BSp-Finland


FINLAND is often held up as a country that "gets" education, with a government that uses both policy and funding to secure learning opportunities for its students that are difficult to replicate in other parts of the world.  This is a classic bright spot.  What accounts for this success?  What is working in Finland that we're not seeing in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere?

 

Here is a recent Atlantic article Dec 2011 for discussion framing 1/15 and 1/22.

 

Additional FINLAND framing 1/29 from Joe Bower (Paradox)

Great FINLAND curated resource page from Jerry B and Larry Ferlazzo (Turnaround links)

NY Book Review "Schools We Can Envy" from Brenda Young  .. " .. the central aim of Finnish education is the development of each child as a thinking, active, creative person, not the attainment of higher test scores, and the primary strategy of Finnish education is cooperation, not competition..."

 

CHAT TAKEAWAYS

 

Here are preliminary takeaways from Bright Spot #Ecosys chat 1/15/12

 

 

Here's the Finland3 transcript, (printed to PDF from chrome at end of session)

 

Please RT and/or Favorite additional tweets for anything we missed here.  We can come back to FINLAND again in the future as we need to.  GREAT insights, thanks so much.  Chris 1/29/12 

 

 

What is Ecosys?

 

It's a conversation about change in our social ecosystems, currently focused on K12 Education.  Here's more on our framing and our wiki frontpage brightspots topics