Big Data.
you’ll be led by
If you don’t lead with small data,
Learning from one another is the greatest opportunity we have to provide all children
with a great school they deserve.
To rush educational reform
is to ruin it.
Learning from one another is the greatest opportunity we have to provide all children
with a great school they deserve.
To rush educational reform
is to ruin it.
I was privileged to spend almost three years at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education teaching ad researching educational change for a completely new perspective. As an alien observer to education policies and practices in the United States allowed me to ask funny questions and also reflect my own perceptions about what education actually is all for. Tens of school visits and hundreds of conversations with teachers, principals and education leaders led me to an idea to write a book about how do someone like me see the state of education in America. My time in senior management posts at home in Finland gave me an unique platform to understand these questions in various perspectives. In recent years I have had numerous opportunities to host delegations of educators visiting Finland from the United States and other parts…
Read moreBeyond Bystanders calls for a shift in the professional self-image of teachers from agents of socialization to active advocates of human flourishing, social justice, and world betterment. The editors propose that it is irresponsible for…
My new book with Karen Hammerness and Raisa Ahtiainen titled Empowered Educators in Finland will appear in April as part of a series, with a main volume by Linda Darling-Hammond and Dion Burns: EMPOWERED EDUCATORS: HOW HIGH-PERFORMING SYSTEMS SHAPE…
20 January 2017 My new book “Hard Questions on Global Educational Change” is now published by Teachers College Press and available in all main bookstores. It is a very different book than Finnish Lessons 2.0 in many ways. Hard…
29.11.2016 Apunen on uusi podcast-sarja, jonka juontajana on EVAn Matti Apunen. Sain kutsun olla sarjan avausjakson vieraana. Matti esitti johdantona mm. seuraavia kysymyksiäÖ Petämmekö itseämme Pisa-tuloksilla? Eikö pieni määrä markkinataloutta…
