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Children are naturally curious – how to keep their curiosity alive?
In the photo: two children who love Deep. Our next goal: 20 children who love it, then 100, then 1000. Let’s go! One child at a time. As a parent of two children who go to primary school, I am worried about a few things: my kids’ addiction to screens, their natural curiosity slowly fading,… Continue reading
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Celebrating 20 years of Noored Kooli
What a beautiful weekend it was celebrating 20 years of Noored Kooli / Teach For Estonia! This whole journey started with a slightly random meeting with Jerry Hauser, the former COO of Teach For America, in Washington in February 2006. (Here is a blog post, in Estonian, I published later that day.) Jerry heard about… Continue reading
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Join Us In Building Deep
Have you felt something like this? At school, you see no point in putting in the effort when tasks that are boring or too easy. Yes, boredom is part of life and it affects everyone. But chronic boredom — having to spend hours every day doing tasks that you could do two or three years… Continue reading
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Looking for co-founders to build a new AI-powered learning platform for gifted children
What is the most upvoted thread in the gifted community on Reddit? Gifted children have unique needs that are often misunderstood and unmet. They need real intellectual challenge – without it, they feel they are forced to do the most boring job, Monday to Friday, for many years. They are sensitive and emotionally intense –… Continue reading
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Instructional coaching – why it matters and how to make it matter
Imagine a nine-year-old child sitting in a classroom, in almost any country in the world. How well she does at school – how well she is taught – matters. Effective teaching not only affects what she achieves at school (Slater et al., 2012), it also has far-reaching consequences. It increases her chances of attending a… Continue reading
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Reimagining our schools?
Recent PISA results raise the question: do all children have the opportunity to attain a good education in Estonia? If our academic results are already strong in international comparison, is there any need to change? “We may have the best results in the world, but we need to keep improving quickly. China now has three… Continue reading
