Dr Denis Littky is the
co-founder and co-director of Big Picture Learning. He has over 40 years in the
education field and is known for his innovations in secondary education in
rural, suburban and urban settings.
I have been studying Dr
Littky’s work for this project. I saw an excellent talk by him online, at the
New York Education TED Talks event where he spoke about the work he is doing
and his passion for education.
Watch the TED Talk here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpqVPtUIFQ
Watch the TED Talk here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpqVPtUIFQ
He starts the talk saying,
‘Every thirteen seconds, there are eight hundred students dropping out of
school.’
I think about what the numbers
are around the world and it scares me. The question to ask here is not why students are dropping out but why are they
not being engaged enough to stay in.
Dr. Denis Littky got together
with a colleague and asked himself this question.
