Take Heed!

Recently NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia made some remarks to the Detroit Economic Club concerning where education needs to move in the future. Ms. Garcia framed her comments around the oft-used them of the "whole child."

But her points should surely be taken to heart. As the NEA boss said, "the pillars of 'whole child education' are equity (every single student having the tools and resources to succeed), education that inspires (a collaborative effort between school staff to design the most exciting and engaging learning environment imaginable), and a personalized relationship between teacher and student and home and school."

These may not sound terribly new when examining the long history of education in America but, in my view, they have gone terribly absent in the recent couple of decades which have been highlighted by a homogenized system that has as its guidepost standardized testing.

Garcia is right on point regarding the way forward!

Dick