Week 5 Personal Blog

Ray White

http://maverick253.blogspot.com/

  Identify whether distributive leadership is used for capacity building at your school site.

 Explain how it is being used. If it is not, describe how it could benefit your school site to apply this concept.

Well, I first had to find out what “capacity building” actually meant.  In the reverse reading I just had the chance to start reading the material.  As defined in the reverse reading, Evaluting Capacity Building in Education (from a study that does not seem to be representative of the demographics of any particular area of the country), capacity building are the inclusive efforts that help an educational institution realize it’s purpose and attain its mission statement.   

Yeah, no kidding.  But, it’s like listening to Steve Perry on CNN saying that the primary need is good, solid, teacher who teach possess modern teaching innovations and he never mentions the accountability nor the responsibility of the kids and parents.  This may be true, but I think it’s a lot of BS and I don’t mean Bachelors of Science. 

As a science person, one only manipulates one variable at a time to observe the results.  Here’s a variable to consider.  Kids, do you homework.  Parents, ensure your kids do their homework.  I have personally and unofficially interviewed so many teachers from general level, basic graduation required classes to AP.  I’ve personally taught the same spectrum I have read posts in these classes from all over the country and I see a constant in my previous statements. 

We have definitely learned much better teaching techniques in the past 20 years.  But the answer to capacity does not lie here; it lies in the laps of parents and students.  I’m really sick and tired of hearing about educational reforms and what’s wrong with education.  There is nothing wrong with education.  Of course it can always be improved but the foundation does not lie within the educational system.  Let’s manipulate the parent/kid variable and see what happens.  That would be valuable information.  Oh wait, that’s been done many times and the overwhelming evidence shows that students who have parents that show an active role in their education, not only do better on test scores, but attain higher levels of “thinking” other than memorization without concepts attached.

Capacity building?  Let’s show some fortitude and truly evaluate the equation and manipulate the proper variables.  I forgot.  We live in a sue happy society and it’s much cheaper to destroy a teaching career than it is to fight for what is right.