Yesterday I started back to school and spent the morning listening to speakers get us ready for a new year. The presentation by our superintendent included a power point presentation called Did you know.... It was basically a presentation filled with many facts about the upcoming years in education and the fact that we are preparing children right now for jobs that have not even been thought of yet. It also talked a lot about technology and the fact that everything will revolve around technology very soon in the future.

My sister was then telling me about a speaker they had at the school where she works yesterday that talked about the fact that school should not be so much about all of the "tests" that we must give (MEAP, ACT, SAT), but about problem solving and relationship building. This included the idea that the school would need to be willing to let test scores decrease for a time being in order to build the relationships that will ulitmately help students to be successful at the tests and more importantly in life.

What an interesting and novel concept for schools. Sounds very familiar to me. I am anxious to follow what her school does with this information.

So here's to building relationships and strengthening your child's problem solving ability this school year.

Talk to you soon,
Erin