Next Education Workforce

Virgel Hammonds, KnowledgeWorks on systems-level change in education

Episode Summary

Brent Maddin talks with Virgel Hammonds, Chief Learning Officer at KnowledgeWorks, about the Next Educator Workforce, systems-level change and educational equity.

Episode Notes

Brent Maddin talks with Virgel Hammonds, Chief Learning Officer at  KnowledgeWorks, in advance of Building the Next Normal, the January 2021 convening hosted by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, where Virgel will be a featured expert.

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• 1:10: Virgel describes the learning communities he has served in the past and communicates the importance of giving students the opportunity to develop their critical consciousness
• 3:08: Virgel explains how co-designing systems with students and community members in order to deliver on the promise of personalizing learning
• 5:21: Virgel shares the policy changes he would make in order to support learner-centered approaches and describes bright spots he has observed across the country (e.g., South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Personalized Learning, Arizona Personalized Learning Network)
• 8:24: Virgel proposes how leaders should think about bringing change to complicated systems and suggests ways leaders might bring learners & community members to the table to help guide change
• 11:42: Virgel shares the importance of building aspirational, collective vision and makes connections to growing inequities and gaps highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic

14:22: Virgel recommends readings educators might consider before they join him at 

Building the Next Normal, the January 2021 convening hosted by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.