Transformative Principal · Jethro Jones
Designing Different with Adrian Ireland
November 9, 2025·54 min·5 clips
Adrian Ireland says education has an architecture problem, not an effort problem - like people swimming hard in a river flowing the wrong direction.
As heard by us
A systems-level school-design discussion about grades, motivation, behavior, and how to judge AI tools with outside validation.
The segment treats school change as a systems question: grades, motivation, and behavior are intertwined, so removing one lever without replacing it can fall flat.
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You want a school-design conversation that stays tied to classroom reality.
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