{"id":121,"date":"2017-04-21T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/?p=121"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:16:17","slug":"now-this-is-not-the-end-it-is-not-even-the-beginning-of-the-end-but-it-is-perhaps-the-end-of-the-beginning-winston-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/2017\/04\/21\/now-this-is-not-the-end-it-is-not-even-the-beginning-of-the-end-but-it-is-perhaps-the-end-of-the-beginning-winston-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill"},"content":{"rendered":"

My journey this year started with a passion for change in the physical environment that our students were learning within.\u00a0An image of classrooms over time and how they have (not) changed seemed to spark something inside of me. Classrooms have traditionally been designed in a way that encourages individual\u00a0success and relies on one individual (teacher) to share their own knowledge. \u00a0Why?<\/p>\n

Is that what the world needs now? Adults that have been trained to sit alone, learn alone, be alone.<\/p>\n

Employees are looking for adults who know how to collaborate, cooperate, be creative, problem solve, and understand themselves and their strengths, allowing them to make a difference and contribute.<\/p>\n

My initial plan was to redesign the classroom, I thought a classroom that was built to be flexible in order to accommodate different needs, at different times, for different subjects, would create the changes that are necessary. I wanted wall-to- wall whiteboards and opportunities for students to be creative and share their ideas with one another.<\/p>\n

Throughout my \u201caction plan\u201d design thinking experience and the conversations I had with some of the other Cohort21 members, I realized that all the changes I wanted had more to do with:<\/p>\n