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Minding Our Future

Minding Our Future. To cultivate excellence in public schools so all students succeed in learning and life. Freddy By Don Graves Until that moment, ferret-faced Freddy ruined my days. Eggs sat cold on my morning plate, the weather cloudy and grey, and when I turned out

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Minding Our Future

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  1. Minding Our Future To cultivate excellence in public schools so all students succeed in learning and life.

  2. Freddy By Don Graves Until that moment, ferret-faced Freddy ruined my days. Eggs sat cold on my morning plate, the weather cloudy and grey, and when I turned out the light I heard him laugh, “I wasn’t doin’ nothin’, Mr. Graves.” But on that day when with eyes lit by a new fire he asked, “Did you know Humpback pods create a new song each year?” something jumped between us. We each built new lives on that simple question; Freddy followed his whales and I’ve been looking for what kids know ever since.

  3. Conferring . . . “Without groundwork, conferences will be for not – we must provide the underlying structures of a working environment, we must explicitly teach strategies to develop conference fodder, we must develop relationships to develop rich conversations, we must show our students that our conversations are important to both them and us.” Carl Anderson How’s It Going

  4. Structures for Success “I realized that, like all good rituals and routines, a predictable structure for reading conferences provides a pattern for me to follow each time I confer with a reader. More important, my students know that each side-by-side conference follows a similar pattern. There is research to suggest that familiar connections and conforming neural networks are key to the formation of meaning and intelligence (Jensen, 1998).” Patrick Allen, Conferring: The Keystone of Reader’s Workshop

  5. “As Stuart peered ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.” E. B. White Stuart Little

  6. Change is a Process . . . Not an Event “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.”

  7. “It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . it's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.” Marilyn Ferguson The Aquarian Conspiracy

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