Ted Dintersmith, one of the leading voices on innovation and education, took a trip across America visiting schools in all fifty states in a single school year. He met teachers doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where students learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge. Taken together, these ways of teaching and learning offer a vision of what school could be and a model for transforming schools.
Reviewed by Carol Campbell, PhD
Vice President for Education
Southwestern Union Conference
By Nicholas Day, Art by Brett Helquist