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How Education Should Look Like From All Areas Of The Board

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In the beginning of our journey, it was clear that there were seven committee members that had seven different ideas of what personalizing education should look like. Visions from all areas of the board where created by our members. For example, there was talk about creating the perfect forest school, establishing a better form of democracy in education, and the debate of standardized testing belong in the public school systems. However, the main theme that we all had in common was our personal experiences with the lack of education being a priority for ourselves or a love ones in the past. It was also important that we made a difference in decreasing the academic expectations of teachers in some kind of way. The committee wanted to bring a refreshing way to the idea of partnership with teachers. This partnership would transform into a unique way of help students on their educational excursions.
When I review my time with my colleagues, I feel that my members would agree that I always came prepared to our meetings. During each meeting, I would hand write my own personal notes to be able to compare to our minutes, agenda and homework assignments that were posted every Thursday on Basecamp. I bought a different outlook to our discussion each week by address low income families in Colorado and how we could create personalization for families without financial resources.
Our committed spent almost two months or more on researching ideas and gathering information on projects

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