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Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, lifelong educator, academic, policy maker, and author, hails from Finland and has been a driving force in educational reform in his home country and throughout the world. He is currently living in Melbourne, Australia and working for Southern Cross University. Dr. Sahlbery has worked in countries around the world helping to support universities in revamping their education programs in an effort to create highly effective educators that can go into public education and raise up the next generation. In our interview with Dr. Sahlberg, we talk about WHY teachers in the US have lost influence and power. Why has this NOT happened in Finland? With negative, disruptive behaviors on the rise in classrooms across America, how do we find the underlying causes and correct those? Becoming a teacher/educator in Finland is one of the top 3 c ... ... Read moreKeywords
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