Recommended: Challenges of school leadership
In the book, “Rereading America,” written by Toni Cade Bambara along with Gary Colombo and Robert Cullen, Bambara focuses on the challenges and desire to teach by contras of what you don’t have and what you can achieve. (Bambara, pg. 253-259) It is without doubt that even though a cookie cutter theory is used in most schools; there will be certain social economical neighborhoods in which a teacher or adult will have to vary the process of communication in order to get his or her point across with dedication and teach the love for learning. Ms. Moore had been a wise educated woman who did not avoid the challenging attitudes of children going up in a disadvantaged economical community.
In history there are a lot of great leaders who stood up for what they believed in and never gave up, such as the books A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Little Rock Girl by Shelley Tougas. In the book there are young leaders who never gave up and had a great impact on young people. 14 year old Carlotta, was in the group with 8 other young teenagers who only wanted to make it to class. Just making it through the door of Central High was a huge relief. In 1957, during the integration in Little Rock Central High school, the media illuminated certain events but showed an inaccurate or incomplete picture of other events.
In the book, When a Heart Turns Rock Solid by Timothy Black, the lives of three Puerto Rican brothers is uncovered. The parents of these boys, Juan and Angela moved them around in their youth. They were born in Puerto Rico and then were moved to Yonkers, NY where Julio started first grade but ended up finishing first grade back in Puerto Rico. Julio the started and finished second and third grade in Yonkers, NY before moving back to Puerto Rico again and remained there for four years. After the four years in Puerto Rico, they moved back to America for good (Black 17).
He was also Class President. He worked closely with guidance counselors to set up classes for the future. Francisco
This committee was necessary as our schools have gone through rapid growth in a world that is constantly changing. I was asked to join as a student member of this committee, and jumped on board without hesitation, remembering all the good that the schools had done for me. As a student member of this committee, I worked with teachers and administration across the school district, parents of kids in the district, and community leaders in both Sartell and St. Stephen to come up with a common vision for the future of our schools and a blueprint to lead us there. As we met through the rest of that school year, we came up with the common goal of meeting the mission statement of the Sartell Schools, which is to “Inspire the entire community to develop well-rounded citizens capable of becoming successful and contributing members of society by providing outstanding instruction in a caring and
Teachers do not only teach their pupils math, science, history and other facts, but these educators teach them how to think and solve problems in order to develop the students’ character. Westside says in their vision statement that “They (students) are inspired and equipped to excel academically, think critically, and understand that what they learn is a gift to be used for the sake of others.” That sums up what the teachers at Westside are trying to do: have students think about the big picture. A big aspect of being human is being able to think, reason and make choices based on one’s learning.
It is a dark, melancholy time; Grant feels he has little or no impact on his students. On the contrary, Grant has no empathy for his students, or sympathy for their hardships. From this moment, one can learn that he is frustrated with his life and with his role as a teacher. The man modeled seeks to control, not motivate. He is as cruel as the cold, unforgiving season of winter.
Another concept we observed in the movie is Jim Collin’s example of a bus. One of the first action Mr. Clark took as he was hired to be the new school principle was to get the wrong people off the bus-- he expelled the students who were identified as drug dealers and troublemakers to ensure students the optimal learning environment. Mr. Clark also made sure those who stayed ‘on the bus’ understand why and how he would make the change: he wanted the students to have a good future and empowered them to work hard and prove to the world that they are not inferior. During the inspirational speech Mr. Clark gave to the school assembly before the skills test, he said “And I've got a message out there for those people who have abandoned you and written you off. You are NOT inferior.
In the first chapter of Brian Shultz’s Spectacular Things Happen along the Way, Shultz creates a curriculum where the students get to choose how and what they should learn. Shultz made the students figure out an issue in their community that they would like to improve, and the students decided that they want a new school facility. He lets the students decide how they should go about getting this new school facility and as a result he gives the students the opportunity to examine their cultural backgrounds and how they have experienced being born into that culture. Shultz helped create Project Citizen, an initiative to have students get a new school facility. Project citizen makes the students look at the individual problems with their school
A picture of the teacher as a passionate, dedicated advocate for students is the one that was painted by Gregory Michie in See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools. Michie presented the teachers in his books as individuals who needed to work tirelessly to overcome obstacles that the students and the teachers confronted. The teachers strove to overcome these obstacles because doing so was what they thought was in the best interests of their students. See You When We Get There tells the story of five Chicago teachers and their students as presented by Michie. He works to illustrate what he believes to be the most honest view of the way these individuals succeed and fail in their daily lives in urban schools.
Goldbaltt states that “power relations, historical oppression, and the role of the dominant culture” are factors that a teacher needs to consider before participating in a program promoting social change (69). To insure a mutual benefit, instructors should communicate with their community partners about the goals and outcomes they wish to establish with this partnership and insure it correlates with the goal for the students’
The school describes social change to be “something that we just talk about rather, it is who we are” (Walden University, 2015, Social Change section, para. 2). Ultimately, the school’s goal is to encourage students to be active agents of social change and to inculcate in them the desire to bring forth positive impact within their community through the actions that they choose to engage. In our world where the level of violence, inequality, and poverty is disturbingly high and climbing steadily, I believe that people who were educated about the value of making a positive impact to the lives of other people will be of great help in battling these prominent global issues. The collaborative efforts of educators who share a common goal of improving the lives of the people of the future by providing their students equal opportunities to learn, as well as relevant, engaging, and highly cognitive learning experiences that will ready them for their careers will certainly make a difference. Since day one and until now, I have constantly been reminded of my role of an educator of the 21st century.
This is exemplified in the collocation of 'make a difference' (4-5) showing the positive attributes the principal is aiming to instil in the school community. Thus assisting in the creation of community spirit and identity within the
Though testing is necessary with the current structure of evaluating students, there is a conscience effort to improve schooling for students. Hoping to stay teaching in Eastern Washington, I am excited to see teachers setting the foundation for change. I hope that I have the opportunity to not only help my students inside the classroom but also in a more political way that will help students that I am not teaching. Like many things that I’ve experienced in these last ten weeks of class, my thoughts on education have definitely been
She taught her all subjects. Math, reading, and language arts. Then after Ruby and the teacher’s hard effort the school became integrated.
