Julie Jungalwala is the Co-founder and President of the Academic Leadership Group. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for the Future of Learning as well as a leadership instructor in Harvard Extension School’s Essential Management Skills for Emerging Leaders professional development program. She is the author of The Human Side of Changing Education. Julie has a Master’s degree in Education, Technology, and Innovation and Education from Harvard University Graduate School of Education as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Queen’s University Belfast.

Julie joins me today to discuss the three truths of education, which expose the actual goals of the educational system, what it should be aiming for, and where its weaknesses are. She discusses the need for schools to release control and compliance, helping children be more self-authoring and curious. Julie explores cultural bias and examples of the educational system not leveraging what we know about how humans learn and grow. Julie also reveals five critical decisions and questions for educators and leaders that intersect with the three truths.

“With how events have unfolded in the last eighteen months, we really need to make some fundamental changes reflected by these three truths, and our future depends on it.” - Julie Jungalwala

This week on Insert:Human

●      Defining the three truths of education

●      Why schools are an institute of knowing and not an institute of learning

●      How schools need to reorient themselves to help kids be more autonomous

●      Enabling human beings to change, learn, and grow continually for the rest of their lives

●      How cultural bias affects the educational system

●      How the educational system doesn’t leverage what we know about how human beings learn and grow

●      How experimentation, feedback, and the chance to try again are fundamental to success

●      Five critical decisions and questions for any system of education

Resources Mentioned:

●      Podcast: The Reinvention Mandate with Julie Jungalwala

●      Book: Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten

Connect with Julie Jungalwala:

●      Academic Leadership Group

●      Institute for the Future of Learning

●      Reinvention Mandate

●      Book: The Human Side of Changing Education: How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage

●      Julie Jungalwala on LinkedIn

●      Julie Jungalwala on Twitter

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