"I want you to be the director of my college. You make class more interesting."

This book is ready for photocopying. You can also get the free ebook from our OneDrive account. TINYURL.com/BoiseWorkbook Instructions: Print or photocopy pages 9-70 and put these pages on walls in front of students. Collect their comments and send the commentaries to TrintaAnos AT live.com We'll include the commentaries in the next edition of this workbook. The lecturing by teachers is boring us and leaves emotional scars in the minds of students. The students are handled like sheep. School is a prison for students. We develop a distaste for learning. We long for the time to pass, and we wish for school to simply be over. Josephine Lopez Liberty Academy Boise Central High School (written before the transformation of our school into five academies) =========== Letter to teachers, parents and students This collection of quotes and commentaries is a workbook. Our teachers at Boise Central High asked us to read these quotes. We wrote many comments and those comments went into a report. Then we sent that report to our school district's superintendent, Dr. Coberly. Dr. Coberly wrote back to us and said that he would take these suggestions to the school board. Four months later, our school was broken into five academies. We went from a big school of 600 students to five smaller schools, each with about 120 students each. This followed the Big Picture school model from Rhode Island. You can read about it at BigPicture.org. We like our small academies. This workbook is a way of saying "thank you" to Dr. Coberly and the Board of Trustees for our schools. We collected quotes and made this workbook for students and parents and teachers to use. Have fun and send us your comments so we can add your commentaries to our next edition. Fred Banks, class of 2017 trintaanos AT live.com ======== We have formatted this workbook as 8.5 inches by 11 inches so it can be printed easily by your teachers and parents. The final copy of the book should be done in a smaller size, we believe, so that students and parents can carry the book with them. Put the quotes in front of students. Invite students to make comments about the quotes. Then type the commentaries into the workbook. Distribute the workbook to the district supervisor and wait for changes in your school. It worked for Boise Central High School. Our five academies are called Liberty, Peace, Unity, Equality, and Justice, named after the academies at Big Picture School in Providence, R.I. Our five academies are called Liberty, Peace, Unity, Equality, and Justice, named after the academies at Big Picture School in Providence, R.I. You can photocopy pages 9 to 69 and put the pages around your classroom. Who knows what students will respond to...? To the students... What are your comments about these quotes? Quotes from Neil Postman ======= Now, what is it that students do in the classroom? Well, mostly they sit and listen to the teacher. Mostly, they are required to believe in authorities, or at least pretend to such belief when they take tests. Mostly they are required to remember. They are almost never required to make observations, formulate definitions, or perform any intellectual operations that go beyond repeating what someone else says is true. They are rarely encouraged to ask substantive questions. permalink Neil Postman Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969) Here is the challenge to the students at Boise Central High School. Can you put this quote into words that my grandmother will understand? COMMENTARIES BY STUDENTS GO HERE Explain your thoughts (This shows you how the book is laid out) Send your comments to TrintaAnos AT live.com