When I read what Jennifer wrote about creating a thinking classroom and a
thinking school, it put the words to my "inner conversation" that I have been
having for the last few months (thanks to all of the members of the mosaic
listserve). I had started with filling in staff development suggestions, from
the surveys that we complete at the end of the year for various workshops in my
school and system, that I would love to have a book study to look at some of
the new and outstanding books (including Ellin's). I even went so far as to
list titles that would be a good beginning of a "brainstorm" list for my asst
principal, including even some math titles. Well that seems to be as far as it
went because no one has responded. I was a little depressed about it, but now
I feel inspired and I am going to send an email to my collegues at school to
see who might be interested in starting a book study own our own. I have asked
my close friends if they are
interested in doing a book study on To Understand. Do you think that it will
be OK to do that if most of them have not read Mosaic? It would be great if we
could planning lessons together using the ideas in To Understand and then get
feedback on them. Anyway, thanks to everyone for the motivation (including
ellin for her book which has caused me to reexamine several things in my
professional world).
Jennifer - I am a Title I Reading Specialist as well (but my NBCT is MCG). Do
you see the emphasis shifting to Math (probably since the National Math Panel
released it's report in March)? Maybe the stress for RESEARCH BASED PROGRAMS
will also shift to Math.
Kate in NC
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