Establishing+Community

====Establishing community is a very important part or aspect of the Using Data process. I came across this web article from M. Scott Peck which I think is key to helping to establish the necessary culture/community to be successful with the Data Coach model. I forwarded this web link to TERC Using Data with their Twitter feed. It is called "[|The Rabbi's Gift]."====

====At least two other books will help animate my own thinking and move us toward where I think we have to go and they are from Parker Palmer. One is "A Hidden Wholeness," and the other is, "To Know as We are Known."====

===// "To be successful we must create this community that celebrates and accepts our differences. There must be a celebration and acceptance of our imperfections. Successful implementation of the model will lie to a large extent on our ability to remove pretense from our interactions with each other. That distance from teacher to supervisor and from teacher to staff and teacher-supervisor-staff to parent and ultimately to students will be the largest barrier to overcome, but once breached will insure our success." -- Donald Watkins, January 30, 2011. //=== = = =Transformational Moments -- by way of a tweet from @TercUsingData February 1, 2011.=

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Louisa May Alcott School in Cleveland and the importance of building community. media type="custom" key="8265296"