Kelly Young is the Executive Director at Education Reimagined, where they seek to help educators create a learner-centered learning environment.

• Non profit in Washington, D.C. that figures out how we can accelerate the transition from school-centered to student-centered
• All kids and outcomes that are actually relevant.
• A whole new way of seeing education.
• Learning is a natural phenomenon.
• Unfurl students’ unique potential.
• Shifting from the transfer of knowledge to the investigation of unknown knowledge
• Einstein National Geographic.
• Asking teachers about passionate learning experiences that they had.
• Had people that cared about them and what they learned.
• Great learning experiences rarely happen in a classroom setting.
• Relevant to what kids need to learn.
• Why is it so hard for educators to let this go?
• It’s what we experienced and what we know.
• Maybe there is something wrong with me.
• When you’re really struggling with a student, ask what might I do differently and what role can the kids take in fixing the problem.
• It always feels risky to invite kids into the conversation.
• Iowa BIG - architecture project.
• He didn’t have the words to describe what he was missing.

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