Agenda

Monday, February 9, 2004

 

"Education Choice:

Like an Iceberg, the Challenges Lie Below the Surface”

 

1:00 – 1:15 p.m.      Introductions of team and program overview

Small group activity:  “Making Choices”      Each table group receives a family scenario and discusses 3 questions.

 

1:15 – 1:30 p.m.      Overview of Education Choices (PowerPoint)

 

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.      Moderated panel representing various choices

                             Fellows introduce themselves to panelists

 

v      Dr. Sharon Banks, Traditional Public Schools

v      Dr. Eugene Cain, Public School Academies

v      David Kallman, Home School Perspective

v      Paul A. Long, Non-Public School Perspective

 

Three questions to be addressed:

1.      What can parents, guardians and/or caregivers do to assure that their child has a quality education experience?

2.      Assuming it is important for parents/guardians and adult caregivers to be more involved with the education of their children, what are the implications for a 0-12 education system when parents and adult caregivers do become “more involved”?

3.      If you were to design education policy for the future, how would it look? Would the education system be radically different than it is today? How? Where would you allocate your limited resources?

 

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.      Q & A with the Panel members

 

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.      Break 

 

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.      Small Group Activity revisited

                             “Making Choices” discussion and revisions

 

3:45 – 4:30 p.m.       Challenges of the Future --Allocating Resources

Consider: vouchers, raising cap on charters, re-visiting education financing/Prop A, adding home school regulations, full-day kindergarten, universal preschool, virtual education, and others

                                      “How will you spend your 100 units (10 dots)?

 

4:30-4:45pm            Wrap-up and Evaluations