I’m starting to dive deeper into the education space and how we might transform our current system. The more you look, the more people you find speaking the same language.
Student-centric educators bent on fixing an industrial system designed for a different time. Each one is making change within their sphere of influence. Whether it be a high school in Indiana, a charter network in California or an entrepreneurship center in Ohio. They’re all driving forward in the same direction. Yet, it feels disconnected. It feels like each one is reinventing the wheel in their own way.
Worse yet, it feels like no matter how amazing one wheel turns out, it’s no easier to make one in another town. That is the curious part. Once you make an iPhone, there’s a blueprint. People know how to do it. But once you transform your high school to be a forward thinking institution, there’s no manual to make it happen in the next town over.
Herein lies the problem and the opportunity. In any complex system change, there will never be an easy duplication of success. But, what there might be are shared efficiencies to amplify our voices. We’re all telling the same story, yet it feels like individual voices. One voice in Delaware, one in New Hampshire, one in California.
How might we come together to help the story travel?
Every day, educators trek into the unknown. There are hundreds of packed down trails, yet tomorrow someone will take one step too far and sink into the snow. Where are the groomed trails? Where is the common ground? How can we help each other find it?
The change is too big for any one party to make alone. Let’s enroll each other in a massive journey to tell a story that must be heard. It’s not about one here, or one there. It’s about all and everywhere.