Introduction to a Five-Article Series on Creating the Model School District

In a recent series of articles, I detailed the various media through which I intend to impel transformation of K-12 education in the Minneapolis Public Schools for the projection of a model of academic excellence at the level of the locally centralized school district.


The article that you are now reading initiates a new six-part series, beginning with this introduction and followed by five other articles, focused on my five-point emphasis for the projected transformation of K-12 education.


The overhaul of K-12 education at the level of the locally centralized school district, represented by the Minneapolis Public Schools, will be achieved with a focus on four points pertinent to programming;  and with attention to one point relevant to administration.


The four points for programmatic emphasis are as follows:


1) curriculum;


2) teacher training;


3)  skill remediation (for students lagging below grade level in math and reading);


4)  outreach to communities and families of students (of all demographic descriptors, right where they live).




The point for administrative attention (the fifth point of emphasis overall) is the following:


5)  dramatic reduction in staff at the central offices of the Minneapolis Public Schools, 1250 West Broadway.


I have covered many of these matters in past editions of my Journal of the K-12 Revolution:  Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Most especially, I give a 56-page exposition of curriculum overhaul in the August 2014 edition of this academic journal;  and a 71-page program for teacher training in the September 2014 edition. 


Readers interested in receiving copies of these editions of the journal, or subscribing to Journal of the K-12 Revolution:  Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota as an ongoing matter, should contact me via any number of available face-to-face or electronic means.  I am not difficult to find.


The articles that follow are meant to summarize the detailed programs for curriculum overhaul and teacher training that I have covered in editions of my academic journal;  and to give a clear account of the points relevant to skill remediation, community and family outreach, and bureaucratic paring.


In the next article as you scroll down on this blog, I begin with the first point of the five-point program for transformation of K-12 education >>>>>   curriculum.