Ron Ferguson’s talk at NSBA 4/21/12

Before I went to the NSBA conference I thought I was going to focus on the workshop topic of “community engagement” since that is one of the School Committee’s major goals, but it turned out I was compellingly drawn to more workshops in the category of “continuous improvement.” So after Soledad O’Brien’s keynote about how [...]

Reinhold Niebuhr quote

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. “Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. “Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. “No virtuous act is quite [...]

Increase Individual Access to Great Opportunities

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” ~ Albert Einstein “If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Victor, Jr….was an African American boy born to an unemployed teenage mother in the ghetto, and his [...]

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