It is wonderful to see all of the “geared up” teachers and administrators tweeting and such about the summer professional development opportunities. All of these great folks doing great things to grow and learn more about their craft. It brings to mind a chapter from Porras’s “Success: Built to Last”, A Portfolio of Passions-It’s Not About Balance.
At the beginning of the chapter is a quote from Frederick Beekner, “To find your mission in life is to discover the intersection between your heart’s deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger.” My concern is that the world does not yet know that it is hungry for transformative education and doesn’t know #whatschoolcouldbe. Do @DrTonyWagner and Ted @Dintersmith have enough disciples in influential positions around the country to make this summer’s professional development truly meaningful? Is there enough PD this summer focusing on transforming education or is most of it tinkering around the same topics or only the periphery of #whatschoolcouldbe? It is not the time for tinkering. Tinkering may just get us more of the same “chasing test scores”. We need to take the time and put forth the energy to transform our schools and our classrooms, #forourkidssake. It is time to #unleashtalent. As Michael Dell said, “It’s exciting to see how fast our kids learn and grow. I’m not too worried about them, especially the ones that like to break the rules and don’t follow instructions. Those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what is important to them.” Most of us in these circles know what is important and we are willing to break the rules for the benefit of our students and for education as a whole; is the world hungry enough to help us bring forth real change? Leave a Reply. |
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Experienced Reflective Learner and Strategic Thinker with an ongoing track record of of innovative, adaptive leadership in education and business management. Archives
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