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Unleashing the Hero Within

If kids are going to reach the rigor levels being demanded of them in an “Innovation Economy” (or even just to pass state tests), we can no longer drag them along the road of compliance. Kids have to start taking ownership of their learning journey. They have to care. They have to try. They have to learn how to be resilient enough to get up and try again when they’ve been knocked in the dirt. We can’t do it for them, nor would we want to. We can’t steal the struggle from them. But, why would they even care enough try, especially if they have failed in the past.

 The Hero Maker Framework is a 7-step process that transforms the way we approach teaching and learning. It’s a call to teachers to adopt a new fundamental purpose for teachers, making them instruments of hope who empower each of their students to become the hero in their own learning journey.  Those who come to understand the framework will step into their potential as a change agent and feel a greater sense of fulfillment as they align themselves with their true calling as a teacher. Kids will learn more, at deeper levels because they will actually be trying to learn at deeper levels. They will discover through experience that their potential is only capped by their willingness to give genuine effort. By accepting the new calling, they will change the course of many of their students’ lives.

Kids are disengaged, disenfranchised and generally apathetic about their school experience. Student anxiety is on the rise. Absenteeism is too. Many view school as a 12 year act of compliance that they must endure before getting out into the “real” world. Some kids simply don’t try. They’d rather look “bad” than risk looking “dumb.” They are solidly fixed in their mindset. The Hero Maker Framework breathes new life into our purpose in education.