Interviews

Why We Can’t Escape the Status Quo in Education: 200 years of doing the same thing just won’t cut it

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By Michael Fullan — January 09, 2023  3 min read

This is Part I in a two-part series by Michael Fullan.

The first mystery of system change in education is why has the 200-year-old current system in Western societies not transformed when the majority of people have known for at least 50 years that it does not work?

The second mystery is why “the system,” aside from using technology more frequently, is likely to revert to the status quo even when a pandemic has presented the opportunity to make fundamental change?

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Have you read these articles?: Two new articles and our Interview with Peter DeWitt have been posted

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Here are 6 Reasons Our Students Should Be Seen as Changemakers

Michael Fullan
September 6, 2022

When It Comes to the Teacher Shortage, Who’s Abandoning Whom?

Michael Fullan & Joanna Rizzotto
August 15, 2022

 

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Total Human Capital (THC), Asking the Hard Questions, Interview with Michael Fullan

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In this 53-minute recording, Teresa Hand-Campbell (THC) interviews Michael Fullan covering updated research in education, the impact of COVID-19 on education, the right drivers for whole system success, New Pedagogies for Deep Learning, and much more.

September 2021

https://youtu.be/j5LNxpjpgyI

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Budgeting for Educational Equity Podcast

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https://www.buzzsprout.com/1824178/9116323
Budgeting for Educational Equity
4 – The Time and Space to Innovate Towards Equitable School Systems
AUGUST 31, 2021 CASBO AND WESTED EPISODE 4

School districts face extreme urgency to safely return students to in-person environments and help them recover from a pandemic that has not yet ended. At the same time, leaders and practitioners are pressing to expeditiously but thoughtfully allocate a windfall of new state and federal dollars – all the while trying to leverage the unique opportunity created by these circumstances to bring about transformative changes to our public school systems.

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Our Increasingly Troubled World Creates an Engaging Opportunity for Students

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Education Week Blog
By Peter DeWitt
April 28, 2019

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2019/04/why_pedagogy_and_politics_must_partner.html

Today’s guest blog, Part Two of two blogs, is written by Michael Fullan, an international expert on leadership and school systems. 

We know that the world is becoming increasingly troubled because of climate change, unclear and diminished job markets, growing inequity, increased anxiety and stress, wild and unpredictable technology, deterioration of trust, and crumbling social cohesion. This has had an incredible impact on education because in many ways this all plays out in our schools.

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Why Pedagogy and Politics Must Partner

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Education Week Blog
By Peter DeWitt
April 25, 2019

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2019/04/why_pedagogy_and_politics_must_partner.html

Today’s guest blog is written by Michael Fullan, an international expert on leadership and school systems. 

Five years ago, we started to work with education systems on “deep learning.” We did this partly because increasing numbers of students were bored with regular schooling—as many as 70 percent were disengaged.

However, we also found that the world was becoming increasingly troubled because of climate change,

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