Matt Barnes - The Education Game

<p>Matt Barnes is the &nbsp;Co-Founder and Parent Coach at The Education Game. Over 25 years, he has led hospital departments, distributed $500m in philanthropy, run an education reform nonprofit, served on nine educational boards from university to pre-K, and now coaches parents on navigating the education system. His aim is to help every parent grow kids who are curious, competent, life-long learners.</p> <p>Matt did quit his job to become a stay-at-home father. After three years as a full-time-dad, he had a new appreciation of the traditional role of mothers and also understood the pressures behind the women’s liberation movement -- as he often wanted to burn his “manzier.”</p> <p>It was in 2014, when Matt launched The Educational Makeover, a learning lab that studied parent decision-making, mindsets, and capacities. Then he launched “The Education Game” in 2020, &nbsp;a speaking, coaching, blogging, and podcast platform that inspires parents to embrace a 21st-century learning model that shamelessly deemphasizes grades and academic compliance while radically emphasizing learning, problem solving, and student-engagement</p> <p>He served as Houston’s representative on a national research initiative exploring the challenges facing Boys and Young Men of Color which later became President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative.</p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p> <p>00:30 What is Education Game?</p> <p>02:26 Actionable Advice to a Frustrated Parent</p> <p>16:21 What’s your Origin Story?</p> <p>23:20 What about College?</p> <p>47:34 Baby Steps to Starting in Alternative School</p> <p>58:55 Screen Time during COVID</p> <p>01:07:13 Metaphor Comparing Conventional School to Alternative</p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <p>“Learning happens all the time. You can't stop your child from learning.”</p> <p>“Standardization doesn't fly in the 21st century.”</p> <p>“Starting a business teaches you so much.”</p> <p>“The people that were hardest to manage were the people who were just average.”</p> <p>“Once your chil