Ed Surge – Blake Montgomery
“At 9:25 a.m. on Friday, Mar. 4, Marthaa Torres joined Anderson (his first name), a sophomore at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco, for his College & Career class. She’s not his classmate, though; she’s his principal. Ms. Torres wasn’t there just to learn about Anderson’s day, but to see whether the English language learner is engaged in his coursework, “I’m worried he hasn’t been challenged enough. I want to see if that’s true firsthand.” Torres and I sat in Anderson’s class as a part of the Shadow a Student Challenge, an initiative from IDEO, the Stanford d.School and the Hewlett Foundation that hopes to foster empathy between administrators and students. It’s the first part of a larger suite of programs, School Retool, aimed at redesigning many traditional, entrenched school processes.”(more)