In 2019, I was invited to present at the Arizona State University Global Silicon Valley conference (https://www.asugsvsummit.com/about-the-summit). As an educator and school administrator for the past 25 years, I have seen slow progress in moving low-income students to and through college. My talk here focuses on the student story and the need to create a National Student Passport that describes the individual student story and helps inform others who this person really is. Our stories are perhaps significantly more valuable than the data (SAT, ACT, GPA) that otherwise is our only calling card. Without the critical information of “how I got here,” colleges and workplaces simply don’t know how to nurture and activate learners to be their very best.
In early 2020, I was commissioned to explore the intersection between the health care system and K12 schools. One takeaway is the remarkable gap between what we hope our schools should do in terms of student wellness, and what we can do to create a stronger, more agile “manager” of this intersection.
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David Stirrat 