Theme: Education Innovation

Our school classrooms and learning environments have changed dramatically since many of us were in classrooms with chalk dust, chairs in rows, and problems solved on overhead projectors.

What are some of the most significant ways our classroom environments and ways of learning have changed over the years? What are some of the changes we see in the coming decades.

The December TEDxGreenvilleSalon looks at these issues through the voices of two advocates and experts on what is next for learning.

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Ansel Sanders

Associate Director | Public Education Partners

Before coming to Public Education Partners, through the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Sanders helped develop and launch an innovative school – the A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, the first elementary school in South Carolina with a school-wide engineering curriculum. The overwhelming attention — people camped out to enroll — in the school only furthered Sanders’ curiosity over how to scale schools and build systems that meet the needs of a whole child and leverage community assets to do so. That question had followed him through his education career, which began as a middle school English Language Arts teacher in Baltimore under Teach For America to his time as an assistant principal in a Greenville middle school.

Zach Eikenberry

Founding CEO | NEXT High School

Beginning with a lawn care business he started when he was 15 years old, Eikenberry has started more than 10 businesses. He is also spearheading the creation of NEXT High School, a public charter school that opened in 2014 that uses a project-based curriculum preparing students for life after school.