TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KCPS SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR AT-LARGE AIRICK L. WEST TOUTS TODAY'S COMMUNITY360 PROGRAM FOR STUDENT LEADERS!!!
TKC Note: Here's yet another hopeful announcement from Kansas City Public Schools about a program with a lot of potential . . . Check it:
Teaching Peacemaking, Connection & Empowerment
Envision a school where students take full responsibility for their choices and for their learning environment; where students mediate drama amongst themselves before it escalates, freeing up teachers to teach rather than referee. Envision a school where students organize resources in the community to support their schoolwork, freeing up counselors to guide rather than plead. And where students repair the harm created by the violation of school rules, freeing up administrators to lead rather than to police. Envision it.
A peaceful environment where students feel empowered and connected to each other is a necessary precondition of high achievement in K-12 education. But you can never police a community into being peaceful, connected and empowered. So either the members of that community will create peace through indigenous leadership and enjoy the sense of power and connection that comes from it OR they won't and external actors will try (and generally fail) to be substitute leaders. In the KCPS high schools we either give our scholars the tools to create a peaceful, empowering, connected school or we live with the consequences of not having done so.
It is in that spirit that sixty high schoolers will arrive today at Community360, a character and leadership development experience that empowers peer leaders to create peaceful, connected learning communities. Most of the participants are Kansas City Public Schools juniors and seniors who were recommended by their Principals to be delegates from their schools (delegations of 5-10 are coming from each of the KCPS' seven high schools).
The delegates who attend Community360 will engage in social justice/character development/personal leadership development followed by in-depth training in peer mediation, community organizing and restorative justice by expert practitioners in each field. Quarterly, day-long follow-up sessions will be conducted throughout the school year by Community360 staff to further support the leadership work of the students.
Working with our young leaders is a privilege that defies description. Being with someone as they awaken to the leader within and as they craft commitments that will lead to the healing of their communities is an experience that never wanes in potency. It is this opportunity that has compelled me to spend the next week of my life serving as the volunteer summer camp director with nearly 60 of our KCPS scholars at Community360.
If you become curious about what's happening here, contact Robyne Stevenson at 816.226.8246 or robyne@viablethird.com to arrange a visit (though we can only allow a limited number of visitors so as not to disrupt the flow of the work and many of our elected, community and business leaders have already signed up). Either way pray for me: it's guaranteed to be a transformative and inspiring (but exhausting) week!
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This piece of shit! No diploma, no job, yet president of the School Board. What the fuck is wrong with you people??
Phoney principal-selected student leaders didn't work fifty years ago when I was a student, and now that its a new idea, it still won't work. No idea is more overblown than leadership. Biology determines who the leaders are, especially the non-approved ones. You're either alpha or you're not, and pretending that you're going to empower the students is just BS. They are not in charge & they know it.
Who's paying for this?
Why do students need to feel empowered? Why do they need power? They should instead need to be submissive to authority.
Yes this kind of touchy feely stuff is what we need to build character and prepare students to not be afraid of all the hard and at times unforgiving work they are going to have to do throughout their entire lifetime.
Mr. Tony,
I beg of you to please sit down in that dark cave-like room of yours and rest a while. The heat has gotten to you. Drink water, not beer, now. A little later on go ahead and partake of a nibble of L D Swiss Roll.
If you weren't reeling from dehydration you surely would have reckoned that this KCPS item was just another load of crap from their catapult of hysteria.
Nothing like starting out the week with a good snort of Hopeium.
Why is this breaking news? How is this breaking news?
9:09 AM: news is always breaking here despite the fact it's already old news by the time it is breaking on TKC.
Teaching Peacemaking, Connection & Empowerment.....
How about teaching reading,writing, and arithmetic. Not sure if anyone here goes down to the east side much. But, it is a baby factory. Tons of studies have taught that the more educated a woman is the less kids she has. So, how about you concentrate on education...
I didn't know there was so much expertise and wisdom to be found in an anonymous blog comment section! Why doesn't everyone come here for the solutions to the world's problems?!
Miss sweetie Pie..?
L D swiss rolls,
YES MAAM! I'll have one!
Looks like Aric has a prison shirt on in that photo? That photo looks like it was taken in Potosi in the gathering room!.
It probably should have been taken there, he just has gotten caught (and released) yet. Give it some time..
Look at the picture, this NIGGER provided. There he sits, scowl in place, with an obvious attempt to intimidate. Just like every other NIGGER in Kansas City. Yes, just pass one on the street and if it doesn't rob you, it will, no doubt, give you this pleasant African face. What a totally useless race of primates.
Airick is pathetic. He is hustling dollars because he is broke. His live in frined Robyn Stevenson wrote this grant to get Airick some money because he has NO regular, steady or legitimate income - Airick stays losing because he is a loser with a inflated ego.
Grant from where?
"NIGGER GUY" has a small white insufficient penis!!!
Tony, do us a favor and post that picture of Airick right next to the picture of the accused shooter from Aurora: Then check out the same vacant stares featured in each picture.
7:01 is a cocksucker, with very little to offer the world in general, except his/her obsession with penis and penis like objects.
Question. Has this NIGGER ever had a "normal" job? Seriously, has it ever worked in a conventional position? All you NIGGER lovers should be able to jump all over this one..
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