Carissa Solomon - SXSW EDU 2024
Student Designed Schedules: Centering Power with Youth
Thank you for your interest in rethinking students’ use of time to support learner-centered design. Working together can revolutionize education by supporting learners to control their learning, time, and outcomes. I hope you find these resources helpful in continuing your journey. Please don’t hesitate to connect with me via LinkedIn, Instagram, or email if you want to talk further.
Check out this short video for an overview of rethinking time in a learner-centered environment. Note: this video was originally screened at the Association for Middle Level Education 2023 Annual Conference.
For those who attended my session at SXSW EDU, you can access all my presentation materials here. For those who couldn’t attend, I encourage you to take a self-guided tour through my talk materials to learn more.
Did I mention that I’m writing a book!? The Power of Radical Trust: Practices & Tools for Learner-Centered Design is still in development, but you can get a sneak peek at the chapter on “Rethinking Learner’s Time” here.
Read more about how Embark is centering power with youth in my blog post, Increase Agency with Learner-Designed Schedules.
Eager to learn more? Join me and two Embark learners at Deeper Learning 2024, March 26-28, for a 90-minute workshop diving deeper into our practices!
Why should you attend?
Observe learners demonstrate exactly how they schedule their time and space each week
Listen as learners narrate the meta-cognitive steps behind their choices and have a chance to ask them questions at each step
Brainstorm ways of implementing some of these practices in your home environment with other innovative participants.
