creating a vision for salisbury

Creating a Vision for Salisbury…

WhatMakes AQuality

Education?

Randy Ziegenfuss, Ed.D.Western Salisbury Elementary PTA

My story…

What makes a quality education?

“The single biggest problem in education is that no one agrees on why we educate. Faced with this lack of consensus, policymakers define good education as higher test scores.”

~ Diane Ravitch

Why is it important to answer this question?

While policymakers matter, they are not the final arbiters in the debate. We should not allow them to be.

Our answer defines what we give time to and what becomes priority in the day-to-day life of the classroom. How we answer the question shapes our aspirations as parents, educators and society at large.

What do you want your children (all children) to be like as adults?

For example: curious, engaged, able to persevere, etc.

• What ideas come to mind when you consider this question?

• What connections can you make to others’ responses? • What questions arise as you think about the question and

consider the responses of others?

The student is an engaged and active thinker able to communicate, innovate, collaborate and problem-solve.

The student is an engaged and active thinker able to communicate, innovate, collaborate and problem-solve.

How do we get there?

How do we realize such a vision?

How are our schools doing in producing the vision of students as

thinkers?

Children grow into the intellectual life of those around them?

What kind of intellectual life are we surrounding our children with at home, in school and in the classroom?

~ Lev Vygotsky

Old Story

What words or phrases characterize our experience in school?

Current Story

What words or phrases characterize the experience of our children in school?

New Story

How is the current story adequately promoting the outcomes we value?

How do we DREAM and ARTICULATE a new vision?

What if…?

What makes a quality education?

Randy Ziegenfuss, Ed.D.

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