TACTics
Journal
This Week’s Issue:
(1) Small Steps Make a Path, Cal Halliburton
(2) Clouds in Creative Writing, Beverly Brown
(3) 5th Annual TOCFE
International Conference/First Annual TOCFE International Student’s Conference,
Cheryl A. Edwards
(4) From Beverly Brown
Editors’
Notes
(5) Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
CONNECTIONS
(1) Small Steps Make a
Path
From Cal Halliburton, Iowa, USA
It's time to
bring you up to date on my small activities for advancing TOC. I can't compete with the massive successes
that you are seeing elsewhere. Small
steps make a path.
1. The course description below currently
is offered through the Heartland Area Education Agency in Iowa. I currently have a dozen enrolled and hope
for more by the middle of June. The
class runs June 18-19 and there is an option to run a second one if this one
fills at 21. You can put it on the web
site if you like.
2. I'm meeting with a representative of
the Iowa Association of School Boards on Wednesday in the hope of including TOC
in their November conference. I'll let
you know how it goes.
3. I do plan to attend the conference in
Troy so sign me up!
4. I'm making application to make the conference
available for teacher pay through our local staff development program and I'm
advertising it to all teachers locally.
5. I'm sending the flier to what remains
of the New Iowa Schools Development Corporation— there is a small network of
contacts.
The class
I'm offering is the first two days of TACT with the cloud and negative
branch. I call it:
"Stop and Think!”
Have you
ever wondered why your students don't stop and think before acting? They may not know how. This is your opportunity to learn how to
think in a way that is finding outstanding success wherever it is used. Then you can teach your students. Have you ever wondered why people don't
consider the consequences of their actions and ideas? They may not know how.
This is your opportunity to learn how to teach them in a way that is
finding success even with the most incorrigible youth and gang members. Have you ever wondered how you could
challenge the thinking of people in a way that builds your relationship? This is your opportunity to learn how to do
it. Preschool leaders, classroom
teachers, counselors, engineers and corporate executives around the world have
been learning and using these thinking tools.
The Evaporating Cloud is a tool, which allows the user to examine and
resolve conflicts, problems, or decisions.
The Negative Branch assists people in overcoming their reluctance to
examine the consequences of their actions and ideas.
Look forward
to seeing you in Troy.
(2) Clouds
in Creative Writing
From Beverly Brown, Ohio, USA
My creative writing classes are in the process of
writing children's books. To begin the
process, I had them analyze children's books from the library by using a
cloud. This way they could easily see
the conflicts. Then the students had to
write a cloud for their own children's book.
I have found that students focused much quicker on their own book ideas
and have stayed on task better because they have a logical outline to follow.
Now we are
preparing a PowerPoint presentation of the students' children's books for an
elementary school in our area. I am
thinking about having the students share their clouds with the "little
ones" as well as the book. Or
maybe let the "little ones" write the cloud? I'll let you know what happens!
(3) 5th Annual TOCFE
International Conference/First Annual
TOCFE International Student’s Conference
Cheryl A. Edwards
“The best way to predict the future is to create it through
TOC."
TOC
for Education, Inc. presents the 5th Annual TOCFE International Conference and
the First Annual TOCFE International Student’s Conference!
Date: June 25-28, 2001
Location: Detroit, Michigan USA
Hotel: Northfield Hilton
5500 Crooks Road
Troy, Michigan 48098
248. 879. 2100
The
Northfield Hilton is adjacent to Interstate 75 at Crooks Road, Exit 72
Reservations: 1. 800. HILTONS
Ask for TOC for
Education’s special room rates.
Single
or Double Occupancy
Per night $139.00 U.S. + Tax (6% Michigan Sales Tax and 7%
Occupancy Tax). This rate includes
breakfast for two.
Transportation: Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW)
(4) From Beverly Brown
This quote crossed my desk today. I immediately thought of TOC!
"The
realities of learning are changing— it's not if, but when; not where, but how;
not inputs, but results." —Anonymous
(5) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
Cal
and Beverly, thanks for sharing! It has
been a pleasure hearing from you and we will see you soon in Detroit!
The
following is the only feedback that was received last week concerning the opening
of “attached files” being sent with our weekly TACTics newsletter:
Hi Kay,
Couldn't
open pdf file even though I have Acrobat 4.
If you can send a WORD doc file, that can be opened easily.
Thanks.
Umesh
Well,
Umesh, we were really hoping to send TACTics as file that Mac and PC
users would be able to read, which is a pdf file. If you have Adobe Acrobat, you should be able to open it.
Please
feel free to share with us. Send by
mail to Cheryl A. Edwards, 2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville, MI 49719,
USA. Or, send hyperlink to
<redwards@sault.com> or <bucknek@earthlink.net.
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view TACTics in its intended formatting and to read previous issues,
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