[Oe List ...] Salmon: Public School Project

[Len Hockley via OE]

Just so we remember the big picture and where we came from, I submit the 
following short history a friend turned up this week:
https://luigimorelli.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/a-story-of-organizational-change-from-ecumenical-institute-to-fifth-city/

Len


On 7/6/2015 3:29 PM, Elsa Bengel via OE wrote:
> So interesting. Thirsty for learning. Remember Friere. When we have a 
> real problem to solve we accelerate learning. Extra-academic reminds 
> me of teaching world geography and eating food, singing a song, 
> learning to say hello, please and thank you in other languages.
> Elsa
>
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> On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:45 PM, William Salmon <wsalmon at cox.net 
> <mailto:wsalmon at cox.net>> wrote:
>
>> Steve, /et al. --/
>>     Three years ago, I developed a curriculum for Special 
>> Education/Behavior Disorder High School students. It is an elaborate 
>> plan involving a closed classroom, featuring training of classroom 
>> teachers, an isolated camping experience for all involved, a model 
>> for a weekly staffing, and an outreach program for parents. This plan 
>> assumed that I would administer the program with the goal of teaching 
>> the staff the Institute's academic methods and philosophy.
>>     The topic involved current "brain research" highlighting 
>> appropriate responses to student classroom behavior.
>>     I'll dig this out and send it on to you.
>>     The anticipations:
>> 1--The educational cooperative that hires para-educators assigned 
>> their grant writer to develop finances for the project.
>> 2--When reality finally broke in, I remembered I was 79 years old and 
>> in no position to administer the project, and it was dropped. The 
>> interesting thing is that my creditability was never questioned, and 
>> I was hired back for the next two years and I anticipate another 
>> year's work.
>> 3--A follow-up paper was written this last year entitled, "Wounded 
>> Birds," that provide extra-academic* methods for identifying 
>> classroom behavior.
>> 4--A paper is under development as a follow-up to this work entitled, 
>> "Is There a Better Way?" Interestingly, the idea was passed along by 
>> my academic mentor as teaching teachers to prepare to make students 
>> /thirsty for what they teach. /The subject illustrates 
>> extra-academic* teaching methods.
>>     Inner Peace,
>>     Bill Salmon
>> * /Extra-academic/ is meant to convey methods not ordinarily 
>> identified with the profession of teaching.
>
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