Education
In this podcast episode, Leadership+Design's Tara Curry-Jahn interviews friend and colleague Gretchen Morgan about her over 20 year journey through education, the lessons and insights collected in her varied roles and some projections on how we can inspire greater equity and impact in the delivery of educational services. They also discuss possible steps to counter the compliance culture of education to make room for more learning for all students and communities. Gretchen leads the Center for Innovation in Education.Gretchen Morgan has spent the past 20 years as an innovative educator; as an elementary teacher, middle and high school principal, K-12 program developer for Expeditionary Learning, and now Executive Director of Choice and Innovation for the Colorado Department of Education. Her best job, however, is being a mom to two wonderful kids who fill her up with imaginary friends, lacrosse, stories, bikes, ideas for businesses, and THE best hugs. She has also authored, Innovative Educator, an Action Plan for Teachers. The Center for Innovation in Education works to advance systems that seek greater equity in how children develop the identity, community, agency, and competency that pave the way for greater equity in our larger society.At C!E we believe a new approach to public education governance is emerging - an approach in which leadership of the system is neither top down, nor bottom up, but something more collaborative and complex that engages the public’s trust. We act on this aspiration by forming learning communities of leaders who are committed to striving for the kind of extraordinary leadership that builds, sustains and repairs relationships across traditional lines of difference to reshape systems so that they are, by design, always seeking greater equity.Learn more: https://www.leadingwithlearning.org/who-we-areSupport the show (https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001qgI9GeY_mqToEV7UgRCwMymNBYIpS6RTjG1bVZu6TbUnlLbp1lELhuI6gvjg-by6_5hpextPmSu4XcNmhRjAf82q6VB-9Ap9P4ImLXQDHML6j3yAzNine7Jo3AgOmu1G56v0xycE7vXu2fCY_V4wBKLkoMaol7LtcFHjF6iKPr9s48OanvbFjE0YzKADCOjN)