We challenge the grading mindset that squeezes the life out of young writers and replace it with coaching, curiosity, and real audiences. Julie Bogart shares practical steps—jot-it-down, family freewrites, reader response, playful revision, and a kind mechanics mop-up—that help kids find their voice. • treating writing as self-expression first, transcription second • separating ideas from mechanics and using scribing or voice-to-text • shifting from evaluation to allyship and coaching • crea...
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We challenge the grading mindset that squeezes the life out of young writers and replace it with coaching, curiosity, and real audiences. Julie Bogart shares practical steps—jot-it-down, family freewrites, reader response, playful revision, and a kind mechanics mop-up—that help kids find their voice. • treating writing as self-expression first, transcription second • separating ideas from mechanics and using scribing or voice-to-text • shifting from evaluation to allyship and coaching • crea...
Episode 70: Beyond One Size Fits All Learning. A Conversation with Yong Zhao.
KindlED | The Prenda Podcast
57 minutes
2 months ago
Episode 70: Beyond One Size Fits All Learning. A Conversation with Yong Zhao.
Dr. Yong Zhao challenges us to keep children at the center of education by acknowledging their uniqueness and building learning systems around that core idea. His approach aims to give kids the skills they need for meaningful future work instead of the synthetic tasks often imposed throughout traditional K-12 education. • Education should build on student strengths, not force mastery of every weak spot • Meritocracy fails by judging all kids with the same yardstick instead of hon...
KindlED | The Prenda Podcast
We challenge the grading mindset that squeezes the life out of young writers and replace it with coaching, curiosity, and real audiences. Julie Bogart shares practical steps—jot-it-down, family freewrites, reader response, playful revision, and a kind mechanics mop-up—that help kids find their voice. • treating writing as self-expression first, transcription second • separating ideas from mechanics and using scribing or voice-to-text • shifting from evaluation to allyship and coaching • crea...
