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1. What is the purpose of
education?
A sample activity
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2. Short free write (3 minutes)
• What should students learn in
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school?
Why is this important?

3. Pair-Share (3 minutes)
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Turn to a neighbor and share your ideas

4. Questions
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(to consider while watching)
Agreements: What aspects of what the speaker says do you
agree with?
Disagreements:Where do you disagree?
Implications: How does our school align with why the
speaker “loves education but hates schooling?”

6. Structured group conversation
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Round 1: First person describes where they agree with the
video (1 minute or less). Next person has 15 seconds to
paraphrase what person 1 says. Then 1 minute for their own
answer.Continue to go around the circle.
Round 2: Where do you disagree?
Round 3: How does our school align with why the speaker
“loves education but hates schooling?

7. Report out
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Questions and next steps
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In the same small groups, create a poster to share
with the whole group.
3 key takeaways.
Share out ideas with whole group

8. Whole group discussion
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Does our school encourage students to do
work worth doing?
How could we improve our school?

9. Extension Activity
Looking at the themes that have emerged
have students redesign a school from the
group up.
--What would this school look and feel like?
--What would students be doing? Teachers?
--Create an artifact from that new school