"The attention to detail and the absolute focus of the success and well being of each child may emerge as hallmarks of Peebles leadership."-quote from article
-I truly hope Superintendent Thandiwe Peebles can turn the Minneapolis schools system around. Our future is our children.-Shawn Lewis Thursday, September 16, 2004 A day with Thandiwe Peebles by Al McFarlane, Editor In Chief She sits high and looks low. She captains a $.5 billion enterprise. And she pays attention to the smallest of details. A child�s improperly tied shoelace, for example. The Baptist preacher�s homily describes an Omniscient Creator at the helm of existence, aware of the All in All. That Creator, the preachers sing in prayerful praise, shoulders responsibility for the over arching design of the universe, and at the same time sees and is concerned about the most minute detail�even the seemingly innocuous and unimportant. Preachers use the description both to portray the Supreme Authority, and to prescribe a model for human aspiration. Thandiwe Peebles, in the tradition of great Black educators, reflects the human aspiration to the preachers� model. Peebles spent the first three quarters of the first day of school this year making unannounced visits to Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) buildings and facilities. At 6 a.m. she greeted school bus drivers and their managers at the MPS Bus Transportation Center. From there, she went to Harry Davis School, then to Franklin Middle School, whose principal, Dr. Joyce-Lewis-Lake, had just died two days before the beginning of school. Insight News joined Peebles and her assistant, Felicia Cooper, at the Jordan Park School, at 30th and Logan, in North Minneapolis, and accompanied them on visits to Willard Elementary School, at 16th and Queen N., and Bancroft, at 38th Street and 13th Av. S. http://www.insightnews.com/articles.asp?mode=display&articleID=1481 Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
