Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Schools with Don Wettrick

Our guest for this episode of College & Career Readiness Radio is Don Wettrick.

Don starts the show by giving credit to Dan Pink, who was one of the pioneers of the motivation movement–exploring what motivates people to learn new things.

He explains the 20% theory in terms of giving students time to work on things that they care about that might not necessarily be aligned to a school-based unit of study.

Don’t miss what he says about school getting in the way of learning and the difference between how C and D students respond to freedom versus A and B students.

Don says that the freedom to learn whatever you want isn’t just a personal project. It comes with learning new skills and presenting to an audience b ...