Visioning 2026 Blog
After School Program Looking for Community Support with Open House
Take a break Saturday (05/21/11) and head downtown and visit The Zone (2-4 PM), an after school character development program.
Norfolk Daily News provided an in depth article about what program supporters are looking to do with this character development program to satisfy the needs of youth in an after school environment.
Study for money is one of their concepts that worked well in the past. How can we expand on this? Increase the reward? I'm interested in learning from others how we can make this even more attractive with positive results.
How about a challenge, I'll match the first $100 toward a goal of $200, that is 400 1/2 hour study periods given the current program.
Contact me, Mark Hall, wtcmarketing@eselling4u.com or Julee Pfeil with your ideas
Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak
There this a debate going on concerning 21st-Century Skills teaching methods.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/03/04/23pushback_ep.h28.html?tmp=1625104813
Here’s what I find interesting, the opponents are making this learning/teaching method into an “either/or” versus “and/both” thinking solution set. One of the keys in the discussion from my point of view is helping the teachers prepare themselves for 21st-Century Skills teaching methods for the classroom. This different approach is not being accepted since it has more systemic changes to the process of learning. I find it interesting the opponents attack this approach but they have little to offer on how to improve our educational system. Another thing I like about the 21st-Centruy Skills method it is more student focused versus teacher focused.
Keep advancing this program in our schools system as I believe it will pay-off big time in the years ahead.
World Class Professional Development for the Whole Team--What Do Think About Norfolk School Systems
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