Sanna Lund and her dad, Einars, live on their family apple orchard in Door County, WI. While the business is struggling, Sanna stays devoted to making cider and tending to the orchard alongside her dad. Developers are more than interested in buying the orchard and turning it into a theme park, but the idea to Einars and Sanna is unthinkable. Einars hires Isaac Banks, a handsome father from California, for summer help on the orchard. He moves onto the land with his son, Bass, from whom he is keeping a big secret. While Sanna appreciates Isaac’s help on the orchard after her dad is injured, she can’t help but feeling like the newest
Partners power Coursera. It is their expertise, content, and credentials that bring over 110 million learners to the platform to transform their lives. As we continue to expand these valuable partnerships and the job-relevant content on Coursera, I’m pleased to welcome Marni Baker Stein as our new Chief Content Officer, starting December 19, 2022.
Marni will be responsible for deepening our relationships with our 275+ university and industry partners. She’ll work closely with them on content and credential innovations that will increase access, align with job market demands, and meet learners where they are. She brings more than 25 years of experience producing and scaling online and hybrid education programs to Coursera.
Most recently, Marni was Chief Academic Officer and Provost at Western Governors University (WGU), where she led its four colleges and served more than 135,000 students with programs that improved access and affordability
You try to fake it, but it limps right out of your mouth, barely alive: “How was school?”
You might use a slight variation like, “What’d you learn in school today?” but in a single sentence, all that is wrong with ‘school.’
First, the detachment–you literally have no idea what they’re learning or why. (You leave that up to school because that’s what school’s for, right?) Which means you know very little about what your children are coming to understand about the world, only able to speak about it in vague terms of content areas (e.g., math, history).
Then, there’s the implication–they don’t talk about the way that they’ve been moved or impressed upon or changed but in the rarest cases; you have to drag it out of them.
And there’s also the matter of form–you ask them as if a developing learner will be able to
One important finding from Moll and colleagues’ study is that the people with whom children interacted possessed a multidimensional understanding of a child. They report:
Thus, the “teacher” in these home based contexts of learning will know the child as a “whole” person, not merely as a “student,” taking into account or having knowledge about the multiple spheres of activity within which the child is enmeshed. In comparison, the typical teacher–student relationships seem “thin” and “single- stranded,” as the teacher “knows” the students only from their performance within rather limited classroom contexts. (pp. 133–134)
These teacher-learners were intent on learning from and with families, creating a two-way stream of communication that centered the experiences of their students’ households. Students were not separate from their communities. This intention, and the actions of home visits and observations of students’ family networks, established a level of trust with families that helped create a
What a year it’s been! We are so thankful for our community of educators who joined us every Thursday to level up their professional development with us in the HiMama Helps Webinar Series! We really couldn’t have done this without our amazing community of educators.
As we reflect on this incredible year, we’ve rounded up the top 5 webinar sessions of 2022 in case you missed them! Ready to dive into our most popular webinars? And don’t forget to save your spot for our first webinar of 2023!
Tom Hobson, also known as Teacher Tom, from Teacher Tom’s World joined us to discuss effective play-based learning in early childhood education and how we can encourage children to be leaders in their own learning. With play-based learning on the rise among early learning centers, Tom shared some timely strategies and real-life examples of the benefits of play-based learning.
