M. Dayle Record

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M. Dayle Record

Nonpartisan

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 3, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

University of Utah, 1996

Graduate

The University of Phoenix, 2011

Personal

Birthplace

San Bernardino, Calif.

Profession

Teacher

M. Dayle Record ran for election to the Kern High Board of Trustees to represent Trustee Area 2 in California. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Record completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

M. Dayle Record was born in San Bernardino, California. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1996. She earned a master's degree from the University of Phoenix in 2011. Record's career experience includes working as a continuing artist, as a teacher, as a poll manager, and in health care. She has served as a member with Friends of Great Salt Lake, with the Democratic Party, with the Democratic Women of Kern County, and with Change Leaders.

Elections

2020

See also: Kern High School District, California, elections (2020)

General election

General election for Kern High Board of Trustees Trustee Area 2

Incumbent Jeff Flores defeated M. Dayle Record in the general election for Kern High Board of Trustees Trustee Area 2 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jeff Flores (Nonpartisan)	66.6	16,692
		M. Dayle Record (Nonpartisan)	33.4	8,379

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Campaign themes

2020

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am M. Dayle Record M.A.Ed. I am a retired teacher and an Artist. I have worked in low income schools, and I have broad education and broad vision for education. I am running for the Kern County High School District Board, Trustee 2 position. I am not a career politician, this is not a stepping stone for me. I want to work for this large district, the largest school district in California. I want to make sure hiring practices are fair, discipline is fair. I want to see more counseling, and modeling of acceptable behavior and less disciplinary actions. I want to make sure education dollars work to educate all students of Kern County High Schools, with equal consideration for schools in low income areas.

I am good at big picture operations, and making sure that things work for everyone involved, from maintainence crews, food service workers, bus drivers, aides, teachers, administrators, so there is a culture of caring, security, and success among all workers in the district, and when they are on the job, they can fully focus on helping students learn, the curriculum, and also learn their success and safety, is why this school district exists. I want KHSD to model the successful behavior that will help students go forward in this changing culture.

I am an able team player, able to fully devote myself to the work at hand. I am observant and kind.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• I want KHSD to model the world we need to make. I want KHSD to create an observable, believable culture of equality and caring. In this culture, roughly half of the high school principals would be women, as it is six out of 26 principals in KHSD are men. This is not because women just got good enough to assume management positions, it is because of an ingrained culture of discrimination, based on gender. I want all students to see that we are a modern culture based on non discrimination of any kind, whether it is color, ethnicity, gender, or any other difference.
• I want to see KHSD on top of the California numbers for basic competencies, not just bumping the bottom of them. I want to see successful programs that help students learn, and graduate, in high numbers. It is not the fault of the students their scores are low, it is the culture around learning, and making learning universal to all our schools, that helps student recover from frequent moves, hunger, and the depredations of poverty, discrimination, fear of family security due to the political climate around immigration issues.
• I want to see a culture in schools of mutual responsibility for the learning, and social climate in schools. I want students to know their positive actions are remembered, and rewarded. I want them to have a role in keeping the peace in schools, and keeping an orderly and tidy environment around them. I want students to feel as protective and respectful of their teachers, as their teachers feel about them. Students need to realize this respectful climate they live in while they are at school, can go wtih them out into their lives. We need to model an active, reflexive, engaged, and caring society. We do this by disestablishing the dominator society with armed police in schools, and making sure students are counseled, fed, and educated.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about the role of the arts in schools, for helping students learn to design, plan and build beautiful and useful things. I want students to be digitally competent, with art training, because a lot of jobs will center in communications and illustration, or photography as hooks for information. If students are not aesthetically trained, then the digital world will be unpleasant to look at, and work in. Students should gain visual literacy, to go with their verbal skills. Creating creates a primary relationship with self, and students see their hands make things after they have thought things through. This is one of the most positive experiences students can have. Kids get varying messages from the world they inhabit, but the message they get from schools, and self, have to be positive to help them go forward, and establish good inner working relations.

I am passionate about how we model behavior for our students, how we create a society within schools that mirrors the best society has to offer, and this has little or nothing to do with income, but to do with a positive sense of identity, individual value, abiding skill sets, numerancy, literacy, and social skills. This nation has a long history of the value of the individual and their effort, their ability to change society for the good. Students need to see, in action, their good works are rewarding, and rewarded. Sometimes just pleasant normalcy, fairness, respect, security are rewards lacking elsewhere.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I look up to people who work for those in need. I admire the medical community, the frontline workers who have lost their lives during this pandemic. I admire those who work ceaselessly for justice, equality, fairness, and responsive government. I admire those who work for things outside their immediate surroundings, even in little ways, people who make life better for others even incrementally, good neighbors everyday deeds.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

My political philosophy is a collection of my own thoughts about what I have witnessed in my life, and my explanations regarding cause and effect. The speeches of Martin Luther King, helped me understand about the civil rights movement, and I lived in the American South as a child, so I knew from personal experience what I saw was morally wrong.

The work of Karl Jung, and the teachings of the Dalai Lama, have helped me understand how other cultures in other times, formulated bedrock theories that influence the culture of kindness in this world. When I was young I studied the words of Jesus of Nazareth, his teachings coming out of that time are remarkable, and admirable. The golden rule still stands with me, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Understanding creates more understanding, out of understanding comes compassion, and out of compassion comes remarkable acts of kindness, and the reflection of kindness among people is more powerful for good, than any other act.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Elected officials have to act for all their constituents, not just those of their political party. Basic life philosophy dictates some directions that politicians take, but School Board positions are non-political, allegedly. An elected official has to be honest up front what their political philosophy is, and without guile, act accordingly to their stated beliefs, and political policies.

An elected official has to be a good listener, has to be true to their stated beliefs, has to be honest in their dealings with resource allotment, has to be generous with their time spent in delivering what they aspired to, what they said they would do, look into the things they said they would.

Elected officials need to maintain high ground, a good public and private face, make sure it is the same face.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I am attentive to detail, and to the big picture the details paint. I am an expert communicator, and not easily bruised or bullied. I am able to compromise if it doesn't mean the loss of the effectiveness of the thing, or a loss to human rights. I am honest, and able to serve the needs of others, and keep a budget that works.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Core responsibilities are homework attendent to the functioning of the district, historically, what worked what didn't, and then what works now, what needs change, where does the district go to make the future good for everyone involved.

Doing the current homework that attends to the decisions to be made in meetings, and that means communication with those involved with bringing change, those involved with the grievance process, those who have requests for future change.

The major core responsibility is keeping communication lines open, but remembering who is actually responsible for policy, who has the expertise to help with decisions, and keeping in contact with other board members even if the discussion will be difficult.

Another major communication piece is with the educational community, listening to the news, listening to the views, and keeping them separate. The facts have to be present, and also who has brought the request, the concern, the need, and why it is deemed necessary, and by whom.

Another core responsibility is working with teachers to make sure their classroom needs are met, and their suggestions, and expertise inform the direction The Board takes in many matters.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like to leave a legacy of good education that serves the students and families, faculties, administrators, the staff, and their families and the vibrancy of the community. I would like to live in a peaceful, and healthy world, I helped to foster.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I remember Dwight Eisenhower's second election to office. The first polio vaccine, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, I saw him once, because my father. who was an OSI agent, was his guard, while he toured Berlin. But, I had a fifth grade teacher who taught us all about FDR and how he saved the nation during the depression.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

When I was 15. 5 years old I could be a lifeguard. So I lifeguarded every summer through high school. At one time, I sat in a doorway and guarded an indoor and outdoor pool, I pulled out 4-5 kids per day. There were hundreds of people there, only one lifeguard. Needless to say, I didn't sleep well.

What is your favorite book? Why?

I have a big book of TS Eliot's poetry and that has stayed the favorite with me, but I have read many a book, and I also love Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera," Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," and everything that Hemingway wrote.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

I would be, "The Martian" as in the film, only played as a woman, instead of Matt Damon.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Today it was a Dylan song, called, "A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall."

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

My old Doctor, now deceased, said to me that people say, "Life is great, but then bad things happen, but they are wrong." She then said, "Life is hard, and sometimes good things happen." I took that to heart, and I realize that being a military brat was hard, moving around was hard, living through the transition from the WW2 out of The Great Depression life, to the sixites, was a hard transition. I have in my life done what I could for people on an individual basis. Watching the web of life threatened on this world is a struggle for me, watching our collective plans for the world's destruction that is a struggle for me. I live simply, and it is a struggle at times, but I live according to my ideals, that is easy.

What is the primary job of a school board member in your view?

The KHSD Superintendent told me that he works for the Board. The Board takes the overview of all processes within the district, and makes sure things work like they should, for the benefit of students, families, the staff, the allotment of funds for facilities, maintenence, building, and salaries. The Board sets the tone for the district.

Who are your constituents?

My constituents largely live in East Bakersfield, with students in several high schools. Everyone in my area is a consitutent, even retirees, those without children, everyone has a stake in the successful education of high schoolers. The area has a broad range of individuals, from homeless, to wealthy. It is a concentrated area, just the heart of East Bakersfield. It is nested within the county.

How would you support the diverse needs of your district’s students, faculty, staff, and community?

I would support the diverse needs by making sure that disciplinary standards are the same for all schools, and expectations for success are the same for all schools. I would make sure there is enough counseling, and safety net to make sure students don't work at school hungry, distressed, and are not harmed or distressed at school. I would support diversity by making sure the official policies support the fact that diversity is what life is like, and we need to make cultural common ground at school, to model peaceful doings and success. I want school staffing to mirror the respect KHSD has for people of every type, and that the gender balance in management is good. We cant model success for young women, if women are not in positions of management at our schools. Currently there are 26 high schools, but only six female principals. The district has to model success for everyone. Women didn't just become good principals or managers. Without diverse individuals in all positions, every tier, then students don't see themselves reflected, (only in the glass ceiling.)

Bakersfield is a pretty tight town, with lots of civic engagement. There are plenty of groups, and service activities to attract students efforts.

How will you build relationships with members of the broader community? Which groups, organizations, stakeholders will you specifically target?

reach out to social conscious organizations, inroads with mental health awareness, green environmental, new technologies green businesses, paid internships, center for gender diversity, chamber of commerce. Sikh womens association,

Reach out to the other districts in Kern County to help keep the educational quality up, so that high school students arrive at 9th grade, on grade level. Figure out ways to make that happen, including mentoring from excellent high school students, to junior high students, especially in math, and issues regarding successful behaviours, a sort of service corps. I know there is a non profit in place to work on similar goals.

Find great health, and mental health services for students in socially traumatic situations.

Reach out to the public sector to demonstrate how to prepare for jobs that require specialized training, such as firefighters, EMTs, Social Work, Hospital work, tech based organizations. Ally with green industry, to plan for jobs in that sector. Locate businesses with paid internships in areas that hold high school student's interest. Reach out to the communications sector to help students prepare for work in communications, and corporate communications.

Building relationships has to be a natural function of seeking stakeholders who have positive offerings for students to work in industries that will endure in their lifetimes, and have positive impact planetwide.

Look for mentors in creative and design industries locally and in design elsewhere. Find the online sources that can blend with what we offer in our high schools.

What will you do to build a better relationship with parents in the district? What plans do you have to be inclusive of parental involvement?

Getting parents involved means we do well by their children, so they can watch their children shine. We need parents involved with students so students know their parents feel education is important, and important enough to them, that their children will bring their best to the task of learning, and give them hope for success in life. I know parents bring issues to The Board, and The Board has to listen, and respond, regardless of the difficulty of some communications.

Parents need to know that KHSD does not discriminate against their children, in disciplinary matters, or matters of cultural difference. We need to send positive messages about our success as learning institutions in their children's behalf, rather than criticism for behavioral issues. It has to be the policy of KHSD that we listen to all parents equally, and take suggestions at face value.

These things in themselves welcome parental involvement, and classroom involvement, activity involvement, is regulated, and will be difficult right now, due to the pandemic in progress. Parental involvement is important as a part of sharing the fantastic hope, service and energy that some parents can bring to activities, and various forms of expertise that help with the school's mission. With 26 high schools, I could attent PTA meetings in some sort of rotation. Then as a member of The Board, I could get a feel for the culture of the different schools, and the variances from area to area.

It is important to stay in positive contact with parents whose students are struggling at the time they are in variance with accepted district behavior protocols. Positive contact is important, for the parents to understand that the schools care about student success.

Do you believe it is important to intentionally recruit with the aim of diversifying the district’s faculty, staff, and administration? If so, what would be your policy to achieve this?

It is very important that students see a diverse staff that represents the realities of local populations. It is important they see gender parity, and universal kindness from all staff members regardless of any background, so students can see how they can get along in the world, with the many kinds of people who live on it. it is important that they learn trust at their schools, so they can take that with them, regardless of neighborhood strife, previous life, home life, it is the great gift of the universal American education system.

I am not a fan of quotas, because at times they get in the way of talent that comes along, however something has to change in staffing at this district, that declares by example that for the most part, 20 / 6, men are more able administrators than women, because this is not fact, but poses as fact by virtue of how the district hires or promotes people to position of principal. How could this district not have noticed this gross discrepancy?

One way to increase diversity in school faculty, staff, and administration is to offer proper examples. The other way is to uniformly educate a diverse student population, and steer them toward teaching, and administration as a future career. The natural result of this is to have a diverse pool to draw from, at hiring time. If only wealthier schools, students from well to do families really succeed, and their graduation rates are higher, then they compose the hiring pool for professional positions, while those that do not succeed and if that is because of uneven funding, or variances in the disciplinary process, the school to prison pipeline, is always open to students of color, rather than faculty positions,or staff positions of any kind.

My policy is that schools have to accurately represent the communities in this county, and careful hiring will remedy any discrepencies in the mix of individuals that work for the schools. This is the pill that will not agree with everyone.

What issues get in the way of quality education? How would you address these obstacles?

Allocation of funds and attitude about use of funding gets in the way in a district this large. School is many things to many people, and not all of these things get the job done for increasing graduation rates, education, getting the stats up for Kern High Schools, with regard to math scores, reading scores, and the whole rounded education students need to progress along their lives. It is obvious that some things we take for granted have to change, so there is a world to inherit. Then we have to figure what that world will be, in support of our young, who will go forward in it. We can't go about doing the same old ways we have done, and hope our graduates don't mind being a part of the destruction of their own future.

The new quality has yet to be defined, except it has to be green, has to be family friendly, has to be liveable, for our county. We have certain huge industries in Kern county and a quality education goes beyond preparing boys for oilfield work, or farm work for everyone. Quality education may seem frivilous to hungry kids, and their families, but quality includes the arts, social studies, real history, and the lesson of what it takes to thrive in the close environment of high school. That social knowledge combined with skills and understanding uptake prepares students, arms students for the world in which they are the principal actor, their own lives.

Discrimination of all kinds gets in the way of quality learning, because once the fight or flight mechanism sets off, nothing gets learned. If students are discriminated against daily, fearful of retribution, or threatened, and disciplined more because of bias, then that is in the way of all of the accepted goals of the American public education system. Having the police in schools is not good for learning, or discipline. Having more counselors, and access to social services that can help students works best to keep them in learning mode.

What constitutes good teaching? How will you measure this? How will you support advanced teaching approaches?

Good teaching is helping students learn the basics, while offering the limitless, unbound by personal fear, or prejudice. Good teaching is reliable expectations, fair application of resources, fair assessments, tailored lessons for students who have other learning styles. Good teaching involves creativity on the part of teachers, and a willingness to go the distance daily, and make a safe place to learn. Safety is that students know you are fair, you have their well being in mind, you are willing to go to your depths to engage them, that you are dogged in your willingness to engage them, that your assessments are accurate, and fair. Good teaching means you keep in contact with your students, and pick up on side conversations, know when students families are in disarray, or having hard time, and you tailor your expectations to help out emotionally and they know they can talk to you, or to a counselor. Good teaching involves many rewards for students, a constant flow of positive statements, willingness to clarify, willingness to intervene, to keep the room on task, good heartedness, good intention, and absolutely dead on classroom management skills, that are compassionate, fair, and within accepted guidelines. This means no scapegoating, no competition, no bullying from teachers. It means engaging students to help them understand what has gone wrong, and helping them to verbalize it, on paper, so they can map a way out of their not so great habits.

Good teaching is measured by classroom engagement, and how well students learn the core, and then the other disciplines that make schooling interesting. I support advanced teaching approaches, especially if they employ accountability, and if teachers are proficient in the areas they teach, so they can encourage students to go farther in that discipline, and find their innate interests that will help them create a life of their own. Sometimes it is one teacher, at a certain time that makes an entire life work.

What type of skills should students be learning for success in the 21st century?

Students need to learn a world of understanding, to live in the world to come, in fact that world is here. Kern county is literally a crossroads, and a cross cultural place very much like the rest of the world. Students need a model for international relations, because people of many nations are here, going to school here, and then will, in the next generation have made their mark on the culture of Kern County. Classes in language are important, bi-lingual or even tri-lingual education is necessary to happily and successfully work in Kern County.

Students need to learn about how to see the changes coming, so they are adept planners of their lives as they go on. They don't just need to hear what workforce needs will be, because someone wants to make some money, students need to learn they can influence how to influence their community to create a community that everyone will enjoy, this includes environmental issues, the air we breathe, what corporations want to put in the air and in the ground. Students need environmental education so they can watch out for their and their children's futures, their health, and preserve some of the beauty around them. Students need an understanding of civics and civic engagement, how to work for the things they want for their families, and their futures.

Students need to learn about health in general, how to stay healthy, how to feed children, and keep them healthy. They need to learn how to prepare food, and this can be done in classes and in apprenticing in their cafeterias, and other food preparation venues, so they can cook, they know about the economics of growing, and purchasing fresh food, and preparing it.

Success has to be a different thing than previously valued, it has to be in personal security, and satisfaction in the face of rapid change, and change that often flies in the face of predictions or prophecy. Students need to learn how to live on the earth, happily while still working in a new economy.

How might you improve the value of a high school diploma? What should a 21st century diploma reflect?

A 21st century diploma should reflect a broad education, with a specific area of interest already defined, with some internship already completed, and some college classes already completed, especially general education classes, that tend to be make up, for missing general education. Students should be able to negotiate, navigate, realize they can define their lives, that they have done the work to move into more adult living, and this world they enter should be happy to see them.

A 21st century diploma should reflect, that students have met American standards for a complete high school education and then some. Students should be expert communicators, good listeners, willing workers, willing to create for the sake of it, this, they should have learned via the culture of inclusion and learning they get to know in Kern County High Schools. The value of the diploma lies in the commitment on both sides to get it done. It should be a testament to the creativity of an education condinually in redesign, to meet the changes in the world.

The 21st century high school diploma should be like a treasure chest of all the combined skills of every teacher they ever had, the curriculum designers and the people with the world view that were able to influence curriculum design with the future in mind.

In what areas would you like to expand curriculum? For example, do you see a need for advanced technical training or apprenticeships? What sort of innovative programming would you advance if given the opportunity?

First of all, students need to be expert learners. Then they can get past the basics, and incorporate them into worthwhile interests that engage their further desire to learn, and expand into doing even remarkable things. The world is not going to get simpler, unless we work to make it so. If students have family enterprises, or if they have talents that interest them, then they should help find apprenticeships they have an interest in. One way to do this is to include in civics, courses that show how the world works, how all the mechanical parts we use daily without a thought, come to be in our cars, and toasters. Students should also know about our food supply how bread gets to our tables from start to finish, just how and why we plan to go to the stars, and what it will take to get on that course. If students don't see the components of this big world, they have little chance to pick out a piece of it, they want to engage with.

It is possible to have satellite technical bases for high school students, and transport to these areas for specific trainings. Some of these can be inside established businesses, but we make guarantees to parents, that only people who pass stringent security may have educational contact with our students. Satellite campuses, in junior colleges, or trade schools is one way to start students on a path aligned with their interests. Some creative endeavors like sound work for media, or performance, welding for the arts, or welding in general, have to take place in safe surroundings. There are ways to get students to their interests, so they are at work while in school.

There are production companies that offer side trainings for students with specific interests, and it helps students to know their interests are of interest to KHSD, and we can be student driven in some ways. An example is Black Rocket productions, that offers side training in digital media. Students see the future every day, our vision should include what they want.

What strategies or plans would you advance to ensure the schools are properly funded?

Free, fair, effective, public schooling is the gift that goes on giving. We spend a lot of money on things, that aren't nearly as vital as preparing our students to go forward. It should go without asking that schools will be funded, and will be effective, and the money will always be there. A combination of local, state, and federal funding keeps our schools open, and that must always be the case. Education is the backbone of our society, and will be increasingly so as life gets more complicated, and the difficulties of survival get more harsh.

My strategy is that school funding is non-negotiable, yet we will have to negotiate it perpetually and rationalize every change we want to make. We will hire the best negotiators to keep our schools public, and excellent, forward thinking, and open.

What principles drive your policies for safety in schools?

Safety in schools is important, first of all the physical buildings, the condition of floors, the efficiency of heating and cooling, has to be taken care of to ensure the safety of all who enter. The culture of the school is what keeps schools safe, the cultural will of the community to provide monies to hire adept teachers, administrators, counselors, food prep people, and drivers keeps schools safe. Making sure students know from the day to day fact, they will be treated fairly, and without discrimination, that their educational needs will be met, keeps schools safe. You can make the physical plant less vulnerable to attack, you can have automatic security systems, but it is the caring, and considerate, and effective work to provide education without prejudice that keeps schools safe. Teens have an inborne sense of what is fair, and what is not. Students that are not heard, not treated fairly, and who face threats at home or on the streets, often finally break at school. Hearing them, letting them know we stand with them, is one way to keep schools safe.

Finding help for students that need it, keeps schools safe, the breakfast program, the lunch program keeps kids safe, and ready to learn.

Managing the use of media in the school setting is another way to keep kids safe. Keeping the dialogue civil in class, and in the halls keeps kids safe. Having clear behavioral expectations posted, with fair follow up, keeps kids safe.

How might you support the mental health needs of students/faculty/staff?

As a teacher the first thing I did, on the first day of class, was to pass out a blank paper, and have the students write their names, and their class on it, then tell me, (all other things aside,) what they wanted to learn from me. I asked them to write what they wanted even if it was simply that they wanted an A. For the students that just wanted an A, I told them they did not have to be the worlds greatest artist to get an A, they just had to do the work, respect the lessons, make an effort, engage their creativity, and if they would do that, they would get an A. Everyone heard that dialogue about the A. For the other students who had specific interests, I logged in those interests by their student grade page, and I expected I would by the end of the year, cover what they wanted to learn. I made sure I did. I put all their responses together, to figure out some lessons that covered what they wanted to learn. At the end of the year, I brought out their papers, and we checked to see if I had done it.

Students need to know they are valued and heard. That is the one big thing we can do for their mental health, besides making sure the school culture supports good mental health for the student population, we do that by insisting on a supportive behavioural model. School counselors can work to understand the dynamic that is pushing students to suffer. We can connect with community outreach that supports the mental health needs of every kind of student.

Faculty and staff, need to set appropriate boundaries with the assistance of school rules, and classroom management techniques. Staff has to have good back up and training to make sure they are not victims in transport, or food service. Administration at the district needs to hear drivers about what really has gone on in buses when there is parent complaint, or even school complaint about district drivers. I have known of cases where high administration has intervened in behalf of drivers who are unjustly accused.

What role do you imagine technology playing in (and outside) the classroom in the future? How would you prepare the district for this?

Last spring the district had to jump right in on technology working outside the classroom. Now we have to figure out how that can help us deliver better education using this medium. For instance, much has been said about sending high school, and even junior high school students to school, early in the morning. If students can take a couple of online classes as a continuing part of their educational process, then high schoolers can get their sleep at last, and do class in the evening, for a couple of periods, or do class in a technical setting, in the evening, even as a part of a first work experience. I think that holography is going to play a role in performance training for musicians, and other artistic disciplines, and even some technical training can take place holographically, like prep before the real welding begins, or prep before other more technically complex work begins. Even communication classes can use this to learn about interview techniques, and teachers in a remote setting can share class training with other teachers in teams. So if one teacher has a great engaging style with one application, and then another has yet a different forte, they can share in teams.

Some college level courses with movement or hands on applications could also take place holographically, some lectures, or acting training could take place this way.

Students could utilize other math programs to see if they learn better with a different presentation, or logic model, depending on their learning style. So assessments could be the same, but the learning mode arriving at the assessment could be different. In math for student who speak another language, until they are proficient in English, they could learn math in their home language, and test out, in assessments that are less wordy. The story problems could be in a host of languages, thanks to translation programs that are much more on point than they have been previously.

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