Lauren McNamara, armed with new measures and data she developed, is persuading and heling elementary schools replace harmful recess patterns with new approaches that help children grow socially and emotionally, not least by helping one another grow.
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Social Entrepreneur Jill Vialet on “Positive Chaos” and Fixing Recess
Many students don’t go outside to play for recess, regardless of socioeconomic status. Whether that’s because of digital devices, parental fear of “stranger danger,” or objectively unsafe neighborhoods, they lack “the breadth of knowledge about how to play or start games,” she says—and especially...
Kid Power! Empowering children to create positive change in their communities
What worries you? This is the question that Ashoka Fellow Dina Buchbinder of Mexico begins all of her sessions with, regardless of whether her audience is an established group of funders or eight-year-old indigenous children from northern Mexico. She asks because she knows that people of all ages...
Washington Post Front Page Story: D.C. classrooms welcome babies in effort to teach empathy
Editor's Note: On June 2, 2014, The Washington Post newspaper front page story highlighted an Ashoka Changemaker School and an Ashoka Fellow organization whose work showcase Ashoka's key strategy to transform the growing up experience of youth to one where changemaking is at the core.
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5 Ways You Can Be A Game Changer For Learning
“This world requires a new paradigm for growing up and therefore also for education,” Bill Drayton wrote last year in Stanford Social Innovation Review. “Just as 50 to 100 years ago society took the radical step of saying that every person must master written language, now we must insist that every...
Just Announced: 10 Champions of Learning Through Play
Today is the day. After seven months, 632 entries from 63 countries, and the selection of 305 Pacesetters and 30 Pioneers, we are proud to announce the 10 Champions in the Re-imagine Learning Challenge. These 10 Champions were introduced on stage at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)...
What's the Sound of a Movement?
KaBOOM! is the sound of an idealist changing the world and it’s the sound of a call to action that challenges traditional notions of community and social change. KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play is a new book by Ashoka Fellow Darell Hammond. Author David Bornstein describes Hammond...
One Ashoka Fellow, By the Numbers
Let's talk about Darell Hammond by the numbers for a moment. 576 community-created playgrounds. Six skate parks. 1,300 neighborhood restoration projects. 44 states. And, now, one. A #1 bestseller on Amazon.com, that is. The Ashoka Fellow and author of the new book KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a...
Making Imagination an Academic Goal
Ashoka Fellow Aleta Margolis, founder and executive director of the Center for Inspired Teaching, discusses rethinking the role teachers and schools to bring out something exceptional in every child. In this In this TEDx Talk, Margolis begins by asking: What price do we pay when we fail to set-up...