Living On The Edge of Chaos 158: Finding Solace In Creating Change With Pernille Ripp
In this episode, I speak with Pernille Ripp.
Pernille Ripp is an expert in literacy and technology integration and dedicates her research and practice to developing engaged and empowered students and communities.
She is a teacher, speaker, author, blogger, and passionate advocate for education. She is the recipient of the 2015 WEMTA Making IT Happen Award; and the 2015 ISTE Award for Innovation in Global Collaboration.
In 2010, Pernille founded The Global Read Aloud, a global literacy initiative that began with a simple goal in mind: one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to connect millions of students in around the world.
She is the author of Passionate Readers -The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child and Passionate Learners – How to Engage and Empower Your Students, now in its second edition, and Empowered Schools, Empowered Students, both focusing on creating learning spaces and communities where students thrive and all stakeholders are empowered and passionate about learning. She has also authored Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration published in 2016 by Solution Tree. Her work has also been featured in many print and online journals including Edutopia, The New York Times, School Library Journal, The Guardian, and MiddleWeb.
You can follow Pernille’s work on Blogging Through The Fourth Dimension, her personal blog and a frequent Teach100 top-rated education blog.
Pernille’s current research interest is in creating passionate literacy environments within the restriction of our current educational systems to helping students fall in love with literacy again. She uses her own classroom as a laboratory, as well as learns from the many educators she works with across the world.
Pernille is now also part of The Author Village, a collective of forward-thinking children’s book authors and educators available for school and library visits, conferences, festivals, panels, and professional development opportunities. To see her page there, please go here.
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TOPICS WE EXPLORE
- Who is Pernille Ripp? And what does she have going on?
- What are some AHA moments in the transition to living back in Denmark after being the US for a long time?
- What are differences in education between US and Denmark?
- What are similarities in education between US and Denmark?
- Why are we going backwards since COVID?
- Power of moderation, not thinking in extremes told through lens of the recent reading wars
- Third edition of her book, Passionate Learners, is about how do we let go in a system that teaches us that control is the best way to manage?
- Dealing with our own control demons
- Power of trust
- How do you start off the year co-creating community with students?
- How is power at the core of classroom about power and positional control?
- And how you do you this in the daily class, not just a one activity lesson
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