Research and Writings
The Network Path to Mastery Learning. (Socol, Moran, 2024) Kappan Magazine Featured Article, October 2024
What Does it Mean to Build a School? Reactions to the AIA 2018 Safe Schools Summit (Socol, 2018) Original Medium Post in Student Voices
Makers of Their Own Learning (Moran, 2014) “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other,” John Kennedy intended to say in Dallas on November 22, 1963."
Radical Change Through the Practice of 'Making': Developing lifelong competencies while engaging learners in their passions (Moran and Socol, 2019)
For professors, segregation begins at home (Emdin, Moran, and Socol 2019)
Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools by Ira Socol, Pam Moran, and Chad Ratliff
Ira Socol
Falling Behind? The Worthlessness of How We Measure Children (Socol, 2021)
You must see your school as a home of opportunity (Socol, 2016)
Writing Monumental Memory (Socol, 2020)
Semi-Charmed Kind of Life (part one): Who kids are…and what kids need from us (Socol, 2019)
Semi-Charmed Kind of Life (part two): Learning how to connect with every child (Socol, 2019)
Semi-Charmed Kind of Life (part three): Whose life is it anyway? (Socol, 2019)
Taking a Closer Look at Grit Narratives (Socol, 2014)
“You can understand it better than reading yourself.” Middle School Students, Informational Texts, and Text-To-Speech (Socol, 2009)
The unhappy place: What libraries can do to welcome kids who struggle with print. (Socol, 2010)
Why is Everyone an Expert on Education? (Lasic, Socol, Thompson, 2009)
Literacy (as) Tyranny (Socol, 2011)
Technology Toolbelt Methodology and Writing Productivity Outcomes In Students with Learning Disabilities (SB Lenzo, 2014)
Recontextualizing the Student: Analysis of the SETT Framework for Assistive Technology in Education (DP Cochrane, 2012)
Pam Moran
The Grittiest Kid I Ever Knew (Moran, 2014)
Becoming Educated: More Questions Than Answers (Moran, 2017)
The Day "Charlottesville" Captured New Meaning (Atkins and Moran, 2017)
Charlottesville is My Community: An Educator's Thoughts (Moran, 2017)
When Controversy Hits Your Community (Moran and Socol, 2017)
The Class of 2018, Gen Z (Moran, 2018)
Whatever Happened to New Math Anyway? (Moran, 2018)
Habitable Worlds of Learning (Moran, 2018)
Finding a Way to Yes: Lessons from a School Superintendent (Vander Ark, 2018)
Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
by Ira Socol, Pam Moran, and Chad Ratliff
The Drool Room
by Ira Socol
Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk
by Ira Socol, Cheryl Walchack Harris, J. Michael Thornton II