Dear all, I skimmed through another book, ' Building a Learning Culture in America' by Kevin P. Chavous and wish to share what I've highlighted ka.
- The politics of education has been the single biggest barrier to substantive change in education. Leadership does matter. ...one of the best ways to get the politics out of education is for our political leaders to show leadership in doing so.....not to debate education issues, but rather agree to sit down together in a bipartisan way to build a unified policy.
- With each passing year, we were continuing to lose children because of the bureaucracies' internal resistance to change.
- .....the power of learning is an individual undertaking that doesn't have to be dictated by a system or group-think. Our children's education doesn't just belong to educators.
- ....where there is greater transparency for parents, there is a greater likelihood that the local school district will become more responsive to student needs.
- (when trying to work on education reform)...one of the challenges was bringing together people who normally don't work with each other on many issues
- in far too many cases, the individual needs of children are practically subservient to the interests of the system.
- Our laser focus on schools and making them better has blinded us to what should be the real focus of our attention: the people.
- ....the values and aspirations linked to student learning have to be instilled early and that an environment promotive of learning must be supported by families in a society concerned with the well-being of all of its members.
- We need to change from an education culture which is focused on process, rules, systems, and politics to a learning culture focused on lifelong learning and the personal and national pride associated with that learning.
- All children can learn. But all children cannot learn in the same way. ....having the very best teachers in our most troubled schools.
Several success stories showed leadership as key to achieve learning they wished to see in their students. Cases raised mentioned about passion, commitment, and implementation with the leaders having their strong belief in the culture of learning, the culture of achievement that will promote high student achievement. The leaders had to be the role models as learners, keep their words to accommodate requests by their teachers, and encourage them to work together.
As we're going through and have been through reforms, this book is so relevant to give us some thoughts to ponder. Leadership at ministries and departments need to think hard how bureaucracy can impact the reform process hard while we all need to remind ourselves repeatedly that whatever reform it is, it is for our students, not the curriculum, infrastructure, or the administrative positions ka.
Keep our fingers crossed for the next reform na ka.
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