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Back-to-School Communications

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By Anne O'Brien on August 24, 2010

Welcome back to school!

While you educators are at various stages of the back-to-school process--you may have been getting to know students for weeks now, or met students yesterday, or be setting up your classroom or office--we know that many of you are preparing back-to-school presentations, columns, and other communications.  So we wanted to remind you that we have sample language available for use in back-to-school communications.  Feel free to steal our words. Take them all, or take only a few. Whatever your needs dictate.

This language outlines an emerging vision for 21st century public schools, a vision that is already taking shape in schools from coast to coast.  It reaffirms the extraordinary mission of our public schools and encourages strong partnerships among public schools, citizens and communities. Download the language here.  

Link to this story: http://www.learningfirst.org/back-school-communications

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Thanks for some wonderful

Submitted by Anthony V. Manzo, Ph.D. on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:04

Thanks for some wonderful suggestions. If I might I'd like to piggyback on your very practical words for the here and now with some words that address a longer term project, but one that has the potential to alter Professional Education as a career and a social service:
‘What Next Survey’ for Essential Educational Reform
Teachers cannot be held accountable just yet, they have been deprived of the best tools.
The effort to advance the tools of Instructional Science and Teacher Preparation has proven to be more difficult than it would appear. The lynch pin to such progress has centered around creating a systematic means of identifying and promulgating Best Instructional Practices. There is no such thing as a profession, other than teaching that has not done so. Our more recent efforts have stalled out as we face a lack of will to do so. This raises the difficult issue of What Next? Implied in this question are several others such as: is it even known/realized that this step has not been taken? Why has it not been taken? And, how can we get this elementary matter behind us?
Strictly speaking there can be no such thing as teacher education without identifying Best Instructional Practices, nor can teachers or anyone else be held accountable for student achievement until Best Practices have been promulgated and used in the nation’s, make that the globe’s classrooms. Please help us to plan the next steps by clicking on or pasting the very brief survey at this URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SFD9L3H.

For a heads-up on this effort to date see:
1. http://bestmethodsofinstruction.com/

2.http://teacherprofessoraccountability.ning.com/main/invitation/new?xg_source=msg_wel_network.
3. https://bestpracticesteachers.groupsite.com/blog

Anthony V. Manzo, Ph.D./ Professor Emeritus/ avmanzo@aol.com

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