The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about the ways that listeners can help their schools transform to the personalized, competency-based paradigm of education. Dr. Reigeluth describes what a school board member, superintendent, principal, teacher, parent, student,...

Chapter 9 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about the ways that a school can transform itself to the personalized, competency-based paradigm of education. Dr. Reigeluth describes some fundamental principles that guide a successful transformation process fo...

Chapter 8 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about the ways that a school district can transform itself to the personalized, competency-based paradigm of education. Dr. Reigeluth describes some fundamental principles that guide a successful transformation p...

Chapter 4 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about how to shift the educational paradigm in American schools by redefining the roles of teachers, parents, students and technology. Dr. Reigeluth describes the transformative power of activating the student&ap...

Chapter 5 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about how the curriculum in American school must change over time and address the needs of the Digital Age to be most effective for students. Dr. Reigeluth highlights the importance of how critical thinking, prob...

Chapter 6 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , and his co-author Dr. Jennifer Karnopp about the ways that school culture needs to change in America. Dr. Reigeluth and Dr. Karnopp explain how, in order to achieve the learner-centered paradigm, schools much ado...

Chapter 7 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about the ways that the structure of a school needs to change in order to transition from the Industrial Age educational paradigm to a paradigm that prepares learners for the Digital Age. Dr. Reigeluth explains h...

Chapter 3 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about how to truly personalize learning in the classroom. Building on the foundation of competency-based education, Dr. Reigeluth explains how project-based learning, just-in-time tutorials, collaborative team-ba...

Chapter 2 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about how America's time-based education system is setting students up for failure. When progress depends on the calendar instead of true learning, students accumulate gaps, confidence drops, and potential i...

Chapter 1 of 10. In this opening episode, host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth , author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education , about why America’s schools are in crisis, and why wholesale paradigm change is needed if American schools are going to be able to compete on the world stage.  From poor international ran...