"This scientific book makes a significant contribution to the fields of education, teaching, and learning."
-Dr. Shirley Thorton, Former Asst. Superintendent of the California Department of Education
The American Educational Challenge: Disillusioned Teachers, Disempowered Parents, and Disengaged Students
By Dr. Melissa Cadet Watkins
This timely and inspirational book provides a framework that helps educators and policymakers confront and transform the public K-12 education system so that students, teachers, and parents flourish.
Over the past 40 years, the American K-12 public education system has declined, and the American millennial workforce has become one of the least educated in the industrial world. Reform is not enough. What skills can educational and community leaders, teachers, parents, activists, and policymakers use to reverse the declines and transform the public K-12 system?
In The American Educational Challenge, Dr. Melissa Cadet Watkins creates and defines an edosystem™ framework with 17 interpersonal, collaborative, and institutional competencies for eliminating K-12 educational systems pollution retarding student academic performance, and flourishing, which include:
1. Edosystem™ problem-solving mastery
2. Transformative data collection and analysis
3. Biased mindset removal practices
4. Reducing resistance to transformative system change
5. Collaborative budgeting, planning, and networking
6. Shifting the focus from adults to students
7. Edosystem™ management and continuous accountability assessment
You will learn from the experience and insights of the author, teachers, and educational leaders; explore transformational practices; and learn about effective edosystem™ monitoring and transformative feedback to reverse declines in American K-12 education.
