I learned about the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform a couple of weeks ago listening to a podcast in my car driving from Oklahoma City back to Lubbock, and just got around to posting about it on my main blog this evening. ("Sea change in our educational culture")

It absolutely makes me SICK to see how many teachers today still think their primary role is to feed worksheets to students and make others engage with CONTENT more than IDEAS and in RELATIONSHIPS. As a student myself, I want to be engaged in the classroom and work on tasks that are both relevant and meaningful to me. I think this is something all learners want. That is why I am so excited to learn about the Schlechty Center. In my new professional role for AT&T here in the state of Oklahoma, I hope I'll be able to learn more about the Schlechty Center and help teachers and administrators adopt their teaching philosophy which emphasizes ENGAGEMENT and SUSTAINED INNOVATION.

Boy do we ever need both of those things in the US educational system today!