Re: Sustaining Training & Support
Mario Zinga (zinga@pps.pgh.pa.us)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:47:32 -0500 (EST)
Here in Pittsburgh, the school district is under severe
fiscal pressures and unable to add new support staff for Internet
activities. This is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing comes in the
fact that teachers will have to take the lead and become learners again.
The curse is that institutionally the changes or shifts wont get reflected
in the bureaucracy making it harder to get long-term support.
The question is how do we bridge between the learning and dynamics
happening in the classrooms and the inability of the organization to pay
attention? Both groups are needed. I suspect that this is the first time
that the classroom is taking the lead, lets not make the same mistakes the
institutions have made in the past.
-Mario Zinga