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First Post!

10/15/2011

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An open Invitation

Dear Teachers, Parents; Students; School Administrators; Private, Public and Social Sector Officials; and others in the community, 

Can you imagine summer and after-school programs being the fruit of the labor of classroom teachers and college education majors who participate in and are supported by a collaborative community of innovation - formed by all kinds of individuals and institutions from public, private and social sectors - who come together, in mind and heart, to help organize the education process and infrastructure that fits today’s market realities?

Can you imagine hundreds of thousands of teachers being able to share their own stories and hear those of students, parents, schools administrators, policy makers and others in the community about their education experiences and perspectives? 

Can you imagine the teachers combining their own experience with other shared information and using this as a base to develop multidisciplinary educational tools that meet and engage the minds and hearts of their students in a realistic and relevant manner? 

Can you imagine policy makers and all sorts of other professionals in the private, public and social sectors feeling motivated to put their practices, experiences and their institutions’ infrastructures in alignment with the field research findings that their community of innovation invites? And, in the process of doing so, can you imagine the unintended effect of adding a more profound meaning to their work?

Can you imagine existing education institutions and interest groups being fueled by the innovation that this approach delivers and adapting changes accordingly to their operations and practices?  

Oh - What a movement this would be! 

Imagine using summer and after school time to work in laboratory-like environments, with the most disadvantaged and other students in changing communities under the guidance of trained and engaged educators testing prospective multidisciplinary quality academic materials and strategies.  

Imagine them transforming this mostly childcare time into powerful learning time connected with innovative school academic work.

Imagine teachers and college students being compensated as they train and address real education needs instead of working in unrelated jobs to make ends meet.  

Imagine youth juvenile delinquency and early pregnancy rates diminishing with the accompanying rise in social benefits and financial savings. 

Imagine teachers going back to their regular school classroom equipped with a renewed sense of trust and confidence in themselves, their superiors, their students and the community outside the school.

Imagine them equipped with new and tested classroom tools and strategies. 

Imagine them annually sharing their results and best practices to others in the sector. 

Imagine researchers being able to have at hand a real and sustainable environment from which to derive fresh knowledge and help determine the trends in the evolution of education.

Imagine private corporate officials, besides feeling helpful by putting their communications and management technologies to service the education process, being able to profit from getting knowledge workers with the attitudinal skills the global market demands.  

Today it is clear that the major challenges humanity faces are not solvable by any particular sector or interest group, and this is even truer in education.  Quality education is the responsibility of everyone in a community.  With teachers at the heart of it, communities of innovation are a way to create, support and maintain a fresh approach to the ever changing field of education.    

Aura Camacho-Maas


5 Comments
John Maas
10/16/2011 07:42:20 am

Nice website. Congratulations.

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MAIHAA/MAYA
10/27/2011 03:40:21 pm

I am in agreement with your goals and visions Aura, and yes, I can IMAGINE this lifetime goal and purpose you are sharing coming into fruition in the near future!

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Cougar
10/27/2011 05:01:51 pm

(This is a response to this blog, as well as a response to a question that Aura posed to me on a different forum, where I'm also posting my answer.)
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Aura, you're quite right that there is a natural connection between your vision and mine. In answer to your questions and comments:
1) I do like to meet with people personally, when possible, for the Clarity Conversations, but the reality is that currently, three of my Clarity Buddies are long distance relationships. For example, I would have no problem doing a Clarity Conversation with you over Skype as a way of exploring what kinds of partnerships we could create that would serve your vision, as well as my own.
2) I have a strong interest in transformative education, which began in the seventies when I studied alternative educational strategies. In actual fact, the original 1976 vision for the Grok Wisdom Journey was seeded by this study.
3) Your blog visions changes at the policy level within the educational hierarchy. My system operates at the person-to-person level, and it is both intentionally and fundamentally nonhierarchical. In other words, we have compatible visions operating in different scopes.
If you are interested in a Clarity Conversation about all of this, send me a private email so that we can set up a time.
Thank you for your comments.

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Marj Barlow link
10/28/2011 01:34:11 am

Thank you for your leadership in education, Aura. Just imagine......a big yes to you and much gratitude for being on the green edge of innovative learning and teaching. I am in your group twelve in Jean Houston's course. This is thrilling to see and I send my love and encouragement.

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    Aura Camacho-Maas

    CEO/Founder former Non-Profit Education Agency.  

    Former member North Carolina's Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps Commission and Human Relations Commission. 

    Frances Hesselbain Fellow - Peter Drucker Foundation, 
    William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations.

    Awards

    YWCA of Wake County - Education Award

    YMCA  of Wake County - International Award

    Featured in UNC-TV North Carolina People with Bill Friday


       

    "The various faculties of memory, judgement, 
    imagination, perception, reasoning,  which build the edifice of the thought and knowledge for the knower, must not only be equipped with their fit and sufficient tools and materials, but trained to bring fresh materials and use more skillfully those of which they are in possession." 
                  Sri Aurobindo

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