Anne Olderog - Cultivating Children's Unique Creative Minds

<p>For this episode, our host, Shannon Falkenstein, speaks with Anne Olderog, an Acton Founder who has an impressive wealth of knowledge on education. She is also a Partner at Vivaldi, leading projects on growth/innovation strategy, positioning and brand architecture. She works with education companies such as Blackboard or McGraw-Hill to ensure that today and tomorrow’s learners get the very best that education can offer.</p> <p>Anne holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, an M.A. in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an M.Phil in Management from Cambridge University. She is a Laureate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) in Paris, where she earned a B.A. in Economics &amp; Finance. Prior to her business career, Anne received a B.A. in French Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and researched policy issues for the French Parliament. She is fluent in 6 languages and consulted major corporations in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Italy.</p> <p>In her (scarce) free time, she enjoys blogging on changes in education, engaging in virtual bike races, training her dogs and losing to her son in ping pong.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p> <p>2:56 - Anne shares her story on how she started a school for her daughter</p> <p>15:17 &nbsp;- On encouraging learning</p> <p>17:44 - &nbsp;Teaching Compliance VS Self-Sufficiency</p> <p>19:11 - &nbsp;Education can be a game</p> <p>22:44 - Cultivating Children’s unique creative minds and equipping them to be the leaders of tomorrow</p> <p>24:42 - &nbsp;Anne’s advice to parents</p> <p>28:25 - &nbsp;What Acton Academy Verona is like</p> <p>39:11 - &nbsp;Dealing with Covid</p> <p>48:59 - &nbsp;Being Vulnerable in front of our children and role model how to deal with challenges, how we can take risks and how we can learn from our mistakes</p> <p>53:45 - &nbsp;Anne’s thoughts about college</p> <p>56:32 - A metaphor that can help parents understand the microschool movement and the big