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Good Morning,
The Paul Bianchi lecture was
well attended last night. The school director from Atlanta's Paidiea
School had a personable conversation with the audience about school
environments and their effect on kids, parents, employees and learning.
The evening was full of humble disclaimers, studied observations, humor, and
progressive thinking on how schools can be both effective and
humane.
The panel (Eric Bartleson,
Jodi Dansingburg, Polly Gower, Steve Kranz, Jean Leicester,
Roger Peckover, John Ruggeberg, Randy Schenkat, Natalie Siderius,
and Katy Smith) will be posting their thoughts, reactions and insights
today. Then, any readers can jump in with questions and conversation as we
move through the week. We'll wrap up any lingering discussion after the
weekend.
Enjoy this great
conversation on schools and learning!
Sharon Erickson Ropes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 3:19
PM
Subject: [Winona] Bianchi
Note to WOD
I encourage
your attendance tonight at Bianchi's talk on a different type of
schooling at 7-8:30 pm in Maxwell Center (old WSU library)
. The Winona Post did a good advance
story)http://www.winonapost.com/061503/4news.html),
Fran Edstrom will be
editorializing Wednesday, and the Winona Daily News will have coverage.
Also, starting at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday morning a virtual panel will kick off
our discussion. The information below gives some sense of how this will
proceed and is an easy way for you to invite others to
participate.
We hope this is a good civic discussion that leads
to action. Randy Schenkat
ps please keep your subject lines
at Bianchi
JOIN A COMMUNITY
DISCUSSION OF PAUL BIANCHI'S
IDEAS
IN
WINONA'S ONLINE DEMOCRACY*
Starting at 8:00 am Wednesday
Morning the following virtual panelists(Eric Bartleson, Jodi
Dansingburg. Polly Gower, Steve Kranz, Jean Leicester, Roger
Peckover, John Ruggeberg, Randy Schenkat, Natalie Siderius, Katy
Smith) will kick off a community discussion online by giving their responses
to the following questions: What did you hear this evening in Paul Bianchi's
talk that excited you and made sense for learning in Winona? How could
Bianchi's ideas be applied in Winona?
We'd welcome you to join the
discussion that will continue through Sunday June 22nd. During the
following week, the discussion will switch to forming ideas for
action.
* About Winona Online Democracy
The goal of Winona Online Democracy is to
empower, inform, and engage the citizenry by creating an ongoing
community-wide discussion of local public issues.
It is a FREE
list serve of email messages posted on community topics by over 200 citizens
that subscribe. TO SUBSCRIBE go our web site:
www.winonaonlinedemocracy.org and click on the subscribe(you're asked to
confirm your confirmation; it's easy to do by clicking on reply). You
can easily unsubscribe and can chose to have messages come the moment they are
posted or in one batch a day called a digest.
If you'd just
like to read the posts people are making, you can see them at our Archives
which can be found at the web site by clicking on the ARCHIVES at Winona
Online Democracy at Home Page. As the week proceeds, there will be
summaries posted. Check either FAQ or Bianchi at the Home Page.
If
you'd like others to SEE - Paul's talk , it will be broadcast on HBC Channel
20 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday June 28th and Sunday June 29th.
To
read more about Paul's School�.
http://www.paideiaschool.org
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Randy Schenkat 1358 Skyline Dr. Winona, Mn
55987 507-452-7168
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