David Cook

Background

About David Cook

For over 128 years learners in the United States have been living in an education system that focuses on producing widgets. It is designed with the belief that all learners and all communities are the same. In 1894, when the system was created, that was fine. It is not today. We have decades of neuroscience that says we are all unique which means each community is by definition unique. In addition, we have little evidence that our current system and its measures are working. We aren’t improving anything with our current structure. We need a system that lifts up REAL learning focused on real relationships, real equity, and real authentic measures. The world is changing at such a rapid pace. Our education system doesn’t have time to build new pathways, modify curriculums, and close achievement gaps based on standardized tests. We must create truly learning-centered educational opportunities for ALL students without regard to time, space or uniformity of outcomes. We must ready every student for the multitude of different career experiences they will face in an adaptive world that is changing daily. I have made a career of facilitating connections among groups of people that had no prior success solving problems. I have done this in the education, business and non-profit communities with high levels of success and I am respected in all three on a national level.