One Good Question

Rhonda Broussard

Description

HOW TO ASK CHALLENGING QUESTIONS THAT LEAD YOU TO REAL SOLUTIONS.

Have you ever reached the end of a project and realized that you were solving the wrong question? Based on a blog interview series, Rhonda Broussard - an expert in pedagogy, international education, and racial equity - uses conversations with education leaders from eleven countries to try to answer her one good question. A question that she couldn't answer on her own, a question that could inspire different truths based on context, a question that could bring clarity in complexity. This book provides ample fodder for how you might define your own one good question.

What Broussard finds along the way is even more valuable: these conversations led to more provocations than answers.  Her intense curiosity coincided with the launch of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and introduced Broussard to a global vision for education by the year 2030. This book contemplates questions like Who should really go to college? What voice should parents have in their children's education? How is the economy limiting education access worldwide? One Good Question gives new ways of thinking about the education problems we face today and how they connect us across the globe.

YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT HOW

•   Let youth lead from a social entrepreneur who stepped aside to do just that

•   What urban school communities could be learning from their rural counterpart, and

•   How multi-country partnerships position local experts to lead.

CHAPTER 1: EDUCATION 2030: WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

CHAPTER 2: ARE YOU PREPARING YOUR STUDENTS TO BECOME YOUR PEERS?

CHAPTER 3: WHO IS FOLLOWING THE MONEY?

CHAPTER 4: WHO BENEFITS FROM SCHOOL REDESIGN EFFORTS?

CHAPTER 5: WHY LANGUAGE MATTERS

CHAPTER 6: WHO STILL NEEDS TO GO TO COLLEGE? COLLEGE OR NAH?

CHAPTER 7: DO STUDENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO AGENCY IN THEIR OWN EDUCATION?

CHAPTER 8: WHICH ADULTS SHOULD HAVE AGENCY IN SCHOOL DECISIONS?

CHAPTER 9: WILL SCHOOL EVER BE ENOUGH TO IMPROVE SOMEONE'S TRAJECTORY?

Sujets

• Social Policy
• Public Policy
• Political Science
• EDUCATION
• General officer
• General

Informations

• Publié par: CALEC
• Date de parution: 17 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781636070865
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Copyright © 2022 by Rhonda Broussard
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TBR Books is a program of the Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities. We publish researchers and practitioners who seek to engage diverse communities on topics related to education, languages, cultural history, and social initiatives.
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Front Cover Design and Illustration: Ben D´Nagy, CARTEL
ISBN 978-1-63607-086-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021950330
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“FOR THESE ARE ALL OUR CHILDREN, WE WILL ALL PROFIT BY
OR PAY FOR WHAT THEY BECOME.”
—James Baldwin
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Copyright
Exergue
Advance praise
Foreword by Kaya Henderson
Introduction
Chapter 1: Education 2030: where are we headed?
When women succeed, the world succeeds: Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (South Africa)
One Good Question with Zaki Hasan: Move Bangladesh from fashion economy to thought economy (Bangladesh)
One Good Question with Susan Patrick: How can we build trust in our education system? (USA)
One Good Question with John Wood: Teaching the world to read (USA)
What are you wondering?
Chapter 2: Are you preparing your students to become your peers?
One Good Question with Darren Isom: Are you preparing your students to become your peers? (USA)
One Good Question with Chris Plutte: Can global understanding help us address race issues in the United States? (USA)
One Good Question with Ejaj Ahmad: Why we should build leadership instead of leaders (Bangladesh)
One Good Question with Vania Masias: How to disrupt the victim mentality when investing in youth agency (Peru)
What are you wondering?
Chapter 3: Who is following the money?
One Good Question with Mike DeGraff: Are schools destroying the maker movement? (USA)
One Good Question with Dr. Michael Goetz: How school spending impacts change (USA)
One Good Question with Nicole de Beaufort: What if we built education funding on abundance, not scarcity? (USA)
One Good Question with Dan Varner: Is gender bias keeping the US from investing in Pre-K? (USA)
One Good Question with Kathy Padian: How does leadership Trump funding in school system improvement? (USA)
What are you wondering?
7 Books, 2 talks, 1 TV show and Al Pacino – what One Good Question folks are reading.
Chapter 4: Who benefits from school redesign efforts?
One Good Question with Anna Hall: Can you break up with your best ideas? (USA)
One Good Question with Connie K. Chung: How can we build systems to support powerful learning? (USA)
One Good Question with Tony Monfiletto: Are the right people in the education redesign process? (USA)
One Good Question with Saku Tuominen: Next 100 years of Finnish education (Finland)
One Good Question with Noelle Lim: What STEAM could mean for Malaysia (Malaysia)
One Good Question with Aylon Samouha: Is there a silver bullet for the future of “school”? (USA)
One Good Question with Tom Vander Ark: Can design thinking & rethinking scale boost education equity? (USA)
What are you wondering?
Chapter 5: Why language matters
One Good Question with Karen Beeman: How biliteracy supports social justice for all (USA)
One Good Question with Suzanne Talhouk: Is academic language enough? a look at social capital and minoritized languages (Lebanon)
One Good Question with Dr. Fred Genesee: Do struggling learners belong in language immersion programs? (Canada)
One Good Question with Dr. Eliza Souza Lima: We must teach children to learn: language lessons from neuroscience (Brazil)
One Good Question with Deanne Thomas: How do we create opportunities for Māori to get into leadership roles?
What are you wondering?
Chapter 6: Who still needs to go to college? college or nah?
One Good Question with Ben Nelson: Do we actually believe that college matters? (USA)
One Good Question with Susanna Williams: Is higher ed the equalizer we think? (USA)
Is college still relevant? One Good Question with J.B. Schramm (USA)
One Good Question with Marcelo Knobel: General studies reform for brazil's universities (Brazil)
What are you wondering?
Chapter 7: Do students have the right to agency in their own education?
One Good Question with Susan Patrick: What students (and schools) can do if we stop ranking them (USA)
One Good Question with Alex Hernandez: Personalized learning and design thinking matter for all kids (USA)
One Good Question with Nicole Young: Can students and teachers impact ed policy? (USA)
One Good Question with Peter Howe: Are we incentivizing the right behaviors for teachers and students? (The Netherlands)
What are you wondering?
Chapter 8: Which adults should have agency in school decisions?
One Good Question with Kaya Henderson: What will make my heart sing? (USA)
One good question with Dr. Denese Shervington: How do we re-engage the Black middle class in public education? (USA)
One Good Question with Ellen Moir: What's trust got to do with it? (USA)
One Good Question with Fabrice Jaumont: How parent organizing leads to revolution (USA)
One Good Question with Allan Golston: Investing in instruction matters most (USA)
What are you wondering?
Chapter 9: Will school ever be enough to improve someone's trajectory?
One Good Question with Anu Passi-Rauste: Education to build talent pipelines (Finland)
One Good Question with Ana Ponce: Is school enough for our kids? (USA)
One Good Question with Derwin Sisnett: Which do you build first, schools or communities? (USA)
One Good Question with Susan Baragwanath: The only way to break the cycle of poverty (New Zealand)
What are you wondering?
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
About Rhonda
Intervie biographies
Appendix
Advance praise

“Posing good questions is essential to a meaningful life. Now is a good time for wondering—and working with others. This book demonstrates the richness of thinking together. . . and turning more ideas into actions. I just want to rush out and begin.”
Bernardine Vester, Founder, Education Plus Auckland

“Visionary leaders approach knowledge with sharing, and often that sharing comes in the form of asking direct, simple, hard questions. One Good Question leads with this principle, and Rhonda’s leadership and voice is the guide we need for these times and conversations.”
Tre Johnson, author of Black Genius

“ One Good Question engages readers in a deep reflective trajectory by interacting with probing questions that lead readers to their own ‘one good question,’ reconnecting them with their core beliefs about inclusive and quality education for all students. Thank you, Rhonda, for guiding my own self-reflection so masterfully!”
Ofelia G. Wade, Utah Spanish Dual Language Immersion Director

“As Clayton Christensen often said, questions create spaces in the brain for solutions to fall into. In this delightful read, Rhonda Broussard pushes us all to ask and answer the right questions—not the convenient ones—to help society make progress.”
Michael B. Horn, author and cofounder of the Clayton Christensen Institute

“Whereas monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century, equity is the foundation of the 21st century. Rhonda Broussard uniquely understands both and her book masterfully weaves key concepts of sustainable development in education by asking experts what their One Good Question is for a fair-minded education system of tomorrow!”
Gregg Roberts, Director, Dual Language Studies, American Councils Research Center

“In One Good Question , Rhonda Broussard models the essence of learning—curiosity. In following her genuine interest in discovering what will make for an equitable education system, Rhonda invites the reader into rich dialogue with some of the great thinkers and doers who are truly making it happen for kids every day, and in the process creates a map for anyone who cares about educating our youth.”
Diane Tavenner, author of Prepared: What Kids Need for a Full Life

“Inspirational and informative. Broussard takes the timely questions we should all be asking, and brings us on a truly enjoyable journey to understand what kids and our schools need to lead in the future.”
Stephanie Malia Krauss, author of Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World

“People who are serious about educating future generations as Rhonda Broussard is tend to possess a deep humility, an understanding that they must approach the task of education with more questions than answers and a joyful commitment to go where their curiosity and the resulting evidence lead them. This is not a book to read if you want your biases confirmed; it’s a book to read if you are serious about putting your assumptions to the test. Broussard asks her ‘one good question’ to education leaders the whole world over. If you’re committed to assisting the next generation in becoming global citizens, do yourself a favor and ponder their answers—and also their questions.”
Jarvis DeBerry, author of I Feel to Believe

“How does one convince an entire culture that it has been asking the wrong questions? Further, that the act of learning to question might be an answer itself? In this smart and urgent collection, global educator Rhonda Broussard asks us to consider the revolutionary potential of a problem-posing approach to education in an era marked by widening social inequity, viral social media, and critical social justice. These visionary questions push us to imagine how different our worlds might look if we dared to possess the courage to approach the classroom (among other spaces) with less certainty and more wonderment, fewer fears of losing a foothold within capitalism and greater conviction in young peoples’ capacity