Excited for tomorrow

Tomorrow (today but without sleep), Justin and I present our ideas for an embedded curriculum of thinking and literacy. We are excited. It's our chance to take our ideas and share them with like (and dislike) minds.

To get feedback and critique.

What has been nice is that so much of what we have heard this weekend has confirmed our direction.

Will Richardson spoke about the difference between how our kids live with technology and how we expect them to learn with technology. This cannot and should not be different.

Jamie McKenzie showed us that the focus of good teaching and learning should be on the thinking process and the synthesis of information and the creation of original thought. Not on the subject matter.

Alan November spoke of our need to LET GO of our core values and understand that the needs of our students should shape how we teach and what education looks like. And if we don't do this, it's a disservice and schools will have outlived their usefulness.

And finally, on Friday, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson reminded me that whether to teach responsible use for both the safety of self and the safety of others is not a choice of teacher, but rather an obligation. It is too important. It needs to be in our curriculum and it needs to be "the way we do business" at all grades and all the time.

And this has been affirming. Because this is what our curriculum speaks to.

But we need help.

We'd like feedback.

We want to know what you think.

If you're interested, see you Session 8...C-228.