The Human Side of Changing Education: Engage the Mission and Passion of Educators

<p>Dr. Bob Maxfield welcomed Julie (Wilson) Jungalwala, author of <i>The Human Side of Changing Education </i>and Director of the Institute for the Future of Learning, to the Podcast for Leaderful Schools, as part of the series on resetting education after the pandemic. Guests are asked to reflect on what we ought to be doing differently in education as we emerge from the pandemic. Dr. Maxfield’s regular co-host, Dr. Suzanne Klein, was unable to join him for today’s conversation, and in her place Dr. Elaine Middlekauff joined as acting co-host.</p><p>Julie (Wilson) Jungalwala grew up in North Ireland and first came to the United States in 1997, for a six month project in San Francisco. After about a decade of working in adult development, leadership and management development, she “recognized a recurring theme that much of what she taught people in those programs, as well as in coaching sessions was essentially to unlearn what they’ve learned through a standardized system of education.” That revelation prompted her to create the Institute for the Future of Learning as a non-profit; with a mission to help transform the one size doesn’t fit all model of education. While studying for her master’s in Education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Ms. Wilson Jungalwala recalled the impact of Dr. Eleanor Duckworth’s “Having of Wonderful Ideas” class.  Professor Duckworth studied directly with Piaget, enabling Ms. Julie (Wilson) Jungalwala to experience what inquiry-based learning actually is from a learner’s perspective.</p><p>Currently the majority of her work is writing about the topic, coaching leaders, keynote presentations, workshops and conducting research. She credits the research she did for Arthur Levine of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation with the genesis for her book, <i>The Human Side of Changing Education</i>.  “When we're asking schools to change, we're asking people to change. If we're not focusing on the adults we're never going to see the outcomes that we're looking for with the students. When you'r