Nearly all of us share one experience: going to school. Across the world, school and teachers impart norms of culture and skills needed through an outdated "transmission approach" to schooling, where teachers deliver information and check that students have absorbed it.

That approach rarely prepares students to be Changemakers who can thrive in and contribute to a democratic society - critically analyzing information, learning from failure and success, and forging respectful relationships. To help young people thrive in a fast-changing world, we must rethink the school experience.

How might we recalibrate our paradigms on the purpose of school? How have teachers, students, school leaders, school reformers, and teachers' unions in Mexico, Pakistan, Indonesia and the USA come together to shift norms so that school supports students as Changemakers?

Join us in an inspiring discussion about how we can all take action to replace compliance-based schools with engagement-based schools.  

Speakers:  

Aleta Margolis, Center for Inspired Teaching (USA)
Ali Raza Khan, Youth Engagement Services (YES) Network Pakistan (Pakistan)
Dina Buchbinder, Education for Sharing (E4S) (Mexico)
Mathias Yashim, Hope Builders International (Nigeria)

Moderated by Kyle Zimmer, CEO of First Book 
 

Hosted by Ashoka at the Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Events.