Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
“As parents, my partner and I were looking for a different kind of educational experience in this city for our kids. It saddens me to see that the trends in education are away from the concept that learning can be great fun and towards solely the acquisition of knowledge. I think that learning should be fun. When you do that for kids, they will want to continue to learn as they grow up.
“While there are lots of strong schools in D.C., we wanted a place with project based learning that related to the real world. Before Two Rivers, there was only one other school in D.C. doing that, Capital City Public Charter School, which was not in this neighborhood.
“We organized a grass-roots effort with other parents to open this school. As they say, it really does take a village. There were a large number of people who gathered and volunteered their time and resources to get this started. It took a lot of time and effort, but we worked together to create this place out of love seven years ago.
“For me, it is a dream come true to be able to help found and run a school that has as its critical components, all the things that I care most about. I have always felt that it is important that kids learn more than just the nuts and bolts. For example, we live in an amazing city and part of our job at the school is to take advantage of those resources when teaching our kids.
“One of my favorite parts of what I do is standing at the door in the morning with the other administrators to greet the kids. It’s important for me because it reminds me of why we are here – to connect with these amazing kids. We want kids to be excited about learning and realize how fun it can be.”
Jessica Wodatch is the Executive Director of Two Rivers Public Charter School.

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I agree that’s one reason that I’ve given up trnyig to blog about peer-reviewed research. (The other reasons are that it is a lot of work, and that I was a bit cowed by the discussions after the Nature Geoscience discussion last spring.)It’s particularly bad for me, because my institution gets print issues of journals like Nature fairly late, and has little to no online journal access. I can read stuff in Science and in journals published by GSA. (Not sure if my AGU membership helps.) But EPSL? I would need to get a copy from the author, or from interlibrary loan.(I haven’t had the time and energy to read articles for blogg this fall, though. I did get a copy of an interesting-sounding Nature paper from an old friend, but I haven’t found time to read it yet. And Nature papers are really short )
Comment by CoupedeFrance — August 18, 2012 @ 10:33 am