PrESS Network Mission Elements
Let's begin to compile a list here of what we're about as an organization: What are our beliefs? What do we do? What do we hope for? What are we working toward?
As you consider your own personal contributions to this task, please review previous posts (listed in the archives on the right), which contain the thoughts and ideas shared by Adam and others.Please feel free to post your comments for all to read under the thread: PrESS Network Mission (listed on the right).
As you consider your own personal contributions to this task, please review previous posts (listed in the archives on the right), which contain the thoughts and ideas shared by Adam and others.Please feel free to post your comments for all to read under the thread: PrESS Network Mission (listed on the right).
posted by adam at 2:22 PM
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I believe we can be committed to service, progressive principles, and the return of humanistic teaching to our field.
Service to the world, our community, schools and our fellow brothers and sisters.
Progressive principles, which help to form a foundation for school reform. 1)The respect for diversity 2)The support of critical, socially engaged individuals (Dewey used the term intelligence)
Both, service and progressive ideals work together to support the return of humanistic teaching to our field (see; C. Rogers, A. Maslow)
That’s a beginning – much more to share and to do!
Thanks, Jon, for these critical elements for our mission: service, progressivism, and humanistic teaching. Perhaps as a foundation to these principles, I would add the element of "community." Our mission should include a constant journey toward connectedness--with each other, with our students/clients, and with other progressives. Having said this, it will also be important to constantly seek to expand our community, dialogically engaging and sharing our ideas with others (which will take courage): fellow teachers, professors at conferences, church friends, family, neighbors, service partners, etc.
The PrESS Network is a critically-engaged, hopeful, and supportive voice for change. Its members are dedicated to affirming the basic rights of children and families who are disenfranchised by an unjust socio-economic structure. This empowering partnership seeks to facilitate system-wide change through respect for social difference, humanistic teaching, service to others, transformative dialog, and an ever-evolving journey toward connectedness.
My daughter, grandson & I attended the "ONE Rally" today @ Heine Brothers." There were perhaps fifty people standing in the rain to hear the message of fighting AIDS and POVERTY, both on a world-wide scale. Now I'm wearing an armband and am a litle more informed. This is a start towards activism.
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