[Winona Online Democracy]
From: Roger Peckover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> College of Education St
Mary's University and parent of two sons.
I take the core of Paul Bianchi�s message to be as follows:
When people are willing to build a learning community by:
1) actively seeking and holding common ground together
2) remaining committed to each other in a shared decision-making process
and
3) acting themselves into a dream together,
there is great hope for children!
I find his message both exciting and hopeful for Winona. It is a paradigm
shift in thinking about accountability. It is a move beyond defining
accountability only through a faceless, nameless cost/benefit vision of trust
as measured by reducing district budgets and district test score expectations
that will never finally show the score of, �good enough.� It is a move beyond
accountability built from disconnectedness, disinterest, and distrust. It is
a move toward an accountability defined by �trustworthiness.� Trustworthiness
as a form of accountability is built through actions of care. Trustworthiness
is accountability constructed through coming together. Trustworthiness is
accountability built by people making a mutual commitment to shared action,
investment in each other, and to a sense of pride and ownership in saying,
"this is our school."
So, Paul's message leaves me with two questions. First, are we in Winona
ready to seek common ground and act ourselves into a dream? And second, what
kind of educational accountability do we really want to define us as a
community?
Roger Peckover
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Randy Schenkat 1358 Skyline Dr. Winona, Mn 55987 507-452-7168
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