Redefining Student Success: Building a New Vision to Transform Leading, Teaching, and Learning
Redefining Student Success: Building a New Vision to Transform Leading, Teaching, and Learning
The future of learning has arrived, and it requires bold educational leadership and a dramatic redefinition of what it means to be a successful student today. In the latest offering of LiFT Learning’s Excellence in Education Webinar series, Suzie Boss and Ken Kay invite you to lead this transformation with audacity.
Suzie and Ken recently published Redefining Student Success, which engages leaders with the concepts and actions needed to reimagine schools, address inequities, and help today’s students develop the skills they need for personal, economic, and civic success. This vital guide supports transformative leadership with concrete guidance on how to create a Portrait of a Graduate and Portrait of an Educator, compelling examples of students already engaged in creative, self-directed problem-solving around issues that matter to them and their communities, together with stories that illustrate how districts and schools have arrived at their own vision of what education must become.
Speakers
Ken Kay has worked for almost two decades as an “education provocateur” promoting a new model of K-12 education for the 21st century. Most recently, he served as CEO of Edleader21, a professional learning community of more than 200 school districts around the United States. Prior to his work with Edleader21, Ken was the founding president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and executive director of the CEO Forum on Education and Technology.
Ken’s latest book, Redefining Student Success: Building a New Vision to Transform Leading, Teaching and Learning, was co-authored with Suzie Boss and published by Corwin in 2021. He is also co-author with Valerie Greenhill of The Leader’s Guide to 21st Century Education: 7 Steps for Schools and Districts. Ken is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Denver College of Law.
Suzie Boss is an author and educational consultant from Portland, Oregon, who focuses on the power of teaching and learning to improve lives and transform communities. She is a regular contributor to Edutopia, a member of the PBLWorks National Faculty, and an advocate for authentic, student-driven learning experiences. Suzie is the writer of 10 books including Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World and co-author of Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age.
Propelled by instructors who push the limits of conventional teaching and learning, she has helped schools and communities grow in India, Mexico, South Korea and throughout Europe and North America. Suzie’s latest book, Redefining Student Success: Building a New Vision to Transform Leading, Teaching and Learning, was co-authored with Ken Kay.