This is a brief summary of resources about the California Assembly Bill(2648) Multiple Pathways for vocational education paths in public schools. It is a resource for my own record as I work on an Industrial Arts teaching credential, and help develop ideas and a program that will leverage this policy while helping drive it's development through discussion. Presently I have not been able to find any internet discussion about the Bill other than this web forum hosted by WestEd, which is now closed.

the system at the teacher/training level is a mess. There seems to be no solid way in. the private sector is taking the opportunity where the public system is falling apart. It is pumping out teachers, but it is not focusing on the systemic failure. In fact two administrators I have come across here at NU are trying to underplay the situation.
Chzech is wasting 20 minutes of our class time to do her job.
I don't what to be down on these guys. I think especially Kimo, is a great teacher, no doubt. But I think they are opportunist in a system failing and they are driving the private system, which is just any old corporation and the beauracrcy is f'd up. I know this already
If these guys can get accredited to give out teaching credentials, I can devise an open source version of a teaching credential program that is a hybrid of sign-up, appointed, and pay. it is an educational NPO. Plumbob Ed.
-masters degree opens up a higher pay scale for teachers. without, you cap out at 59,000 in San Jose district.

student interviews round2: 4 sophmores Overfelt High School
-no drivers ed?
-1 of 4 has an internet connected computer..
-they have option to go to CCOC. have to be juniors. have to have 100 credits.
-they all admit that they are passing some courses without knowing the material.
-Kimo helped them learn to control themselves

Foundations of American Education Summary Chapters 1-6

Develop Support base as soon as you can at the school you will be at. First thing you do on campus, is go talk to the custodian and secretary. they handle the school. The take a walk around the campus. become familiar with the neighborhood. walk in front of the campus. find out where the stores are. convinience stores. it's where the kids hang out. and it's common knowledge of their world. Look at classroom and draw a pic of the classroom.

Guerilla warfare TM- use what works for the kids. As needed you bring out required material by state.

-there is going to be someone in the class we don't like, we have to overcome it and not let them know you don't like them. It happens, it's human nature. we do have to treat them with respect.

-we have the right to not discuss politics and reveal our political positions and affiliations. but we should push the envelop and involve the kids. Its a good opportunity to challenge their cul

-a week after grades posted. there should be a chance to change the grade for the possitive. If student shows initiative and strives for more.

This is my first class in a 2 year regimen to get my teaching credential. I proves to be a very tricky classroom environment; teaching teachers. There is a sense that I need to be skeptical of the education system when I am taught that the system is broken. How does this translate to the part of the system that I am in(NAT UNIV) to learn to teach and enter the system as a teacher. My mond gets caught right into the systems thinking I apply to all other endevours, the global system is broken and this is just one corner of that system. It happens to be a dense intersection of the foundations of society.

I left class feeling frustrated and disheartened. This started earlier in the afternoon as I was grappling with my own seeming inability to process and boil down assigned reading and dropping the ball on my group and individual work. Later on this frustration turned to the education system in general and my seeming inability to adhere to it's demands both systemic/adminsitrative and academically.