Winter 2013 Issue
By Richard A. Ries
I am considered to be an inspiring teacher. I taught in independent schools all of my life, because they champion individual attention, feature their own good values, and accept teacher creativity and academic freedom. They are usually free of the strictures of public school curricula. I came to a school in Florida to teach in an independent school, only to see the school sadly strive to become as independent as a Dunkin Donuts franchise when it “went IB.”
via: ActivistPost
June 22, 2012
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) insists we embrace "sustainable development" to save the planet. But when CFACT asked ICLEI members at their "World Congress" in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, we got more "umms" and "uhhs" than anything else!
Welcome
Dear Colleagues and friends,
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the 4th WorldCALL Conference, the first to be held in Europe. The event will be hosted by the University of Ulster.
The theme of the conference will be Sustainability and CALL.
The keynote speakers for the conference will be:
Emerita Banados (Chile)
Jozef Colpaert (Belgium)
Students aged 10 to 12 who are in their final year of the programme are expected to carry out an extended, collaborative inquiry project, know as the exhibition, under the guidance of their teachers.
The exhibition represents a significant event in the life of both the school and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the programme and sharing them with the whole school community. It is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the student profile that have been developing throughout their engagement with the programme. It is a culminating experience marking the transition from the PYP to the Middle Years Programme (MYP).
Schools are given considerable flexibility in their choice of the real-life issues or problems to be explored and investigated in the exhibition.
Activist Post: Texas Mayor Officially Cancels Agenda 21 Membership
Now if we could only reach the common sense of all the other mayors. The propaganda has just been too good for Agenda 21. Oh, and most people have never heard of Agenda 21. I hadn't heard of it until just a few months ago. Check out my other posts about Agenda 21 on this blog.
