In addition to The Four Pivots, he has written the books Black in School, Hope and Healing in Urban Education and Black Youth Rising. Ginwright served as Chairman of the Board for The California Endowment. He is the Founder and CEO of Flourish Agenda, Inc., a national nonprofit consulting firm which designs strategies for healing and engaging youth of color and adult allies in their schools and communities. He is a Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and Senior Research Associate at San Francisco State University. In school settings, this means that teachers have to be well enough and self-aware enough themselves to foster the well-being and thriving of the young people they are educating. That means grappling with trauma, harm and inequality as a critical step toward healing, well-being and ultimately flourishing. He encourages readers to consider the transformative power of reflection, of considering not only what we do but who we want to be as individuals. Ginwright provides what he describes as a “roadmap” for people to embody the change they want to see in society. He is the author of two best-selling books, “Dark Horse” and “The End of Average”.įor more information, go to his new book, The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves, Dr. Previously, Rose was a professor at Harvard, where he founded the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality and served as the director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program. More on Todd Rose: He is co-Founder and President of Populace, a think tank that blends thought leadership and original research with public engagement and grassroots advocacy. In today’s conversation, Todd develops this idea further through his exploration of the mismatch between what individuals want and their primal need to align themselves with what they think the groups they are part of desire. So why does our education system largely continue on its existing path rather than finding new ways to harness each person’s unique talents by personalizing learning? And comparing individuals to averages is wholly misleading. education system was designed with an assumption that talent existed on a bell curve and that there was one standardized way to develop it. Three years ago, we talked with him about the idea that the U.S. Todd was our very first guest on this podcast.

“The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society.” That’s what Todd Rose writes in his new book, “Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions.”

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