THE HECHINGER REPORT: Making Room for Grassroots Change

"Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist turned education philanthropist, is convinced the U.S. education system needs to change. But he doesn’t want to force it. He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. The method of transforming K-12 schools that he advocates in his latest book, What Schools Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America, is of the grassroots variety. Small steps lead to big change, he says.

Dintersmith points to North Dakota as a place where the people at the top of the state leadership hierarchy are making room for schools to innovate at the local level. He has spent a fair amount of time in the state since his nationwide tour, putting a portion of his fortune toward grants and statewide efforts to encourage innovation."

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