The first question is the doorway through which future inquiry enters. Reflect on your experience during this past summer. Your immediate reflection is guided by a tacit question that underlies your inquiry. If your immediate reflection produced a negative feeling, what question was behind your reflection? If your immediate reflection produced a positive emotion, what [...]
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If we use appreciative inquiry into helping to sustain and evolve an ecologically healthy public school system with universal access, we are bound to think about our first question. It is through this first question that we engage our inquiry. It is through this first question, that future conversations will be formed. Cooperrider says it [...]
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Universal public education began as a noble effort in the American democratic experiment. The experiment continues, as does our noble effort. The endeavor by countless people to evolve and perfect the noble work to create universal public education stands as a testimony to an underlying American belief in the importance of an educated population to [...]
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This blog has the formation of a positive, uplifting, and inspiring conversation regarding universal public education as one of its goals. If you would like to be a contributor, email me at calabrese.31@osu.edu. I will add you as a contributor allowing you to post your contributions. No posts will be allowed that are negatively framed, [...]
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My previous posts focused briefly on public education as a miracle of organization and collaboration. One methodology for discovering this miracle and seeing public education through new eyes is through appreciative inquiry. Seeing through new eyes is a fundamental human choice. It is a choice of free will that runs counter to a culture of [...]
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In my first post, I posited that the process of public school education in the United States was a miracle of organization and cooperation that involved students, teachers, parents, and the community. If one can set aside a propensity to criticize public education, then one has to acknowledge that something marvelous happens each school day [...]
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Friday, September 19, 2008, another miracle occurred in the U.S. Over 55 million young people participated in the universal educational experiment of public school education. They were taught by more than four million teachers. All of this was done with little interruption. All of this was done by young people cooperating with teachers and administrators. [...]
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