Caz
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 Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:02 am Post subject: TeachFirst Programme Supported by Sachs, Morgan, etc |
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Posted by Caz Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:35 pm
The TeachFirst programme recruits teachers for schools, and is supported by the following:
http://www.teachfirst.org.uk/what_is_teachfirst/support_us/current_sup porters
| Quote: | Teach First's partners and supporters provide essential financial, in-kind and advisory support, enabling us to make a real difference to the schools which need us most.
Founding Supporters
Association of School and College Leaders
Business in the Community
Capital & Provident
Capital One
Garfield Weston Foundation
London First
McKinsey & Company
National Association for Head Teachers
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
SHINE
The Sutton Trust
Supporting Partners
Platinum
Accenture
Canary Wharf Group
Deloitte
Esm�e Fairbairn Foundation
Gatsby Charitable Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
HSBC Global Education Trust
JP Morgan
The Mercers' Company
Gold
Citi Foundation
Manchester City Council
Portland
UBS
Silver
Cadbury Schweppes
City of London
City Parochial Foundation
Credit Suisse
Jack Petchey Foundation
Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs
LCCI Commercial Education Trust
Lehman Brothers Foundation Europe
Promethean
The Rank Foundation
Steve Garnett of salesforce.com
The Westminster Foundation & Grosvenor Trusts Bronze
ABN Amro
Capgemini
Clifford Chance
CMS Cameron McKenna
EMI
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Fujitsu
GlaxoSmithKline
Google
The Haberdashers' Company
HSBC Private Bank
The Merchant Taylors' Company
Microsoft
NM Rothschild & Sons
RM
salesforce.com
Shell
Slaughter and May
The Young Foundation |
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Posted by Caz: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:42 pm
Shirley McCune states that schools are the tool to change society. With those above supporting the TeachFirst Programme, I guess that our society is being changed according to how the likes of how those listed above, would like.
http://www.learn-usa.com/relevant_to_et/ctd03.htm
| Quote: | Who Is Dr Shirley McCune?
For those doing research into education reform, aka systems education, Dr Shirley McCune entered the scene in 1989 when she was a guest speaker at the 1989 Governor's Conference on Education called by President George Bush, Sr, and held in Wichita, Kansas.
Researchers were, and still are, aghast at what McCune had to say at that conference, and further aghast that governors in attendance applauded her.
| Quote: | What is happening in America today and what is happening to Kansas in the great plains is not simply a chance situation in the usual winds of change. What it amounts to is a total transformation of our society ...
... So we have to anticipate what the future is and then move back and figure out what it is we need to do today. That's called anticipatory socialization or the social change function of schools ...
... You have to understand the breadth of the task that's before us. You cannot think about restructuring of education without understanding that our total society is in a crisis of restructuring and you can't get away from it. You can't go into rural areas, go into the churches, go into government, you can't go into business and hide, for what we are facing is a total restructuring of the society ... |
At the time of this speech, McCune was the Senior Director of Mid Continental Regional Educational Laboratory (McRel) — one of ten regional laboratories under contract to the U.S. Department of Education. At this time—1989—McCune's resume included work with the National Education Association (NEA), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and the Kansas State Department of Education in developing strategic direction for Kansas schools in the Schools for the 21st Century program. She also owned a company called Learning Trends, based in Aurora, Colorado, and later in Washington, DC.
Next, we find McCune at Arizona State University as a Research Associate developing School-to-Work programs.
And, as of 1997, McCune was listed as Educational Liaison for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia, Washington, working with her friend, Dr Terry Bergeson. By all indication, the position was made for McCune.
Also, in 1997, McCune is listed as a contributing author to a publication put out by The Mid-Atlantic Consortium, Inc, Chevy Chase, MD, and the American Youth Policy Forum and National Education Association, both of Washington, DC, called "Educate America: A Call for Equity in School Reform".
McCune has had extensive contact with Washington state. In 1994/95, McCune held two contracts with the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. The first, in 1994, was for the purposes of providing ...
research and writing assistance and state education reform policies and practices to the Commission on Student Learning; and advise on equity issues in the development process.
The second, in 1995, was for the purposes of assisting ...
the Commission on Student Learning staff and the Subject Advisory Committees with performance issues related to Goal I and mathematics and with development of Goal II Essential Academic Learning Requirements.
Both of these contracts were issued to McCune under the name of her company, Learning Trends of Washington, DC. As both contracts were initially under $10,000, they were awarded to McCune without having to go through the competitive bidding process.
McCune was also a consultant to Governor Booth Gardner during the time of the Governor's Council on Education Reform and Funding (GCERF), and the subsequent writing and publishing of the GCERF document, Putting Children First.
In October 1989, McCune addressed teachers in the South Kitsap School District, Washington State. Some of her comments were reported by Terri Minteer, Staff Writer for the Bremerton Sun on October 14, 1989.
When you walk in the building, there's a row of offices. In one are drug counselors. One is for social security. Another, family and child psychologists. Yet another has a doctor and nurse who do well-child exams ...
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... There's a child-care center, and tied into it are classes for teenagers where they learn the importance of child nurturing skills ...
... These are "community learning centers" not just schools ...
... Schools are no longer in the "schooling business," but rather in "human resource development" ... |
As far back as 1983, McCune, along with Terry Bergeson, were on the Advisory Board of New Horizons for Learning, an organization based in Seattle and owned by Dee Dickinson. New Horizons for Learning is very New Age in thought and practice, touting the writings of many New Age authors including Beverly Galyean. Dickinson was a member of President Bush's (Sr) Task Force on Innovative Education.
The New Horizons for Learning website carries a piece, written by McCune, entitled "Creating the Future".
McCune has authored and co-authored books on education reform and related topics. In 1986, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), founded by the National Education Association (NEA), published a book written by McCune entitled Guide to Strategic Planning for Educators. The book is not intended for public consumption ...
This creative management process [strategic planning] is powered by the basic human drive to solve problems—to eliminate discrepancies between what is and what must be. (page v)
The synthesis of technology with educational tasks opens new possibilities for more humanistic schools and educational systems. (p 23)
Change must be manifested at the local level and must be wanted—people must view change as their own and feel that it will help them achieve the future they value and desire. (p 29)
Transformation is the process of shifting our basic assumptions and reorganizing our views of the world, our goals, and our behaviors. (p 32)
Strategic planning is a rational planning process, but it has strong psychological effects on an organization and the people involved in the process. (p 32)
If time is taken to involve affected and interested parties (stakeholders), the plan will become their plan, implementation will be accelerated, and the potential for future conflict and disagreement will be reduced. (p 37)
Information about their [stakeholders] perceptions and expectations must be gathered carefully. It should be collected after stakeholders have had some opportunity to understand the larger societal changes and the options open to schools. (p 45)
Providing people with data before asking for their opinions and ideas about what schools should do leads to different responses and outcomes. (p 59)
... as a representative sampling. This book was used as the textbook for a class in Strategic Planning at Drake University, Adult Education Graduate Degree Programs, Spring Semester, 1997.
In 1996, McCune co-authored the book The Light Shall Set You Free with Dr Norma Milanovich, both claiming to be channelers for the Ascended Masters. The book is definitely an inside look at the beautiful side of evil, giving an insightful look into the religion practiced by so many advocating transformation to systems governance.
Resource References:
McCune, Shirley; Guide to Strategic Planning for Educators; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Alexandria, VA; 1986.
McCune, Shirley and Dr Norma Milanovich; The Light Shall Set You Free; Athena Publishing; Albuquerque, NM; 1996.
Minteer, Terri; "Blueprint given for schools of the future"; Bremerton Sun; Bremerton, Washington; October 14, 1989.
On the Beam; official newsletter of New Horizon for Learning.
Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; Washington State; Olympia.
Office of Financial Management; Washington State; Olympia. |
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Posted by Caz: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:54 pm
* From: www.cpexposed.com
Common Purpose (CP) is a Charity, based in Great Britain, which creates ‘Future Leaders’ of society. CP selects individuals and ‘trains’ them to learn how society works, who 'pulls the levers of power' and how CP ‘graduates’ can use this knowledge to lead 'Outside Authority’.
Children, teenagers and adults have their prejudices removed. Graduates are ‘empowered’ to become ‘Leaders’ and work in ‘partnership’ with other CP graduates. CP claims to have trained some 30,000 adult graduates in UK and changed the lives of some 80,000 people, including schoolchildren and young people.
But evidence shows that Common Purpose is rather more than a Charity ‘empowering' people and communities’. In fact, CP is an elitest pro-EU political organisation helping to replace democracy in UK, and worldwide, with CP chosen ‘elite’ leaders. In truth, their hidden networks and political objectives are undermining and destroying our democratic society and are threatening ‘free will’ in adults, teenagers and children. Their work is funded by public money and big business, including international banks.
* Common Purpose is associated with Teachfirst, and Teachfirst works in partnership with ARK.
* Teachfirst offer their ‘ambassadors’ a one thousand pound discount to go on Common Purpose courses. http://graduates.teachfirst.org.uk/Ambassador-benefits.html
* ‘Teachfirst’ works in partnership with ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), NCSL (National College for School Leadership), ‘Teaching Leaders’ and ‘Future Leaders.’
http://www.teachingleaders.org.uk/our-partners,28.html
* Teachfirst ‘headhunts’ graduates and gives them 6 weeks teacher training, after which they are placed in schools, with a Teachfirst mentor, gaining qualified teacher status after two years. So, plenty of ‘guidance’, from the likes of The Goldman Sachs Foundation, along the road to becoming one of the ‘future leaders’. (The Goldman Sachs Foundation (bankers) are working with Teachfirst.)
http://graduates.teachfirst.org.uk/Training--Development.html
| Quote: | Starting on Sunday 29th June 2008, the Summer Institute is an intensive six-week residential course on which you will work and live with your fellow Teach First participants. The first three weeks are held in London, the Midlands or the North West, depending on the location of your placement school, and then all Teach First participants come together for the final three weeks at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury.
Your initial teacher training (ITT) takes two forms: subject studies and professional studies. |
However, students get no experience of being inside schools, and wouldn’t recognize typical or atypical behaviour in a school.
* Supporters of Teachfirst include bankers and public money: http://www.teachfirst.org.uk/what_is_teachfirst/support_us/current_sup porters
* One Teachfirst ambassador works as ARK’s recruitment officer, http://www.brent.gov.uk/commins.nsf/4858a1fb6d81b48880256d93007b91a9/7 280bdffba922852802572c80057fa9b/$FILE/Sponsor%20for%20Wembley%20Academ y%20App%204.pdf
Alexia di Marco, Recruitment Manager
| Quote: | | Alexia graduated with a first class BA (hons) degree in Anthropology from the University of Durham. After spending two years teaching at Bethnal Green Technology College, she is now a Teach First ambassador. |
The position of recruitment officer is a key position in making sure ARK gets the type of staff which suit Teachfirst and ARK and having a Teachfirst Ambassador in this role is ideal.
* Burlington Danes Academy, after four years with four Head Teacher changes, now has as Head Teacher Sally Coates, a Teachfirst devotee. http://www.teachfirst.org.uk/DownloadRepository/113835932646.pdf
Since ARK has a clause in the funding agreement which states that ‘The core subjects of the National Curriculum (being Mathematics, English and Science) must be taught to all pupils in years 7-11 except where, in the opinion of the head teacher, it is inappropriate for an individual pupil or groups of pupils to be taught one or more of those subjects’, presumably ARK means for students to be removed from subjects; for this to come about at the Head Teacher’s discretion, then clearly ARK needs to have a Head Teacher who conforms to their requirements, that they removed students from core subjects. It seems they may now have a compliant HT, devotee of Teachfirst.
* ARK School, Burlington Danes Academy, according to staff who have resigned, is staffed by approximately 40% Teachfirst teachers, who take lighter timetables and easier classes on account of their inexperience. Consequently, older, more experienced teachers get heavier timetables and more difficult classes. Most have left.
* Burlington Danes has also one member of staff at the Teachfirst ‘c*** Ups’ Club: http://graduates.teachfirst.org.uk/c***-up-clubs.html
* Andrea Berkeley, Head of Professional Development with ‘Teaching Leaders’ (working in partnership with ARK) has associations with Tavistock.
From: http://www.teachingleaders.org.uk/team-profiles,10.html
| Quote: | | She is an associate consultant of the Institute of Education, tutoring and facilitating on NCSL senior leadership programmes and an executive coach with Tavistock Consultancy Service and Right Management |
* NCSL (working in partnership with ARK) quotes Kissinger, with respect:
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/media/1CB/30/leadership-and-innovation-in-the-t ransformation-of-schools.pdf
| Quote: | Henry Kissinger believes that “the present generation has the power to tap into astonishing amounts of knowledge on any subject but no ability to integrate it into a knowledge of the past and no ability therefore to project it meaningfully into the future” (cited by Sheridan, 1999,
p 274). |
* NCSL course (Leadership Pathways) quotes Kissinger:
| Quote: | | 'Before I served as a consultant to (President Kennedy) I had believed, like most academics, that the process of decision making was largely intellectual and all one had to do was to walk into the President's office and convince him of the correctness of one's views. This perspective, I soon realized, is as dangerously immature as it is widely held. |
This course (Leadership Pathways at NCSL) also quotes Paul Hersey:
Dr. Paul Hersey. The Situational Leader: | Quote: | 'Leadership is simply the process of influencing someone to do something that he or she might otherwise not do. Leadership is influence.'
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So, ARK works closely with Teachfirst, which has all the hallmarks of being a ‘common purpose’ style institution, training future leaders and funded by public and private money. Teachfirst offers its graduates discounts to do Common Purpose courses. ARK also works in partnership with ‘Teaching Leaders’, which has senior staff with ties to Tavistock.
Concerns with respect to Tavistock: : http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2008/06/are-republicans-next-nazi-par ty-see.html
And Kissinger: http://www.bilderberg.org/kissing.htm |
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