Old Recipe with New Ingredients - Not good enough

We need to rewrite the education system  recipe instead of using new ingredients as substitutes in the one we have.

Flipping the classroom is becoming a much discussed topic and provides energy for educators to create new ways of learning in their classrooms. To be truly transformational it needs to be part of a systems change.

Flipping the classroom indeed helps creative educators reach students in new ways. I personally find it energizing and engaging and love seeing how good educators put it into practice. (Bozeman Biology). It is a great instructional strategy - but it doesn't transform a system.

As we discover, create, implement new instructional strategies with the current tools available we still need leadership, planning, and connecting of dots to indeed transform public education or we are going to be doing what we have always done - had some outstanding educators who are pioneers and risk takers that become the special teachers within the same system and only some kids experiencing instead of all kids.

It is imperative that we leverage the energy and the strategies utilized by talented educators in transforming a system. New instructional strategies are great and have always been a part of public education - but our kids and our communities deserve and need a lasting transformation.

Educators flipping their classrooms are still confined by old measures of achievement. Students are still graded by time and place and not proficiency. Learners who have a different learning style are not able to approach in a different way - they are still subjected to one size even if it is considered new and innovative.

Learner profiles. Personalized Learning Paths. Proficiency.Learning for all learners. Learning right the first time and every time.

There are many instructional designs currently being used that are engaging and effective, but they are often only utilized by the few instead of the many due to the constraints and efforts needed to deliver them in a system that has not changed. We have many quality ingredients available to use. It is time to create and bring about the winning recipe so that all educators are enabled and supported in making learning right every time and personalized for every learner.