by Rohan Menon | Apr 13, 2023 | Blog, Learner-centered Communities, Learner-Centered School Design, School Design, Youth Voices
At the end of January 2023, reDesign began reviewing the dozens of applications we received for our 2023 Youth Advisory Council program. Together, they paint a picture of what students are seeing, hearing, and feeling about their schools and communities — and how to...
by Rohan Menon | Dec 7, 2022 | Blog, Education, Society and Culture
Underlying the quiet, but fatal erosion of democracy in our country is a stark reality – Americans have forgotten what democracy feels like. We need a new hub for civic education and democratic participation – why not schools? Read the full article below....
by Rohan Menon | Dec 1, 2022 | Blog, Featured Insights, The Human Learner
The frenzied competition to monetize our attention is actively undermining our students’ opportunities to practice high-level cognition and meaning-making in the classroom. More importantly, it’s demanding that we build a new mental image of what “learning” really...
by Rohan Menon | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog, Education, Society and Culture, Featured Insights
In the United States today, we’ve inherited an education system that is profoundly alienating for many of our nation’s young people. The eternal, fundamental questions about education that such a system must address — What should education be? For whom? How? And why?...