Join Me for an Interactive Parent & Teen Workshop
"How to Win at School - A Workshop for Teens and Parents" School is almost always the most important influence, outside of the family, on a child's life and success. Honestly, that's a little scary, given how little control most students and parents feel about the school experience.
Are you frustrated, worried, or discouraged about your teen and his or her school experience right now? If so, you are not alone. In this workshop, you will...
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I’m Steve Hargadon. I'm inviting you to a conversation about our kids and school.
I’ve worked with teachers and librarians for the last fifteen years, and I created what is widely considered the first real modern social network for teachers, Classroom 2.0. I have 150,000 teachers and librarians in my online communities and I hold large-scale, worldwide online education conferences, with tens of thousands of attendees, and hundreds of online sessions, annually. For my Future of Education interview series, I interviewed 400 educators, authors, and thought leaders.
And from all of that work, I’ve come to a radical--but maybe in retrospect, obvious--conclusion.
School is a game.
I want to talk to you and your teens what this means. I want to tell you the story of the lessons I learned with my own children. I want to talk to you about the differences between schooling, training, education, and self-directed learning. I want to talk about the way in which I’ve come to believe that our brains are as uniquely pre-configured as our physical bodies, and that it is not OK to ever think that our child is defective (or to allow them to think so). I want to talk about why almost EVERY teacher, when I ask, “What is the most important influence on a child’s education,” will answer “the family”--but why there is almost no real effort to strengthen families and their roles.
My own father was dean of admissions at Stanford and at Princeton, and he was chairman of the College Board--and yet, even in our family, he never once told me what was really going on in school. Honestly, I’m not sure he actually understood. That may sound crazy given his career, but you'll understand when I tell you the story.
I’m holding a series of 2-hour, free, evening workshops with students, parents, teachers, and school staff. I’ve crafted a message and some activities that I think will make huge (hopefully life-changing) differences in the lives of parents and students. I also want to see what you think of it, to hear your stories and experiences, and to see if I can prepare and organize these ideas as I work on my book, which will be called, How to Win at the Game of School.
To talk about me coming to speak in your area, email me at [email protected].
I’ve worked with teachers and librarians for the last fifteen years, and I created what is widely considered the first real modern social network for teachers, Classroom 2.0. I have 150,000 teachers and librarians in my online communities and I hold large-scale, worldwide online education conferences, with tens of thousands of attendees, and hundreds of online sessions, annually. For my Future of Education interview series, I interviewed 400 educators, authors, and thought leaders.
And from all of that work, I’ve come to a radical--but maybe in retrospect, obvious--conclusion.
School is a game.
I want to talk to you and your teens what this means. I want to tell you the story of the lessons I learned with my own children. I want to talk to you about the differences between schooling, training, education, and self-directed learning. I want to talk about the way in which I’ve come to believe that our brains are as uniquely pre-configured as our physical bodies, and that it is not OK to ever think that our child is defective (or to allow them to think so). I want to talk about why almost EVERY teacher, when I ask, “What is the most important influence on a child’s education,” will answer “the family”--but why there is almost no real effort to strengthen families and their roles.
My own father was dean of admissions at Stanford and at Princeton, and he was chairman of the College Board--and yet, even in our family, he never once told me what was really going on in school. Honestly, I’m not sure he actually understood. That may sound crazy given his career, but you'll understand when I tell you the story.
I’m holding a series of 2-hour, free, evening workshops with students, parents, teachers, and school staff. I’ve crafted a message and some activities that I think will make huge (hopefully life-changing) differences in the lives of parents and students. I also want to see what you think of it, to hear your stories and experiences, and to see if I can prepare and organize these ideas as I work on my book, which will be called, How to Win at the Game of School.
To talk about me coming to speak in your area, email me at [email protected].