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The episode discusses the deeper issues in education related to disconnection among students, families, and educators with insights from Jacob Adams.

What happens when the biggest problems in education—chronic absenteeism, failing grades, teacher burnout, and families leaving schools—aren't actually the core issues at all? In this episode of Teach Me, Teacher, I sit down with Jacob Adams, founder and executive director of Inner Spark Learning Lab , to explore what he calls the Disconnection Crisis in education. Check out their Inside Out Summit. March 19- 9:00-1:00 PT . Free virtual conference for folks who want to transform education from the inside out. For years, schools have chased outcomes—attendance rates, test scores, graduation numbers—while layering on interventions meant to fix them. But what if those outcomes are only symptoms of something deeper? Jacob argues that underneath many of the challenges educators face today is a growing sense of disconnection between students, families, educators, and the institutions meant to serve them. Drawing from nearly a decade of work with more than 40,000 Black and Brown young people in South Central and East Los Angeles, Jacob shares how his organization has focused not on scaling fast, but on going deep—rethinking learning environments from inside existing schools. The work…

People in this episode

Host: Teach Me, Teacher

Guest: Jacob Adams

Topics covered

• disconnection crisis
• education reform
• student engagement
• teacher burnout
• chronic absenteeism

Keywords

• education
• disconnection
• student outcomes
• teacher burnout
• absenteeism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inner Spark Learning Lab

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