Lake Shore Schools Host ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ Screening

ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI — Lake Shore Public Schools will host a public showing of the critically film “Most Likely to Succeed” at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, in the Lake Shore High School Auditorium.

The film offers insight into the need to change the public school model, and some ideas on how to achieve change, according to the school district’s website.

The film is based on “Most Likely to Succeed,” a book by the same name by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith, two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, delivers an urgent call for the radical re-imaging of American education to better equip them for the 21st century economy.

Most Likely to Succeed is the first national campaign to inspire and empower communities across the country to revolutionize their schools for the 21st Century. The movement is based on the premise that students are shortchanged by a one-size-fits-all model of standardized tests and the so-called Prussian method of education that divides each subject — reading, math, social studies and science — into separate units of instruction.

Instead, Wagner and Dintersmith argue, each school should create its own learning environment by leveraging the passions, expertise and aspirations of its community.

“If nothing else,” the school district said, “it will give us an opportunity to have some thoughtful discussion on the direction our schools are headed to best prepare our students for their future.”

The film, which earned critical acclaim at the Sundance, Tribeca and more than a dozen other film festivals, follows ninth graders at San Diego’s Tech High.
Watch the trailer below.

Image and video via Most Likely to Succeed website