Teacher turns 'crazy idea' into new school lead by teachers not bureaucrats., page 1
Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 3 times
Topic started on 9-9-2009 @ 04:55 PM by tothetenthpower
This is great thing to be happening in the American school system. It's finnally attempting to break the tired old mold and attempt something new.

This is atory from CNN about a remarkable teacher and her new school.

Link


(CNN) -- "I have a crazy idea": Those five words changed a simple meeting of school officials into the realization of Kim Ursetta's dream.

Kim Ursetta leads her kindergarten class at Mathematics and Science Leadership Academy in Denver, Colorado.

1 of 5 Ursetta, then president of a local teachers' union, blurted out those words 18 months ago during a meeting in the office of Denver, Colorado's, schools superintendent.

The other officials in the room leaned in as Ursetta leaped into a sales pitch that would turn an ordinary day into a highlight of her career.

"I want to start a new kind of school," she said, a union-sponsored public school led by teachers, not a principal.


What are your thoughts ATS?
Pages:     ^^TOP^^



A MUST Read, "Written By A Female Cop"
  Posted 3 days ago with 34 member flags
Know your enemy ... the Daily Mail & Viscount Rothermere
  Posted 13 days ago with 17 member flags
Pictures That Shocked The World (viewer discretion advised)
  Posted 1 days ago with 11 member flags
NBC and the Banned \'Fear Factor\' Episode
  Posted 9 days ago with 6 member flags