10/21/2009

What this forum is about...

We offer this site as a forum to host ideas from our colleagues, supervisors and students to discuss and dismiss issues confronting the system and emerging from our past.  We offer the following organization of topics:

            1. What’s the purpose of K-12 Schools?

            2. How real is the current atmosphere of crisis?

            3. How do we really measure schools?

            4. How should teachers be selected and trained?

            5. Unions, boards, communities and departments of education- who sets the   agenda?

            6. What are the politics of curriculum?

            7. Where should we put our resources?

            8. How does research become outcomes?

            9. What’s the dialogue of real learning?

            10. Should schools be reorganized?

            11. Does evaluation stimulate progress?

Oct 21, 2009 6:27:24 AM | Education

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Virgil Walker, M.A. and Sharron Walker, Ed.D are a pair of educators who have been teachers and administrators for a combined total of more than 80 years. Although, they spent most of their time in smaller public secondary rural schools in West Africa, California and Arizona, they have worked at all levels of education with a diversity of ethnicities and academic preparation. Mr. Walker is a reading specialist with practical experience in school and district wide programs. Dr. Walker’s is co-author of Principals as Maverick Leaders: Rethinking Democratic Schools and author of Keeping Democracy Alive: Principals and Teachers as Maverick Leaders.

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