If You Don’t Know - It’s Time To Find Out!
September 30th, 2007
Did You Know 2.0 is the follow-up version of the Original Did You Know: Shift Happens Video.
After watching you might want to go visit the ShiftHappens Wiki
If you are involved with your local schools, great. Let this help you with deeper discussions and dialogs on how to educate our youth. If you aren’t involved with educating others them please reach out and find a way to elevate the education of our youth. If you are not sure where to start, just ask a school teacher, principle or parent or post a comment here.
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October 2nd, 2007 at 8:24 pm
We used a remix version of the original to start off our staffdev last year at Byrd. It’s up at TeacherTube. It’s a lot shorter than the Fisch video as I only had a few minutes to introduce the idea and move through some lessons.
The current parent training for middle school echoes a lot of these ideas as well. I think Henrico is on the right road. It’ll be interesting to see if the community rallies behind these ideas and concepts.
One of the main goals this year is to increase community support and good will. I think the future of the initiative will depend on how well that goes, especially at the middle school level.
Tom
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 am
Tom,
My kids are in elementary and high school in Henrico this year. Therefore, I haven’t witnessed the middle school initiative’s yet. From what I can tell, it seems like the county is headed in the right direction and has some fairly strong schools and a smattering of schools that need significant improvement.
It will in interesting to see how the parents respond. I hope and pray that we don’t see special interest groups pull the county in wrong directions.
My gut tells me that school districts that get this “shift happens” concept are already aggressive in modernizing their schools and those that don’t, aren’t. So the worry is, how do we more uniformly elevate multiple school districts and educate the parents at the same time?
Case in point, the battles between Richmond city hall and the school board can’t be benefiting the students. We have to get school boards and the administrations that support them (city council, major, school administrators, parent groups, etc.) all working toward one goal. To prepare our youth for the 21st century.
I’ll be posting a new blog entry later today or tomorrow about the Bill Gates Foundation studies and the Center for Educational Accountability initiatives and how Henrico County is responding to those initiatives.