CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Studies, Santa Clara University
High School SDS Pilot Test, University of Santa Clara
Education Project Welch, Mike Project to Launch a New High School

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090701 - Follow up ref SDS 6 0000, ref SDS 2 0000.
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090703 -   1.  Glad to hear about your progress up the ladder in education
090704 -       and that Janet is doing the same.  You two make a great team,
090705 -       sort of like Bill and Hillary, at least in some respects.  I
090706 -       always thought we would be hearing about Congressman or
090707 -       Senator Welch, based on your skill and personality.  Of course
090708 -       there is a lot of luck that goes into the mix of attaining
090709 -       public leadership.  Sometimes wish we had a better system for
090710 -       connecting talents to tasks, but in an imperfect world, we
090711 -       probably have the best that can be implemented by mere
090712 -       mortals.
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090715 -   2.  Your assignment to open a new high school sounds like an
090716 -       exciting project, with lots of planning and communication to
090717 -       get things done on time and within budget, so I am sure you
090718 -       have a good team.  You might consider applying Com Metrics for
090719 -       support.  POIMS explains a lot about why a new way of working
090720 -       is needed, but, ultimately, the only way people can grasp new
090721 -       ideas is through experience, and the best way to gain that
090722 -       experience is tangentially by accomplishing daily work faster,
090723 -       better and cheaper.  That is what we are trying at Aerospace company with
090724 -       Gary.
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090727 -   3.  I am looking for situations to deploy SDS and Com Metrics so
090728 -       that people get a chance to discover how theory drives
090729 -       practice through experience doing daily work.  In your case
090730 -       opening a new school, like at Aerospace company, SRI and IBM, when people
090731 -       begin getting SDS records of meetings and calls, they can
090732 -       learn the meaning of adding "intelligence" to information that
090733 -       strengthens literacy.  For teachers to get this opportunity,
090734 -       some will begin thinking about implications for education,
090735 -       i.e., teaching and learning, and as they gain confidence that
090736 -       traditional literacy can be advanced, some will want to
090737 -       experiment and apply their new knowledge on the job, i.e., in
090738 -       the classroom.
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090741 - This addresses Mike's point on 951019 that teachers have their own
090742 - ideas about teaching. ref SDS 2 QD7L
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090746 -   4.  I am fine; not quite as nimble as before.  Had to give up tennis
090747 -       because the knees finally gave out.  Do you remember our match
090748 -       at your folk's place up in the mountains, what was that in about
090749 -       1985?  Also, am now a little "culinaryily challenged" by
090750 -       digestion issues, but probably need to diet anyway.
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090753 -   5.  You may have heard that Millie was diagnosed with breast
090754 -       cancer last year.  She has come through several operations and
090755 -       chemotherapy fairly successfully.  Her hair has finally grown
090756 -       back, and through it all she kept up a regimen of exercise
090757 -       that would have qualified for a spot with the Marines during
090758 -       recent exercises in Iraq.  Looks like there is no distant
090759 -       metastasis so far.  Keeping our fingers crossed that upcoming
090760 -       tests are favorable.
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090763 -   6.  Again, glad to from you.  Keep in touch.
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