Share Your Success!

Looking back over the articles I have written over the past months made me realize that ideas may be wonderful, but they are not reality. If anything is going to change, someone is going to have to do something.

I live in Georgia. We are ranked near the bottom as far as education is concerned. Georgia is not the place for this to happen. We actually do have the freedom to have what is referred to here as charter schools. That means that interested parties can get together and, using tax dollars, form a school around an idea or ideal that they believe will improve the educational environment for the students.

The problem with this is, believe it or not, the local school boards have to give their permission. Do you see that happening very often? It doesn't. The state is now looking at ways to allow these groups to create their charter schools with the permission being given at the state level.

I am sure that there are other areas in the country, especially those ranked at the top of the scale, who know what success is and what is needed to create it. What I would like is for those who are involved in schools like that to contact me. I would like to follow the creation of such a school or school system and chronicle its challenges and successes.

I am hoping that by doing a series of articles on different schools and school systems, we can begin to examine what works. What I would like to see happen is for school systems that are not succeeding to copy the patterns of successful systems.

The point is, this is one thing I need help to do. I can't do it alone. Your school may utilize strategies I have never even considered. I would love to hear about it. If you contact me, I want to let you know that anything I publish will be submitted to you and/or the school system for prior approval. I will want to make sure that I have represented your procedures properly.

I would like to share your stories with other readers who might learn from your experiences and be able to incorporate them into their own systems. Together, we can help those interested in improving their schools to do so.

I am also interested in hearing from you about publications or web sites that might be of interest to those wishing to investigate other methods of teaching that are not mainstream but have demonstrated success.

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