Silver Lining for Learning

Transforming Schools to Personalize Education

Episode Summary

Transforming schools to personalize education with Peter Hutton & Michael Ha

Episode Notes

Personalization of learning has become a major goal of educational transformation. But very few schools have actually achieved true personalization, which Yong Zhao calls personalizable education in his book Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children. Personalizable education requires flexible curriculum, flexible leadership, flexible facilities, flexible scheduling, and a number of other flexibilities. It also requires schools to give students autonomy for self-determination. In this episode, we invite two school leaders from Australia Peter Hutton and Michael Ha to discuss how they have achieved personalizable education in their schools.