Ida Rose Florez
Terra Rossa Learning
Are you feeling limited by conventional approaches to teaching and learning? Terra Rossa Learning offers a fresh, regenerative perspective designed to move education forward. Led by Ida Rose Florez, this initiative invites educators, leaders, and lifelong learners to rethink, reimagine, and transform their approach.
Ida Rose’s Publications
“Ida Rose Florez grabs and keeps your attention with provocative, critical questions and challenges you to consider and change your perspective and beliefs about education. The end result is a shared vision of sustained and lifelong learning that benefits not only our children but also our communities and world.” ~ Allison Titcomb, PhD, Chief Impact Officer & Senior Vice President, Community Development, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona
A Whole New Way of Thinking
Remember third grade? Or seventh? Maybe first grade? You were different at each of those ages, right? But all those grades were remarkably similar in one critical way: there focus on the Rules of the Drill. The Rules or the Drill are how complicated, mechanistic thinking shows up in schools every hour, every day, and every year. You were likely immersed in them year after year after year. So were the people in your community. So were the teachers in your local schools.
The Rules of the Drill have never adequately served the needs of learners, and they have always been inhumane, yet they remain the thinking framework of nearly every school in the western world. It’s time for our schools to adopt a whole new way of thinking.
Through practical examples and compelling stories, Ida Rose invites audiences to ditch The Rules of the Drill and reimagine schools based on a whole new complex way of thinking.
Attendees will learn how to:
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Differentiate between complicated and complexity thinking and learn why seeing the difference matters. -
Recognize the Rules of the Drill in action and replace them with Regenerative Rules.
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Create human-centered complex learning experiences for any age in any setting.
A Whole New Way of Living
What are schools for? Ask policymakers or education leaders and many, if not most, will tell you they are to prepare students for the “workforce pipeline.” We hear this so often it’s easy to forget it’s a very new idea. Over the long arc of human history the purpose of “educating” young people has been to prepare them for life, not merely a job.
So why are contemporary schools so focused on work? Because Western education was designed to create a working class of people, educated just enough to make industrialized capitalism work.
In this presentation Ida Rose helps audiences explore a whole new regenerative way of living based on the regenerative values of reverence, reciprocity, and mutual thriving.
Attendees will learn how to:
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Craft learning experiences and schools grounded in Regenerative Values.
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Create a lifestyle aligned with Regenerative Values in their personal and professional lives.
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Apply Regenerative Values to life and learning.
A Whole New Way of Doing School
How would schools be different if their explicit purpose was to prepare learners for life and not merely for work? This presentation builds on, or as a stand-alone incorporates, the ideas from the first two presentations to help community leaders, parents, advocates, and educators design and implement regenerative schools. This presentation also works well as a launch to a longer term consulting engagement with Ida Rose.
Attendees will learn how to:
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Adopt teaching practices that embrace learning as a complex phenomenon.
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Design schools grounded in Regenerative Values and Simple Rules.
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Make decisions under conditions of high complexity.
Contact Ida Rose here to arrange a free 30-minute conversation about booking one or more signature keynotes or workshops.
Examples of Additional Keynote or Workshop Topics
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Learning as a Complex Process: What that Means for School Reform
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The Myth of School Readiness: What We’re Getting Wrong about Early Learning
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Why School Reforms Fail: What Should We Do Instead?
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Education as Mother System: Why it Matters.
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The Truth about Educational Assessment: What Should We Do Instead?
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Beyond Separating, Sorting, and Sequencing: How to Shift From Industrial Schooling