In this episode of Build Momentum, we are joined by Deborah Delisle. Deborah is the president and CEO of the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed), a Washington, D.C.-based national policy practice and advocacy organization that promotes high school transformation to make it possible for every child to graduate prepared for postsecondary learning and success in life.

Some Questions I Ask:

• What is the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) and what does it do to support the education industry? (1:26)
• When did you absorb ‘Future Ready Schools'? (3:30)
• What are you seeing schools doing to navigate this pandemic and what do you anticipate the school year will bring? (4:21)
• What are your thoughts on re-imagining education? (7:26)
• What trends do you see in education? (9:42)
• What are you seeing in general with college and career readiness right now? (14:28)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• What All4Ed is (1:55)
• The ‘Future Ready Schools’ Program (3:35)
• Issues emerging in education in this pandemic (4:49)
• Rethinking learning and education as a whole (7:35)
• Trends in education (10:03)
• College and career readiness in this pandemic (14:44)
• Opportunities in education (17:36)

Quotes:

"We cannot go back to what was. When people say, ‘We have to go back to being normal,’ we weren't normal before. And many kids didn't succeed in a system like that.”

“We really need to just pause. We need to use this time and space. It's a limited opportunity to rethink the possibilities that can exist to engage more kids more robustly—for example, to utilize their talents and aspirations and redesign how schools work, including the incorporation of personalized learning.“

“Going back to rethinking education, we have to think of ourselves as co-facilitators of knowledge and content and learning processes—and as co-facilitators with our students in mind as well, because they have some ideas about how to access information in ways that perhaps we don't even think about.”

“I will often say to people, ‘If you can't buy into that, buy into the notion that these are the kids who will take care of you when you are senior citizens. I want people who care about other people. And that's how you offer kids hope every single day. Kids need hope for a brighter future. That's what they want.”

“Let's offer [kids] hope every day. Every student, every day.”

Connect with Deborah Delisle:
Alliance for Excellent Education
Deborah Delisle's LinkedIn