Join me Wednesay, October 17th, for a one-hour live and interactive
FutureofEducation.com interview with Kirsten Olson, author of
Wounded By School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up To Old School Culture. Kirsten is a leading writer in the U.S. describing education from a student's point of view.
Wounded By School was a top-selling book at Teachers College Press last year, and was nominated for Book of the Year by Foreword. Reviewers have called the book “brilliant, insightful, unsparing, hopeful.”
Kirsten is a founding board member of
IDEA, Institute for Democratic Education in America, an emerging national not-for-profit linking youth and Progressive educational activists for educational transformation through community organizing and showcasing what is best in education. A leadership coach and organizational consultant at
Old Sow Consulting, Kirsten currently works with school teams and individual school leaders nationally who are attempting to do transformational work in education, and create new conceptions of powerful learning and meaningful school communities. An experiential retreat leader with two-year facilitator training with Parker Palmer at the Center for Courage and Renewal, she frequently leads week-long residential and one-day
retreats on mindfulness for leaders, self-compassion, and "permissioning" in leadership and social action.
Kirsten holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and is a recent graduate of the Georgetown Center for Transformational Leadership. She lives in Brookline, MA where her four children attended public school.
lovely dear.
