#39 Jeff Wetzler & Jenee Henry Wood, Transcend: Providing Schools with an R&D Department

Transcend is a non-profit addressing the lack of R&D departments for education, by working with schools to figure out what they want to change and then helping them do it. Jeff Wetzler, Co-Founder and Jenee Henry Wood, Partner, discuss how their guiding principles will shift schools from an industrial model of mass production which sorts and ranks, to one whose purpose and design point toward equity and positive student experience.

Show notes:
- More about Transcend: https://www.transcendeducation.org/
- Edgecombe County & Transcend case study (incl. academic success, page 9): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pI5MECv2g7ayKpWN26UnPoWYiM2sB4W1/view
- Book: Forrest Carter, ‘The Education of Little Tree’ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116236.TheEducationofLittleTree
- Book: Frederic Laloux ‘Reinventing Organisations’. https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
- Book: John Steinbeck, ‘East of Eden’ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4406.EastofEden
- Book: Mark Twain, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn