Wednesday, March 7, 2012

C4T Summary Post 2

I was assigned Mr. Arvind S. Grover for our second C4T assignments. He is the Dean of Faculty at Grace Church School in New York City.

The first post I commented on was a video posting about racism. This talk by Jay Smooth is not really explaining the idea of racism nor is it about being racist versus not being racist, but it is explaining how to talk about race without worrying is someone thinks you are a racist. There are ways to discussing race and not worrying whether or not you sound racist. The whole point to his talk is to help people realize there is a huge in between space when it comes to being racist or not.

I was extremely impressed with the second post I read. He explained that at their school, which is now K-8, they are expanding to add a high school. Their plan is to add a new 9th grade class each where until the first 9th graders there graduate in 2016. This is planned to start in the fall of this year. He explained that he wanted to recruit faculty from Educon, which is a great conference full of great educators. He is instituting rules for the high that really going to improve the learning community at this school.

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