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Welcome to the new REF Blog, a place where everyone can share ideas on how to enhance the learning experience at Redding.
Kate
Kate
posted by katydid at
11:53 AM
The Redding Education Foundation Mission: The Redding Education Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing and enhancing opportunities to promote educational excellence so that the Redding community may better experience the fulfillment of learning at every age.
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Bravo! REF now has a blog.
Thanks to Robert Moran and Alice Smith, Redding has a blog on learning!
As a self professed idea junkie, this is exciting news. Remember the high of your last ah hah moment? Let this be a place for a new level of fulfillment. Together, we can ponder deeply, inquire, debate with passion. We many not find answers but we will question meaningfully and pursue possibilities with vigor.
First question; why do we humans need to know?
Good question, Kate! I guess that's what differentiates us from other animals!
I have just been creating a blog for RES to use for sharing SmartBoard info and decided to check and fool around with your blog too! Elise
I think seeking and gaining knowledge help to give meaning to our days here.
I was lucky to attend Dr. Richard Elmore’s presentation to JBHS educators this week. His data and observations are cause for deep concern.
In the US, in many cases our focus is on the individual and his/her rights and opportunities. In other countries the focus is on the common good, rights and benefits for the good of all. Dr. Elmore's graphs show one of the distressing effects of these different ideologies.
Decisions we have made about education in the US have contributed to tremendous variability in learning; although this made education an opportunity for some to be better off economically than their parents, it does not serve to raise the standard of learning or living for all in our country. In my lifetime I can see that the class divide has become much greater, and as a wise friend of mine has warned, "comes a revolution."
I see this is as a crisis in our country and hope we have the wisdom and courage to follow Dr. Elmore's guidance to build schools where teachers and learners are focused on bringing all students to their highest learning abilities, raising the achievement of the entire class, not only of some.
I know we have many outstanding teachers at JBHS and I am glad to know that several of them are on the high school redesign team. I have also seen Tom McMorran's leadership of the teams that analyzed the most recent CAPT results to focus on the teaching and learning strategies needed to improve. While I disagree with "teaching to the test," I am persuaded by Dr. Elmore's presentation that we should pursue rigorous, standards-based education for the benefit of all our students.
The real question to me is "Can we overcome our individualistic, opportunistic culture to focus on improving educational achievement for all our students?"
Is our individualistic, opportunistic culture consistent with the idea that we are our brothers' keepers?
What can we, as citizens outside the educational institutions, do to facilitate real, measurable improvements in learning in our schools?
Jeanne
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