Episode Details

Camp is Head of Teaching & Learning at NEIA. He oversees the development of systems to recruit, hire, support, and evaluate teachers and helps teachers develop and implement the curriculum. He's been a leader and a teacher at a variety of schools throughout his 29-year career: boarding, day, single-sex and college.

Show Highlights

• 'Aim to teach what cannot be googled.'

• NIA's unique mashed up of 5 different assessment systems for mastery learning.

• A needed mindset shift to let go of rigid structures and embrace innovative approaches.

• 'X Days' for teaching and learning flexibility with integration across subjects and collaboration.

• Transforming traditional school systems through the power of letting go.

• Unlearning traditional methods among parents, students, and staff

• Strategies for effectively communicating changes and supporting stakeholders through transitions and school policies.

• Avoids siloed learning with 'Spiraling Curriculum.'

• Targeted feedback with single panel rubric feedback feedback

"We have a mindset that we're going to be flexible. We're going to help you achieve the things you want to achieve or pursue the things you want to pursue. And for a lot of students, especially post Covid in this day and age of AI and everything else, that helping a student navigate an academic path that they have some ownership in is really liberating."

-John Camp

"My biggest thing for Ruckus Makers is to make sure you have the courage to change education. We're relying on you to be a Ruckus Maker. We're relying on you. We need you to do that. Otherwise the inertia of the system will steamroll and just keep going. And so, yes, as we've talked about, being a Ruckus Maker is not for everybody, and it's not easy. If you have that feeling inside at all about change, we're relying on you to do it. Get out there and do it. Act outside the box and get it done."

-John Camp

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