What I see as the most urgent problem for me to solve is one of multi-access. I want to create multi-levels of access to learning (mainstream or otherwise) that allows students to be able to “start where they are” and move dynamically through connected content. How far in a particular direction students would go, would depend upon the learning goals set out by them and their parents, and supported by both on and off-site school “personnel.” Though I have currently seemed to have convinced both students and parents in what is the early days of innovation, to accept the ideology of this model within the confines of a brick and mortar, small classroom situation, I do dream of the day where this model could be expanded to a broader student base .
I do realize that a model such as this, diverges away from the “egg crate” structure to education that we have grown over-accustomed. I do see a need however, to create more stimulating learning experiences for those who are marginalized but perhaps more importantly, for those who may marginalize themselves due to lack of interest in what can kindly be called outdated curriculum and uninspired organizational structures. To borrow from Gordon Neufeld, I am solidly focused on figuring out how “to create an invitation to exist” in the learning folds of what we call public education, for all youth but especially for those who want to study in ways that are more immediately and directly relevant to their next steps of contribution in the society they find themselves.