The Thinking Stick » sputnik http://www.thethinkingstick.com Jeff Utecht - Educator, Consultant, Author Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:20:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Another Sputnik? http://www.thethinkingstick.com/another-sputnik http://www.thethinkingstick.com/another-sputnik#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:24:54 +0000 Jeff Utecht http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=696
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    • ]]>     A recent conversation with my wife about NECC, my frustrations with schools and education in general led to this.

    Me: I don’t know….I just don’t think it’s going to change.

    Wife: Of course it’s not going to change. People don’t change unless they have to or are forced to

    Me: I know…and we (the educational community) can’t do either

    Wife: It’s gonna take another Sputnik.

    Me: Ouch!

    Wife: Yeah…but think of it, when was the last time real change was made in education? I mean deep lasting change that affected the way schools were ran and what we taught and how we taught it.

    Me. True!

    Wife: It’s gonna take another event like that. It’s going to take some other country to do something and make America react before we see changes.

    Me: So what do we do in the mean time?

    Wife: Wait.

    Ouch!

    Have I mentioned how smart my wife is…and a school counselor which is another reason she knows about Sputnik

    Related posts:

    1. Change is hard
    2. Putting the I in change
    3. Systematic Change: Part 1

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