Guest Post from Engaging Educators Ben Curran and Neil Wetherbee
What if Education Secretary Arne Duncan likened schools to “Ground Zero” where you worked? Depressing right? We (Ben Curran and Neil Wetherbee) work in that place. Thankfully, in Detroit, Michigan district reorganization efforts are underway, but we wonder if the glacial pace of educational reform will be swift enough to rescue Detroit’s children? We are hopeful. But without a complete overhaul of the way we help kids learn and a commitment to technology integration, objectives which haven’t been mentioned at all by Detroit school administrators, we fear it may not happen. For this reason we believe there has to be more we can do to prepare our students for success.
When I met The Innovative Educator after her ISTE presentation this summer and discussed some of the work we were doing, she invited me to share it with readers here who she believed would enjoy learning about the promising practices we were implementing in a struggling school district. Luckily, we work in a charter school district that’s prospering; one that’s doing things right. Our students are still held to the same state standards and must pass the same state tests, however, we are empowered by our school’s leaders to explore new ways of helping our students learn. We do this in many ways. Here are some of them.
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