TACTics
Journal
A Publication for and by TOC
for Education Practitioners
September 13, 2002
In this week’s issue:
Connections
(1) TOCFE Web Page, Kathy Suerken
(2) TOCFE Comes to Nigeria!, Kathy Suerken
Readers’ Feedback
(3) Zzippi Margalit, Israel
(4) Denise Meyer, USA
(5) Barbara Riester, USA
(6) Philip Bakker, Netherlands
Editor’s Notes
(7) Cheryl A. Edwards
CONNECTIONS
(1) TOCFE WEB PAGE
From Kathy Suerken
TOCFE is very grateful to Rami
Goldratt for creating such a world class web
design. This task required not
only a lot of talent but also a lot of time.
Thank you Rami! As he is moving
on to other projects, I had to look for a
replacement who needed three
characteristics:
1. Technical expertise
2. Willingness to do a lot of
work as a volunteer, and
3. A spouse who doesn't mind
family time spent on TOCFE.
Guess what? The person I found
not only is a volunteer extraordinaire but I
can vouch for this person's
technical know-how inasmuch as he built our first
computer on my dining room
table! In addition, he even taught our daughter
how to program her own computer
games. Yes, John Suerken has volunteered!
As to whether or not, his
spouse will allow him to spend a lot of
family time on TOCFE is a
question I bet you can answer without my help!
In the meantime, TOCFE thanks
John for learning the Flash program as well
as updating and editing existing files. Let us know <ksuerken@tocforeducation> if you find any “bugs”—things don't download or link correctly. Keep visiting the site—he promises to keep it refreshed!
(2) TOCFE Comes to Nigeria!
From Kathy Suerken
A TACT/TOC seminar will be
facilitated by Francois Moll in Lagos, Nigeria
from September 30 - October 4,
2002. The seminar is being sponsored by
Accelerated Learning Systems
Nigeria and will be taught to over 50
teachers and administrators.
Nigeria is the 10th most populous country in
the world.
READERS’
FEEDBACK
(3) Dear Emmy,
I've read your article (“Using Theory of Constraint—Of
Clouds, Conflict, and College
Classrooms,” by Emmy Stark
Zitter, TACTics, August 30, 2002) with much curiosity;
thank you for the analysis!
When I tried to understand why I was
connected to Zitkala Sa's
conflict, I realized that we don't necessarily
need to meet such extreme
differences between cultures in order to feel
pain and to grow. I see such a
conflict in every procedure of forming one’s
identity.
Yours,
Zzippi
(4) I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Emmy Stark
Zitter's use of the
cloud in a story about Native
American Indians (“Using
Theory of Constraint—Of
Clouds, Conflict, and College
Classrooms,” by Emmy Stark Zitter, TACTics, August 30, 2002). I
would like to use some of it in
a newsletter that I publish to spread the TOC
knowledge.
Denise Meyer
(5) What a great journal this week (TACTics, September 6, 2002)! I'm going to
use it in its entirety as a
preview with non-TOC educators to help create
buy-in.
Barbara Riester.Assistant
Director, Auxiliary Services
Director, VMI Center for
Economic Education
(6) Hello Cheryl,
In the TACTics of August 23 rd , I read that you were frustrated
about not
being able to read the report
on the 2002 conference from Alejandrina
Gonzalez de Garza, TOCFE
Director in Mexico. Please don't be. Here's a
translation, made by using a
translation service on the Internet at
<http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr>.
This way I hope I'm meeting your need!
:-)
Best regards,
Philip
EDITOR’S NOTES
(7) Another Note of Appreciation
From Cheryl A. Edwards
I am always so appreciative
when one of our TACTics readers takes the time
to offer some help or sends in
a response to one of our concerns.
Phillip, like a true teacher,
you have met our “needs” in two ways. First, you
helped with a concern we had at
TACTics, and second you didn’t just give the
translation, but you shared
your resource for getting the translation.
Thank You, Philip for being
committed enough to TOCFE and TACTics to take
your valuable time to share.
So readers, if you are like me
and would like to read Alejandrina’s article
check out the Internet site
Phillip has shared with us.
Send your responses, applications
of the thinking processes, lessons,
announcements, and etc. by mail
to: Cheryl A. Edwards, 2253 S. Hill Island
Rd., Cedarville, Michigan
49719, USA. Or send hyperlink to
cedwards@cedarville.net or
bucknek@earthlink.net.
To view TACTics in its intended
formatting, visit our web site at
www.tocforeducation.com and click on “What’s New.”