Are we missing the moment to reinvent education? Is this the time to totally reinvent education or to shore up the cracks in the current system? “It’s time to do both.” says MichelleCulver from The Reinvention Lab at Teach For America. She believes we need to focus our time, talent, and resources on both fixing the system while simultaneously innovating. In short, she believes we must build the new system alongside the old.

See how Michelle draws inspiration from the engineering achievement of the Oakland Bay Bridge and presents examples of teachers, school leaders, and systems leaders who are reinventing educational experiences right now, even as they work within and alongside the traditional system.

This video was fun to make and a new format for me. The idea was to create a “think piece” in video form, in which we heard from a thought leader about their big idea and saw evidence of how it might change the system of education.