Education Talk Radio

Schools are constantly being asked to improve, innovate, and respond to new challenges. But what happens when the people closest to those challenges don't feel safe admitting that something isn't working?

David Cicero talks with Jal Mehta of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Max Yurkofsky of Radford University, authors of A Chance to Solve Their Own Problems, about what actually happens when schools try to solve problems from within. They explore why trust and psychological safety are essential to meaningful improvement, what leaders can do to protect space for experimentation, and why the technical tools of continuous improvement only work when the human conditions are there too.

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