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Articles by Diane Tavenner

Diane Tavenner is CEO of Summit Public Schools and co-founder of the Summit Learning Program. She is a life-long educator, innovator, and the author of Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life.

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Articles by Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E18: Anxiety, Fear, and the Importance of Listening

A New Way to Innovate at Schools: Embrace a Child-Like Mind, Test Boundaries

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E16: Is Legislation the Best Way to End the ‘Reading Wars’?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E15: How Hardening Schools Could Harm Students

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E14: How to Design a College Alternative

Class Disrupted: When Students Help Direct What They’re Taught in School

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E12: It’s Time We Talked Money

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E11: Scaling the New, Sunsetting the Old

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E10: Education Reflections from Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia and India

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E9: Shake-Up in the Assessment Market

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E8: Why Failure — and Pivoting from It — Is Hard in Education

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E7: Beneath the AI Hype

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E6: How Do You Staff Innovation?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E5: Why Aren’t There More Innovative Schools?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E4: What Should Schools Try and Test?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E3: Is There a Teacher Shortage? It Depends

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E2: What Does a Real Pilot Look Like in a School?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E1: The Disruptive Journey Ahead

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E20: Does Banning Things Actually Keep Children Safe in Schools?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E19: Are Older Students Fixed in Their Abilities?

Class Disrupted Podcast: 30 Years After the 1st Charter School

Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Is America Facing a Teacher Shortage? Inside the Numbers That Say Yes — and No

Class Disrupted S3 E11: What is Driving Parent Frustration with Schools?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E10: The Unworkable Burden On Schools

Omicron, Schools & Ted Lasso: What the Comedy Can Teach Us About Crisis Response

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E8: 3 Big Education Wishes for 2022

Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different (and How Did We Get Here?)

Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E3: Who Decides What Gets Taught?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

When the Teacher Becomes the Student: What I Learned From Making ‘Class Disrupted’

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 10: We Should Have Fixed Inequity in Education Yesterday. Now the Pandemic Has Made Redesigning the System Exponentially More Urgent

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 9: Should School Be Year-Round?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 8: The Faulty Promise of Tests

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 7: Straight A’s for All? What’s the Purpose of a Grade?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 6: Help! My Child and I Are Overwhelmed!

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 5: My Kid’s Able to Finish Schoolwork in 3 Hours. So What Is He Doing for the 6 in School?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 4: Why Are We Doing School?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 3: Why Can’t Sal Khan Just Teach Everyone?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 2: Why Is My Child Doing So Many Worksheets Right Now?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 1: Why Doesn’t Every Student Have a Device and the Internet? How One Texas District Is Leading the Way for Virtual Learning

LISTEN: Introducing the Class Disrupted Podcast, a Weekly Pandemic Education Conversation Hosted by Author Michael Horn & Summit Public Schools’ Diane Tavenner

Book Excerpt: School Leader Diane Tavenner on Helping Students to Engage in Class and Teachers Finding That ‘Sweet Spot’ Between Kids Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail