Hannah Emmanuele
According to author and New Milford High School Principal Eric Sheninger via Huffington Post:
There is another type of control that we need to acknowledge that is prevalent in virtually every school in the world. This is the control fostered by administration and teachers as to how learning should, and will, be structured. This hits home for me on many fronts, as I was guilty of this years ago. We are often our own worst enemies as we work hard to control what students can do in school or classrooms. This stems from the fact that we don’t want to give up control. Compliancy had worked for so long, and quite frankly we don’t trust students or even our own teachers. What we don’t know and understand we fear. So we react by trying to control every facet of school structure, function, and learning…..
If we truly want to prepare the next generation of thinkers, doers, inventors, and change agents we must give up control, trust students and educators, and work to develop a better system that will produce desired outcomes.
Amen.
