Not trying to dictate what you write by any stretch, but I think you are so on to various needed topics and issues with how you ended this piece:
"...the Fred Rogers law of looking for helpers during bad times is as true as ever. I hope the good people are still asking good questions that promise to improve us.
Questions like, “what do students think will improve education?”
How can families and schools have a shared understanding of what a good quality education looks like?
What can we do to replace unproductive school practices with a forward-looking vision?
How will we empower educators to embrace new technologies “to ensure students have access to individualized, engaging, and future-forward learning experiences”?
How do we boost learning for students who need more help without holding back advanced students?
What does research tell us about strengthening science education, math, reading, and civics for all students?
While quick-fix artists and partisan zealots want us to engage in all the most divisive and counterproductive questions, we should focus intently on educators, researchers, and supporters who ask good questions to build us up rather than tear us down."
It all boils down to a question I have heard you ask over and over that leaders, communities, states, and this nation should be asking: How are the children? I'm not trying to simplify something that is huge, but it does all have to do with, as Dr. Fuller says, our most precious resource, our children. If we can't answer that they are thriving, not sure what it is we are doing.
Thank you, Darren. How are the children really is the ultimate question. We can wallow in the politics of education so long before we derelict for not producing solutions. I just happy there are so many helpers trying to make that happen.
Not trying to dictate what you write by any stretch, but I think you are so on to various needed topics and issues with how you ended this piece:
"...the Fred Rogers law of looking for helpers during bad times is as true as ever. I hope the good people are still asking good questions that promise to improve us.
Questions like, “what do students think will improve education?”
How can families and schools have a shared understanding of what a good quality education looks like?
What can we do to replace unproductive school practices with a forward-looking vision?
How will we empower educators to embrace new technologies “to ensure students have access to individualized, engaging, and future-forward learning experiences”?
How do we boost learning for students who need more help without holding back advanced students?
What does research tell us about strengthening science education, math, reading, and civics for all students?
While quick-fix artists and partisan zealots want us to engage in all the most divisive and counterproductive questions, we should focus intently on educators, researchers, and supporters who ask good questions to build us up rather than tear us down."
It all boils down to a question I have heard you ask over and over that leaders, communities, states, and this nation should be asking: How are the children? I'm not trying to simplify something that is huge, but it does all have to do with, as Dr. Fuller says, our most precious resource, our children. If we can't answer that they are thriving, not sure what it is we are doing.
Thank you, Darren. How are the children really is the ultimate question. We can wallow in the politics of education so long before we derelict for not producing solutions. I just happy there are so many helpers trying to make that happen.