This road is under construction: Paving the way for the Learning Process.

                  My school has recently been chosen to adopt a new way of teaching and learning. The program is called RISC, or Re-Inventing Schools Coalition. RISC is a non-profit foundation established to transform education systems around the world. It is characterized by student centered performance. For the past year, our entire k-12 staff has been" abuzz" with different levels of acceptance for this program, myself included. Presently, there is no certainty that this program will  ever be totally "accepted" by our school system  After reading some information about how historically education has been moving from a focus on curriculum content to the student learning process, I am more convinced that the RISC program will indeed help us to move forward in that direction. Part of what we all do as educators involves, scaffholding. Scaffholding our students onto the next level, scaffolding our students into believing in their own learning ability. Scaffholding students to become empowered by their own investment into their own learning. It is in this way that students will place more value on their education. In the words of Bob Dylan, "Oh, the times they are a-changing."