CPCP group

Last night I met with my CPCP group. I was late getting to our meeting time b/c we've had camp meeting all week. They scheduled it for 8 and I arrived at 9. They filled me in when I got in there though. We are dividing up different sections that we think needs to be our own personal vision for the 21st Century School. My focus is going to be on literacy. My first thoughts on this when I heard about this project was how we had so many student this year to fail the reading comprehension test. Something needs to be done in our schools today and at homes and with parents to help children learn to read and understand better. The 21st century schools are all about having a more hands on approach to learning. Teachers and parents need to be more active in their own childs ability to read. Children need to be read even while their in the mother's womb to feel the repetition of different sounds. Then the more children are read to out loud the better they will become at reading and comprehending later on. Other areas we are looking at for our CPCP project are technology, parent/community involvement, demographic shifts/the changing classroom, and economy. We've created a wiki to help post all of our information that we found. The NCDPI vision has a bulleted format for their vision and I'm hoping that my group will do something like that. Until next time...