Following up on the previous post by Matt, a few thoughts:
One thing that we know is important when it comes to making Power2Achieve “real” for schools is having a vision of how P2A Tools can be incorporated into existing teaching & learning practices in order to strengthen the impact of the content area educational experience (in other words: in the classroom).
I think paragraph 5 from Matt’s previous post (“With the paradigm shift…”) describes exactly what we’re doing with Power2Achieve and matches up what I have seen and heard over the last few months while traveling all across the country to introduce P2A to educational stakeholders including students, teachers, administrators, policy makers, parents, business leaders, etc.
I just posted the following on our Facebook page (facebook.com/excellenceandethics), click the Twitter link below to see the picture:
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Click the link to check out a pic of an awesome content-area application of a Power2Achieve Tool by teacher Susan Reeve of Bishop Grimes High School in East Syracuse, NY. The entire faculty at Bishop Grimes received a Power2Achieve Toolkit training through a grant from the Central NY Community Foundation that was written by Rich Parisi, John Cataldo, and Lucia Cataldo of IEE in partnership with leaders from 3 schools in Syracuse! Great work everyone! Keep up the great work of creating the intentional culture of excellence & ethics needed for teaching & learning Susan!
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http://twitter.com/#!/kbakerIEE/status/29020285777
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(And yes, I just informally broke the news that IEE is now using Facebook and Twitter in order to continue our work of building an interactive world-wide network of educators. A post on exactly how we’re using online communication channels to move toward that goal is coming soon!)
