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Paul,

Thank you for all the work you did for us. The session was interesting, relaxed, and involving. I plan to make use of a number of the ideas. Moreover, the "affective objectives" will be retained and built upon. They reenforce my belief that we have to find out where our kids are before we can really know how to get them to where we want them. You might say that if we view education as a journey and if we don't know where our students are beginning (and what they believe they are seeing along the way), we can't expect to properly guide them to the destination.

Another analogy:
Somehow we will have to find a way in this century to equip them with the tools to construct the knowledge themselves. How are we to know if the blueprints we provide are sufficient? We need to find a new set of assessment tools, don't we?

Any suggestions? I'm open!