GETideas Virtual Roundtables

Join our Virtual Roundtables each month as we bring together Distinguished Education Leaders and the entire GETideas.org community for interactive discussions on important topics related to education transformation.

Week of May 17:   Student as knowledge worker, customer, volunteer: Implications for curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management and assessment?

Many educational researchers and practitioners, in particular Phil Schlechty (Leading for Learning, 2009), are proposing a new view of the student--as a customer rather than a product of the school, as a 21st century knowledge worker rather than a 20th century factory worker, and as an intellectual volunteer rather than a physical conscript. This view is controversial since it has many implications for the type of work students are given and the way they are treated.  

	Dr. Katie Brochu Superintendent Whitfield County Schools Dalton, Georgia
	Dr. Suzanne Freeman Superintendent Trussville City Schools Trussville, Alabama
	Dr. Nancy Wingenbach Superintendent Orange City Schools Orange City, Ohio

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Upcoming Virtual Roundtables

We'll be hosting important discussions throughout the coming months. Here's a list of upcoming Virtual Roundtable topics.

• April – What policies need to be in place for you to move to digital content rather than textbooks?
• May – Student as knowledge worker, customer, volunteer: Implications for curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management and assessment?