What is I send them back. If you receive a bad batch of students we can never send them back. This is school not a business.
100
Community Trust
What is a prerequisite to progress where the public believes the educators can restructure the school.
100
Flaw in the system
What is American schools were not designed to teach all children to high levels. Two tracks, the laboring and the learned.
100
An up hill battle
What is a way to describe the difficulty educators face in making change.
100
Negative media
What is negative, sensational stories are easier to sell than understanding educations complex issues.
200
Select and Sort
What is an ineffective process we must end in order to educate all children.
200
Community Permission
What is gaining the green light we need before proceeding with change. You cannot touch a school without touching the community.
200
Knowledge Age
What is the era that came after the Industrial Age.
200
This too shall pass
What is a belief that the latest Idea is temporary and this if you wait it will go away and you can move on without changing.
200
Frenzy of privatization
What is the ideological war against everything managed bt the government. Private is superior.
300
A systems problem
What is the idea that it is not the people but something within the way things operate that must be changed.
300
Community Support
What is when the community acts as a partner. They demonstrate patience and respect. Friends,families and neighbors acts as owners of the school.
300
Time as constant
What is the smoking gun in education. All students do not learn in the same amount of time. Time must be changed to educate all.
300
Flavor of the month
What is a trend that the idea or need for changes will be replaced soon by another one.
300
Schools as scapegoats
What is no social or economic problem is too remote or absurd to be blamed on the school. A constant blame game.
400
"Real school"
What is mental model of the school people think they attended or remember.
400
Ever increasing burden
What is the expanding curriculum and increasing duties Vollmer has on his list such as nutrition, health, more math and science, drug prevention, NCLB.
400
The bell curve
What is a selection process that should be viewed as a real bell that recognizes multiple three dimensional intelligences.
400
"Nostesia"
What is the mental disease 50% nostalgia, 50% amnesia. Americans suffer from thinking the grand schools of the past were superior to the dreadful schools of today.
400
The Biloski Dilemma
What is the trend where people are busy, dancing as fast as they can, not apathetic, lazy, angry or ignorant. They don't get involved in school because of working, or no babysitter. Life interferes.
500
Community Understanding
What is a prerequisite to progress that says a community must know why change is necessary before they will change.
500
The Great Conversation
What is the strategically sound enterprise any community can initiate and maintain with existing resources and personnel.
500
Intelligence is genetic
What is a belief that people are born with a certain amount of intelligence that is fixed for life.
500
Changing demographics
What is a trend such as "been there done that" explaining that America is getting older. We must understand the effect this has on our community
500
Fear of school violence
What is a trend that creates anxiety, frightens the public and keeps people away from schools.