Tuesday, February 23, 2010

History is always changing

History is always changing. Whether is it because we find new documents, lose old ones or bury a remembering storyteller, the way we tell the story of our past changes every decade and sometimes more often.

My brother pointed me to some information about the constitution and its fragility. However, I wonder: surely the founding fathers who wrote it and included the framework for its change understood that it was not a stagnant document, that it would change and grow over the years.

Change is not intrinsically bad or good, it is merely change. What do you think? In what ways has change been bad for the constitution and for our country? In what ways has it been good and allowed us to grow into the nation we are now?

Monday, February 8, 2010

New Mentoring Book

Some of you ECE students wanted a book about mentoring, a concept which did not appear in our books. But now we have one. "Creating a Mentoring Culture" by Lois J. Zachary will hopefully provide you with the information you need to implement an develop teacher mentoring of future teachers. Come check it out.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

News from Eureka

Good news for all of the College of the Redwoods: We have officially been removed form accreditation warning. This means that the people who decide if a college is planning well for the future were impressed with out planning and confident that we are heading in the right directions. For more on this story, you can read the article featured in the Times Standard.