We are inundated with books, articles, blogs, tweets, etc, with folks trying to guess what the future of education will look like and be like.  I think we already know.  It is not as if we haven't learned a lot in the last 25 years from the constant attempts at "school reform."  Thanks to some of the learning we've gained in the early neuroscience research, we know that the brain has "plasticity"(http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/plast.html) that allows it to change through experience, has an emotional base, and loves to build patterns and solve problems!  Our need today is to take advantage of what we have learned and have our classrooms exhibit the type of learning that the brain was made to do.  We don't need to change the structure of school first - we need to change the process - from a "teaching" paradigm to a "learning" paradigm, engaging our students' brain to build meaning.  This blog will function as a place to process this discussion. How do we do that in classrooms of today, preparing our students for their future, the year 2035 (an arbitrary number, but students entering kindergarten in 2021 will either be in college in 2035, or already at work in their professional careers

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