{"id":616,"date":"2020-05-18T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverliningforlearning.org\/?p=616"},"modified":"2021-02-23T23:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:38:33","slug":"episode-10-crisis-drift-and-new-paradigms-for-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverliningforlearning.org\/episode-10-crisis-drift-and-new-paradigms-for-public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 10 | Crisis, drift, and new paradigms for public education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our guest this week is Dr. Shawn Loescher, Ed.D. Dr. Loescher is an active practitioner with over 25 years of experience, both domestically and abroad, in educational innovation and school system redesign. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Urban Discovery Schools<\/a>, charged with developing an inner-city K\/12 public school system. He has focused his attention on the development and implementation of programs and services to address school site culture, the program of study, college and career readiness, social-emotional learning, human resource development, and all aspects of operations using both Design Thinking and action research.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Dr. Loescher was named one of 16 worldwide recipients of the TED-Ed Innovative Educators Award <\/a>(Note: video embedded below). He earned his doctorate from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU with a focus on leadership, innovation, theory, and policy and his dissertation (“Hope as strategy: The effectiveness of an innovation of the mind<\/em>“) was named the AERA Action Research SIG Dissertation for 2020. He\u2019s a sought-after keynote and TED talk speaker, guest lecturer, consultant, and think tank participant.<\/p>\n

In connection to the current COVID19 crisis. Dr. Loescher has been leading his school during this event. As it happened, all schools in California were declared closed starting Friday, March 13. His school system, was one of the only school systems in California, that was open and ready to go, the very next Monday, March 16! He has shared some of how this was done with us through his blog post: From Risk Averse to Risk Immersed: Leading Schools Through A Paradigm-Shattering Event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shawn is a deep-thinking, thoughtful reflective practitioner and humanistic to the core. We are excited to have him join us on Saturday May 23. Here are some videos and links to get to know him better. If nothing else, I strongly recommend reading his blog post on desks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A lot more about Shawn after the video from the episode:<\/p>\n