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These videos, especially the first one, moved me tremendously. The roots are astronomical and so powerful. This is exactly what we need to provide for students today. Of course they need to be global citizens, but they also need to be educated local citizens. I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!

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Commonality: reaching into and connecting with the community using common language, culture (music :) ) and listening, learning before identifying issues/solutions and making action happen within the community rather than taking action and applying it to the community.

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The Highlander School was formed to  meet students where they were and move them forward, using the culture of their community to make progress. It was also fluid, moving from labor work to civil rights work. My understanding of the Fuse work with the Highlander Institute is meeting school communities where they are in terms of blended learning and personalization and moving them forward in a direction that the school community prioritizes and values.

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Identifying a problem and collectively solving it as group seems to be the theme throughout. This idea is timeless. The problems may change but the process of empowering people to come together to find a solution will continue to applicable to any group any time. As we apply this to schools the possibilities are endless.

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It connects to Miles Horton’s dream - A community coming together to identify a common problem and solve it together.

We are all educators coming together to address the common issues our schools face around teaching and learning. As a cohort we are working together, supporting each other, training others, providing tools, and networking to solve the problems within education and make it better for our students.

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"A community coming together to identify a common problem and solve it together" This was the essential work of the original Highlander School and now drives the work done within the Highlander Institute. It's not one person delivering a "cure-all" but rather identifying together what needs to be done and how we can do it together

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Grassroots movements, individual control, the ability to make change happen by providing the tools, motivation and vision to do so.

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Fuse MA with the Highlander Institute best connects to the Highlander Folk School through the modality and means of sharing information. In many ways both are grassroots efforts to spread ideas and influence positive change. Both respect the collection of ideas and sharing those ideas with colleagues

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Highlander was committed to working with people within their own communities to identify local problems and find solutions within their communities.  The Institute mirrors this approach by asking local vision teams to identify best practices and goals for learning and using in-house consultants, educators and administrators to meet that vision.

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The vision statement is personalized to the district based on the district's need. The Highlander Folk school had a mission of teaching their community based on their personal lives (rather than others') and solving a real social problem in their community for the sake of improvement.

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The Highlander School used the design thinking approach to improve education to prepare people for success. I like the social empowerment drive.

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collaboration
equity
real people, real issues
The issues may change but we can work together to make change happen....

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The principals of forward thinking continue to be preserved today encouraging change.

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I think the idea to empower people to make change that was so fundamental to the original Highlander Fold School carries over to the approach the Highlander Fellows will take to go into classrooms and districts and to attempt to trigger changes from within the teachers and the administrators with whom the fellows interact.

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The Institute carries on the Folk School's idea of empowering people to make direct changes to their local environment.

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The idea that the identified goals and the general ideas come from the district, but that best practices and solutions can be developed and enhanced through the collaboration of the fellows is at the heart of the Highlander Folk School. Amazed that I even have a tenuous connection to Rosa Parks, can the Fuse fellows really change the world.

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The idea of empowering people to make change which was so fundamental to the

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What I really like about the origins of the Highlander Institute which are still part of the organizational philosophy today is the focus on "common sense" solutions for "common sense" concerns/problems. Leveraging invested people at the local level to help push for social change, be it in the classroom or outside of it is something that can be incredibly powerful and something I feel proud to be part of!

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Part of the mission of the Highlander Institute is "using innovative educational practices as a catalyst for social change." The Highlander Folk School had a similar mission, to educate for social change, from union organizing to civil rights

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How does the work of Fuse MA through Highlander Institute connect with the work of our namesake, the Highlander Folk School?

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How does the work of Fuse MA through Highlander Institute connect with the work of our namesake, the Highlander Folk School?