” in your community. Find out what adolescents have to say about their schools. For information on ordering a powerful new video resource and facilitators’ guide, produced by Tony Wagner with the Seattle Public Schools, click here.
What is Good Instruction: Video Exercise
Jan 31st
In his workshops, Tony frequently uses several videos to “calibrate” perceptions of what constitutes an effective lesson.
Video exercise – Looking at Instruction
This video, a 10th grade English lesson of “The Pearl,” is available for viewing via streaming video. Click on the link above to see viewing instructions.
Teaching and Testing the Skills That Matter Most
Jan 27th
© Tony Wagner, 2008 (first published in Education Week, November, 2008)
A commission composed of some of the country’s leading college-admissions officers is recommending that universities shift from a reliance on SAT and ACT scores and instead use entrance exams that test the academic content taught in high schools. (“Panel Urges More >
