Final Comments

This is the first time I’ve experienced this type of conference and I can’t believe I’ve made it through this without having a scheduled break or lunch. I will not be able to have a regular meeting again.

I had two a-ha’s. One that was demonstrated here. We had experience first and then the explanation later. We should think of including that in our educational process. The second is that there is no one program nor should we try to create one. The personal learning plans has an obvious place in education. We need to have personal learning schools. The innovations we get from learning from each other. Having the state trying to all look like is a mistake.

I think we need to educate the whole child and that includes all of us. That’s the goal.

Michael: I would like to mention that since I've been doing this work for 20 years, I learned that accelerated learning includes experience first, label second. Most of education has a process of label, label, label, and then maybe have an experience.

Rich:  Thank you for sharing your most precious resource which is your time and your brains. Did we write a plan? No, but we got tremendous thought here. You’re going to get an email that will ask you to help us in crafting the verbiage and this process. We’re hoping to do it electronically. We value your input that’s why you’re here. NDE will not do this in isolation. We need to do the right things for the students in Nebraska. A big thanks to all of you.