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what might you be doing?
Replied Feb. 10, 2008
what might you be doing?
Replied Feb. 6, 2008
article on Asperger's Syndrome in New Yorker
Replied Dec. 23, 2007
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- As the Director of On-Site Services for a charter school in EastCentral Kansas, I very much enjoy the rigors of my job and career. I help to be a change agent for the way people look at the field of education and for the way students experience education.
I like to find things that can (and should) be done better, talk about how to make that change, and then prove that the change is not only effective, but do-able for a dedicated educator in a mulit-age, multi-ability setting that encourages choices for children.
It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it!
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My two students are taking their presidency of artsnacks very seriously. If you have some advice for them, just let me know. I told them to try to get really familiar with the site, seeing what's available, what the tone is, and after that to try to develop some ideas that promote Kevin's ideals, and their ideals, that are in accord with the mission.
What is your involvement with artsnacks? Are you a developer, a co-participant, an administrator, a guide? Where do the kids come from who are in the site--well, now they're coming from everywhere, but what was the original group primarily made from?
I talked to a couple of kids about your idea again, the one about fitness training and awareness. They really like the idea. Now for that project, what audience did you have in mind? What group of students do you have online? Is it the same bunch as the artsnacks group? (Sorry, I'm just not quite oriented yet.)
And the main thing I have to say is that any students who get to have contact with you and Kevin are enriched beyond most people's dreams.
I, too, am a supporter of multi-age interactions. I'm the only one at school who's been able to hold onto having a mixed grade, when that's the way the whole school started out. Sure hope we can get back to having more mixed-aged groupings in upcoming years, in a wide variety of settings. (I like to have old people involved, too--)
Let's do find the most important things to change, and go about finding ways to change them. Should we start a reference list of our most important and influential books and people and start discussions about them? Should we post examples of where we see positive examples of change brilliantly working out, sometimes against all odds?
Yeah, choices for children...and for teachers, too! Let's get our heads around this.
Thanks so much for joining, Ginger. You have so many important ideas to contribute!