BARBERSHOP TALK!!! WITH AUTHOR PATRICIA KOKINOS

Read ANGEL PARK, a novel about transforming ourselves and our schools. www.ChangeTheSchools.com Changing the Schools Can Change the World. In addition, the overwhelming numbers reflect less than adequate achievement from "our" children. If you have a younger person you care about, don't miss this show. The quantum leap that our schools need to take is from the traditional structure that everyone in America has passed through over the past century to a new vision of schooling that incorporates what we have learned from school change research, experiments, and demonstrations over the past 40 years. Here are five critical areas where change must happen in order to move public education forward for the good of every child and for America’s future: 1. Concept--how we view the purpose of school and what we want kids to get out of it. 2. Size--what a change of concept would require as optimum. 3. Structure--how we can organize learning to support kids. 4. Training--how we can help teachers learn and grow. 5. Philosophy--how we demonstrate our values in the kind of school experience we create.