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Edited: 1/20/2009 11:42 AM
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Issues, Thoughts, Questions, Etc.
What are the best practices and obstacles to effective career preparation
Posted: 1/30/2009 10:48 PM
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Tony Garcia
How come we are not investing the same of amount of money to the gifted and bright students as we do to the low achieving and "needy" students? If you are really talking about making students reading for the 21st century, a new learning environment needs to be created like a CART school.
Posted: 1/30/2009 10:56 PM
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Tony Garcia
Being that we live in the Central Valley, where a large portion of our population is Latino, would it not make since to support bilingual programs, especially ones that are showing success on standard base test like Dual Immersions Programs are? By having a workforce that can communicate to a larger population means more transactions between the business and consumer sector.
Posted: 1/30/2009 11:04 PM
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Tony Garcia
Why are the private colleges not part of the board? Should they not be a part of the solution in helping students get ready for the workforce? Don't they provide a great resource for students who do not wish to attend a 4 year college? So why not create a path of prerequiste courses for them in high school then when they graduate, they can attend one of the many private colleges Fresno/Clovis has to offer?
Posted: 6/25/2009 8:38 PM
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Tony Garcia
Why is the district not supporting apple computers? Its been written in several places how less often they crash, plus they come with software that students can use to create movies, songs, or podcast right out of the the box. And the best part about it is, they are easy to use.
Posted: 6/25/2009 8:56 PM
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Tony Garcia
If the district is really thinking about "reaching" or educating the students, they need to restructure the curriculum. What they ought to do is bring in "tools" students are using. For example in Germany, using the video game guitar hero, a playstation 2, a computer, and iphone, they created a high school course around it. They learned music, geography, art, oral communication, and writing. Imagine students developing a game over 2 years in teams of 4. They would learn brainstorming, cooperation, oral communication, computer language, game play, coloring, art, and other things in developing a game. Wow. Or how about students who want to create their own band. Why can't they create an album? All they would need is access to some instruments and an apple computer. What about becoming a doctor? Why not teach students how to create new applications for the iphone that is needed in the medical field or have students use the applications that have already been created? You see, this restructing of the curriculum is endless, if you just bring in what kids are using today.