Season 4: Episode 37 – Learner-Centered Educator and Leadership Competencies – Interview with Rebecca Wolfe [Podc...

In this episode we are speaking with Rebecca Wolfe about her work on educator and leadership competencies for learner-centered, personalized education.
Rebecca is an Associate Vice President at Jobs for the Future where she oversees the  Students at the Center initiative. Students at the Center serves as a national, credible, and influential voice for transformative learner-centered teaching and learning practices. Together with their partners, Students at the Center aims to ensure all students – with a special focus on low-income youth and students of color – have concrete opportunities to acquire the skills, knowledge, and dispositions needed for success in college, the workforce, and civic life.
Rebecca has authored or co-authored numerous publications on student-centered learning including Rethinking Readiness: Deeper learning for college, work, and life”  and Anytime, Anywhere: Student-centered learning for schools and teachers, both from Harvard Education Press.
Recently, Rebecca was recognized as the New England Secondary School Consortium’s 2018 Regional Champion for being a “tireless leader in New England’s effort to ensure high-quality learning experiences for all students across the region.”
Here’s what we discussed:
Let’s start off by sharing with our listeners how you distinguish learner-centered from the dominant school-centered paradigm.
Why is it important for us to specifically and comprehensively identify a set of competencies for educators and leaders that focus on learner-centered environments? Tell us a little bit about the work that led to the initial frameworks for educators and leaders.
Give us a 35,000 level look at the educator competencies and the four domains.
Our work on the Shift Your Paradigm podcast has been focused on identifying new principles of leadership through our conversations with learner-centered leaders and learners. So we are very curious about how leadership looks different in learner-centered environments! Share with us the domains and some of the competencies that make up the leadership framework?
How might leaders go about using the leadership competencies?
What’s next for this work on educator and leadership competencies? What’s next for you, Rebecca?
Exploring Additional Resources:
Jobs for the Future
Educator Competencies – http://bit.ly/PersComp
Leadership Competencies – http://bit.ly/LeadSCL
www.studentsatthecenterhub.org
http://bit.ly/SCL4principles
Learn more about Students at the Center Design Studio, October 17-18, 2018 in Portland, ME. (Select link for PDF)

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How does a shift in educator and leadership competencies help promote a shift in the educational paradigm from school-centered to learner-centered?
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