Comments on: #EdReform is NOT that Difficult https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/edreform-not-difficult/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Blue Cereal https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/edreform-not-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:49:40 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/edreform-not-difficult/#comment-20 In reply to Scott.

Things No One Is Doing

Yes yes yes – one of the most deflating things for me about #edreform in the past few years is that the potential of charters and non-traditional formats has been completely undercut. New models, new approaches, little edu-speriments taking place all across the state or nation trying different things with different groups of students until we start to see patterns (not A pattern, but several or many) which could be replicated – not by mandate, but as deemed appropriate by those doing the educating.

But somehow charters and virtual and vouchers and choice and variety all became different words for “standardize dehumanize corporatize.”  There are some schoools and teachers doing great things, but generally the entire edu-sphere now has such an abhorrance of all things charter or choice that  even the underlying intent or purpose is anathema – one does not speak of these things.

We’ve been forced into a position of defending a system most of us aren’t even that happy with to prevent The Big Worse Things from trampling our kids and ourselves.

“To reach kids no one is reaching…do things no one is doing.”  I couldn’t agree more.

]]> By: Scott https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/edreform-not-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:16:44 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/edreform-not-difficult/#comment-19 yes
So – what about totally wrecking the timing of the entire system?? Outdated right? What IF we open up school at 7 am and close it at 8 pm. Let students and teachers select schedules what will work with them and the demands on them outside of the school day. What IF we shortened the summer so that we had less remediation during the fall. What IF we just got away from the stuff we have been doing for the last 75 years and embrace all of the resources around us. What IF – to reach kids no one is reaching, we do things no one is doing??

]]> By: Andrea Gaines https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/edreform-not-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:49:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/edreform-not-difficult/#comment-18 “One advantage to forcing
“One advantage to forcing every student in a given state to endure the same outdated, tedious, pointless curriculum is that no one school or any one teacher can be all THAT interesting or successful; there’s a certain ‘unity of mediocrity’. Removing the rusty anchor of ‘standardization’ allows some classrooms to be amazing, meaning others are less so by comparison.”
This is both amazingly exciting and intimidating at the same time. It’s also freeing to the point of being scary. Not that scary is bad, just you know, scary. I have re-read this post several times. I especially come back to the ‘unity in mediocrity’ so much application…Besides your #11FF, I hope the “others” read it too.

]]> By: Claudia Swisher https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/edreform-not-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:47:58 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/edreform-not-difficult/#comment-17 I’m In!
#4 and #5 are my favorites. As a teacher of an elective, I saw how very valuable they are to kids’ hearts and minds. And lives. We stifle learners (and teachers) when there is no choice.

I’m in!

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