In Eldon "Cap" Lee's new book, standards become guidelines for success rather than deadlines for failure as it is recognized that all children are unique, with different brains and different dreams. This leads to the reality that children are children, not branded on their foreheads for their differences but accepted within the wide range of skills and abilities present in all of us. Brainstorming Common Core: Challenging the Way We Think about Education includes ideas developed in the trenches by talking to and servicing parents, educators, and students for over fifty years. This book draws away from an artificial testing based education to one that teaches the whole child. As we brainstorm Common Core we see the necessity to empower children to chase their dreams and follow their pathway to success, parents to become full partners in the process, and educators to take back their profession.
In Eldon "Cap" Lee's new book, standards become guidelines for success rather than deadlines for failure as it is recognized that all children are unique, with different brains and different dreams. This leads to the reality that children are children, not branded on their foreheads for their differences but accepted within the wide range of skills and abilities present in all of us. Brainstorming Common Core: Challenging the Way We Think about Education includes ideas developed in the trenches by talking to and servicing parents, educators, and students for over fifty years. This book draws away from an artificial testing based education to one that teaches the whole child. As we brainstorm Common Core we see the necessity to empower children to chase their dreams and follow their pathway to success, parents to become full partners in the process, and educators to take back their profession.
On these pages is a call to action for teachers who have been shackled by the self-serving motives of agenda driven politicians. Here we present a new innovative process designed to prepare children to be productive members of their community. Students are empowered to take charge of their educational lives where thinking is valued above obedience, and their parents are respected as full partners in the process. The greatest challenge to educators in this decade is to prepare children to rise above the confirmation bias and embrace critical thinking. In this day of continuous propaganda from many directions, everything requires in depth thinking, research and processing. Change won’t come from the top! The time has come to go underground to subvert the system from the bottom up. We infuse creative ideas while providing a pattern for systemic change that empowers teachers allowing them to take back their profession. Teachers are the saviors who are in the position to expand children’s minds to the stars and beyond, giving them hope that they will make the world a better place. It is time to take a risk for children by subverting the system with the goal of true, whole child education.
As students returned from the Coronavirus crisis, the critical question became “What grade are they in?” Were they passed with their age group without actually learning? Were they retained, allowing the school-to-prison pipeline process to begin? Or did they sit in summer school while politicians pretended they were catching up? The lessons from the pandemic were clear. Not only does the system not work for them anymore, the system has not worked for Black and Brown students—as well as White students in Appalachia—for the last 200 years.In addition to structural changes, the reality is that high stakes standardized testing drives the curriculum into a narrow scope of education when the need is to educate children beyond the classroom into the world of today. A Failed System: Pandemic-Related Solutions to a 200-Year-Old Education Crisis presents solutions designed to develop a system of education that places all children on an even playing field. The current system has no solutions to the structural problem and shows no interest in taking students beyond the big test. It is time to replace education’s failed system—students must be prepared to think!
Join Eldon Spady and his family on seven birding trips around the United States and in Costa Rica. This is a humorous look at birding and birders as well as a family at play. Though some of their trips involved about as much luxury as any true birder can expect, some, in Spady's words, involved "...places where we were afraid to use the washcloths, where you couldn't walk on the floor of the dining room without your shoes sticking, where the sheets were adorned with cigarette burns and strange-looking stains, and where the only view was a swimming pool covered with bugs and algae. "We often had to drive our own tour vehicle, schlep our own luggage, and eat things that looked like cheese-covered armadillos. One restaurant bathroom sported a sign that read Don't Wash Your Hands, They're Already Cleaner Than Anything Here "In spite of the challenges, at the heart of In Search of the Painted Bunting lies the revelation that family birding trips can be great fun (if you don't embarrass easily), rewarding, and punctuated with more than enough laughter to last till the next time.
1 John 4:7-8 Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 5:4 For who soever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Jesus said, "...This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Matthew 24:34). The Bible contains prophecies that could not be fulfilled until this generation, beginning with the birth of Israel in 1948.Dr. Bollinger looks at several prophetic signs that clearly indicate that we are "Our Final Generation" and that we are well on our way to the rapture of God's children. He also examines several Biblical prophecies that define the term "Our Final Last] Generation" e.g., the Antichrist, end-time false religion system, the last seven plagues, and the Battle of Armageddon, and many more.This book is a straightforward, well-documented overview of contemporary worldviews and current events that are now unfolding, consistent with biblical prophecy, logically revealing how and why this generation is "Our Final Generation." 146 pages-20 chapters-Easier to read large print.
