To end the myth that we do not know how to create inspired, soaring, nurturing, result producing educational environments. In education, our interest is not simply in understanding the current morass in public education around the world, but to provide vehicles for its dramatic transformation. There is considerable evidence that we can now define inspired teaching. If we are able to define it, why do we find it so hard to re-create it at will? Would it be so difficult to create environments where young people achieved brilliantly and knew that their worth in the world was not connected to test scores? Why is it not possible to make every classroom a nurturing, result producing environment? Do we not care enough? Do we not see the connection to the results people produce in their adult lives? Are we not willing to fight policies or unions or spend the money in order to produce the result? Do we want kids who all know the same thing or ones who see themselves as responsible for their own education? Examples: Schools, YMCA’s, Job Corps, Corporations.

Are you willing to take this message, if you experience it to be true, to every school in your area? Are you willing to let them know there are solutions?

Inspired Teaching – Early Feedback

My acquaintanceship with Bill Cumming is not yet a year old, but months of watching him work with teachers, and talking with teachers with whom he has worked convince me that here indeed is something new in education. What that “something new” is, put simply, a process that rejuvenates experienced classroom teachers; halts and reverses an almost universal drift toward “burn-out;” puts teachers back in touch with the well-springs of idealism and hope that propelled them originally; builds or rebuilds a positive, “can-do” attitude toward everyday problems, and enormous professional challenges as well.  Read more…