Resources
Great website for parenting a young innovator
Apr 21st
Monika Conway recently introduced me to her website via email: “My goal is to create tools for parents, (coming from myself a former IDEO designer, now based in New Zealand), to help guide the parenting of a future innovator. I’m currently focusing on the preschool and ‘after-hours’ elementary school, my oldest More >
Educating The Next Steve Jobs
Apr 14th
Originally published in the April 14, 2012 Wall Street Journal, Page C2
How can schools teach students to be more innovative? Offer hands-onclasses and don‘t penalize failure
By TO N Y W A G N E R
Most of our high schools and colleges are not preparing students to become innovators. To succeed in the 21st-century economy, students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated More >
Calling All Innovators
Apr 5th
Originally published in Educational Leadership, April 2012 | Volume 69 | Number 7, Pages 66-69
© Copyright Tony Wagner 2012
Our students want to change the world. But to give them the
skills they need to do so, schools must focus on five essential practices.
In their recent book That Used to Be Us,1 Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum argue that to succeed in the new global knowledge economy, all young people must learn to be innovators. U.S. workers who cannot bring innovation to More >
Tony’s first keynote on Creating Innovators now available for viewing
Feb 15th
Tony recently traveled to Chiang Mai, Thailand to work with the faculty and staff of the Think Global School. While there, he gave a special presentation to the Think Global and PTIS International School communities. This is his first videotaped keynote about his forthcoming book, Creating Innovators: The Making of More >
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World – now available!
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.
I N T H I S More >
“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 2012, it had been viewed more than 75,000 times on YouTube. It will be most useful for teacher and administrator audiences.
You can go to this link to More >
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 >
