#Far side school for the gifted professional#
Examples of responsibilities include: teacher/administrator professional development, assessment, TPEP, curriculum/materials review, 24 credit requirement, technology levy leadership, teacher/administrator bargaining. Present work includes establishing the first Teaching/Learning/Innovation department in the Fife School District. Previous member of UW Tacoma PEAB, Administrative CertificationĮstablished and maintained Fife’s first website for 7 years Previous member of AWSP Legislative Committee The most important part of Bostwick’s quote is the responsibility of leaders to explain why it’s crucial to step forward and push the door open.īecause, “Changing the way we educate students is not only necessary…it’s a moral imperative.”Īssistant Superintendent:Teaching-Learning-Innovation Our job as leaders is to provide more support, encouragement, and time to process. Perhaps some individuals aren’t certain why it’s crucial to step forward.” -Elisabeth Bostwick, Take the L.E.A.P.: Ignite a Culture of Innovation It’s entirely possible that those of us who fear change or are uncomfortable with it simply require more support, encouragement, or time to process along the way. “But I’d like to challenge the notion that just because someone appears to be unwilling to change, they are fans of the status quo club. Here’s an idea from Elisabeth Bostwick on that notion, We can’t pine for kids who can create, innovate, connect, and collaborate, but blame the need to attend to test scores as reason to keep pushing on the door.Īnother example of pushing against the door that needs to be pulled is a notion that teachers don’t want to try new things or don’t think the skills Don describes are important. But not as much and not anywhere near enough to not attend to Don’s idea. Clearly the significance of this single piece of data as the be all and end all is dimming. One of the reasons to still pull the door is the focus on kids’ test scores. What are some of the reasons that the door requires us to pull? We need to be able to push the door open.īut the door still says pull. Teachers and principals absolutely know that kids deserve and need a different type of learning experience. As leaders, we sometimes feel like we’re pushing against a door that says to pull. Working with our principals and teachers, thinking about Don’s quote, I am reminded of the great Gary Larson cartoon above. Changing the way we educate students is not only necessary…it’s a moral imperative.”
We need students who can identify and solve complex, real-world problems. We don’t need students who can fill in bubbles on a multiple-choice test we need students who can create, innovate, connect, and collaborate. “We do our students a disservice when we prepare them for a world that no longer exists and fail to empower them with the skills and abilities they will need to navigate rough and shifting seas. We’re leading off with this quote from Don Wettrick, This morning, we have our principals’ meeting. It was an absolute original whose time was gone far too soon.One of the greatest cartoons of all time. I’m not sure what prompted me to write this. Whatever your limit, it was only like hitting a reset button for Larson’s comic to infect your sense of self. Eventually, you had your breaking point, that point where you curled up under a desk and howled with laughter until your sides cramped into place. The other thing I noticed very early on (and I’m not alone in this) was Larson’s columns may not have been connected from day to day, but the humor impact was cumulative. However, looking back simply adds another perspective why Larson was so relevant and so frickin’ funny at the same time. Being in media the past 17 years is no excuse for my immediate connection with Larson and his New World View. What does that say about my sense of humor? Probably that I’m weird and warped…and have been since I was a teenager. Heathcliff was one when I was really young. Dilbert was one, especially when I worked in a cubicle environment at the Lincoln Journal Star. There haven’t been a lot of comics in my life where I absolutely, positively had to read them every day. I’m guessing nobody really thought of it when Larson’s new comic debuted, and I’m not sure Larson processed it until much later, but his cartoon was the perfect way to capture the foibles, hypocrisies and out-and-out strangeness of human existence. In some cases, it was the animals doing the very things we as humans (normally) despise in our own behavior. It was an amazing 15-year run for The Far Side, the mainly one- or two-panel cartoon that featured weird, sometimes offhand, occasionally controversial meld of human behavior seen through the eyes of animals, aliens, the supernatural or even other humans. We’re now nearly 20 years down the road from when Gary Larson finally put his sketch pad aside, stored his pencils and stopped giving us his daily insight into his unique look at our world.
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