Moving Beyond the Fourth Wall

Not all learning is standards-based and not all learning is tied to a specific course or to a specific discipline.

The academic world is artificial. Learning is so much bigger than progress reports, report cards, state assessments, and the five paragraph essay? We invented some of those things to live within the artificiality of the classroom. Let’s connect the classroom to the world beyond. And COVID has shown us it’s possible - not only possible, but preferred. We scratched the surface even with little preparation. Now we have the time to rethink.

Standards are great. But, SO WHAT? How do we connect those to life? What do we really want our students to engage with and how do we use all that we know to create learning goals, experiences, and ways of measuring that move learning beyond the “fourth wall”?

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The Wheelhouse

Exploring Teaching, Learning, & Leading

The Wheelhouse mixes interviews and conversations with in-depth thinking around our foundational components of Fair Winds, our powerhouse framework for disrupting the educational landscape: Accomplishment-Driven Leadership and Powerful Student Care.

We believe it’s our priority as educators to prove to each student how incredibly distinctive and irreplaceable his/her life is. Together, let’s continue to step up to this incredibly important challenge and add additional tools and skills right into our Wheelhouse.

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Grant Chandler

Along with Kathleen Budge, Grant A. Chandler is the author Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learning as Distinctive & Irreplaceable (ASCD, 2023). Chandler brings over 35 years of practical experience as a high school teacher, building and central office administrator, higher education dean, professional learning director in an outreach department at a large research university, and as a technical support provider and executive coach. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of Students Matter. He is the host of The Wheelhouse, a podcast currently in its fourth season and co-host of Abundantly Charged, currently entering its third season. Since 2005, Chandler has provided technical support to over 300 districts in developing systemic approaches to solving student learning issues and was recognized by the US Department of Education as a national expert in small learning communities. He has designed and led professional learning experiences at many levels of the K-12 arena and for many different audiences and has conducted numerous workshops at national, state, and regional conferences. His consultancies include boards of education, state and regional service providers; as well as individual schools and local districts across the United States and internationally. In his spare time, he’s writing a children’s book and raises standard poodles for animal assisted activities. Contact him at grantchandler@ourstudentsmatter.org, www.linkedin.com/in/grant-a-chandler or grantchandler@mastodon.world.