Transcend Education was founded by Jeff Wetzler and Aylon Samouha in 2015 to support school communities in creating and spreading extraordinary, equitable learning environments. Now partnering with over 200 schools in 50+ districts, serving nearly 500,000 students in 30 states, they are partnering with educators across the country in their efforts to transform themselves. They do this through their community-based design process, utilizing resources and providing models that help school communities “get from industrial era learning to extraordinary and equitable learning.” Jenee Henry, the Chief Learning Officer at Transcend, and Saya Reed, a Fellow on the Products & Capacity Building team, share the goals and efforts of Transcend to support learning communities transform themselves through a community-centered redesign process while accessing and tapping from a plethora of learner-centered, equity-focused practices from schools across the country that they have curated on their Models Exchange website. They are doing extraordinary work with their partner schools, and the Models Exchange site can provide inspiration as well as designs that can help educators pursue new models of education that far better serve youth beyond the industrial-model of education that is now outdated for what our youth want and communities need. Hear what they are up to ... and why on this episode.
Transcend Education was founded by Jeff Wetzler and Aylon Samouha in 2015 to support school communities in creating and spreading extraordinary, equitable learning environments. Now partnering with over 200 schools in 50+ districts, serving nearly 500,000 students in 30 states, they are partnering with educators across the country in their efforts to transform themselves. They do this through their community-based design process, utilizing resources and providing models that help school communities “get from industrial era learning to extraordinary and equitable learning.” Jenee Henry, the Chief Learning Officer at Transcend, and Saya Reed, a Fellow on the Products & Capacity Building team, share the goals and efforts of Transcend to support learning communities transform themselves through a community-centered redesign process while accessing and tapping from a plethora of learner-centered, equity-focused practices from schools across the country that they have curated on their Models Exchange website. They are doing extraordinary work with their partner schools, and the Models Exchange site can provide inspiration as well as designs that can help educators pursue new models of education that far better serve youth beyond the industrial-model of education that is now outdated for what our youth want and communities need. Hear what they are up to ... and why on this episode.