Daggett and Trasformational OBE From: JoanEB001 Date sent: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:50:11 EST To: Fredb001@aol.com Subject: Daggett/OBE - Long Trail Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) TO ALL: A question arose on the loop again (from a newer member) about William Daggett. In looking for information about something ELSE to send to someone today, I found a Guest column I wrote for the Apalachin monthly paper in February 1995, "Outcome Based Education"?? Massive Public Relations Con" (And that was just in the beginning. The Con has been cloned since then) For the new member, and for others who may not have realized they might want the same information, I'll quote here a paragraph from that Guest column. Because the information was more important for the space restrictions than a name that wouldn't have registered, William Daggett was not specified in the paragraph. He is the director of the group that sponsored the Model Schools Conference in 1994 (and every year since), He came from the NY State Dept. of Education, and he has SINCE branched out to having an international group with the same theme as described below. Please note also that the referenced "Christian Conscience" is the monthly magazine published by loop members Sarah and Lynn Leslie, which has grown by leaps and bounds since the first issue referenced below: >From Apalachin column, February 1995: "Iowa Research Group Jan. '95 "Christian Conscience" published a report on the June '94 Model Schools Conference in Atlanta. 1300 educators and public figures heard memorable statements such as these: 'Memorization and recall are mindless work' (former superintendent of Johnson City NY schools). 'Most people are too busy working to pay attention to the education of their own childrenąthat's why we require children to board at school' (Chairwoman of Chinese Intellectual Resources Development Center). 'Peasant Class will explode and be composed of unskilled service workers. No middle class exists; the Bureau of Standards has already identified this trend.' (Internet for Educators' speakers.) OBE? You bet! This Model Schools conference was sponsored by a group directed by a former co-trainer with William Spady at Outcome-Based Education seminars-- who also 'held a series of management positions at the NYS Dept. of Education, and led initiatives on the current restructuring of education in NYS,' according to 'Calif. Schools,' Winter '94 issue. The Asst. Director of the sponsoring group is currently 'also employed by the NYS Dept. of Education as Regional Curriculum Supervisor.'" As an added reminder, the same guest column included something all of us may have forgotten over the years. The other day someone posted some reference to "Transformational" stage of something. Bingo! Read this. Here it was: "There are three stages of OBE, as outlined by original proponents (Spady, Champlin and others): 1. Traditional OBE (closely resembling education as we used to know it); 2 Transitional OBE (slipping in some techniques of behavior- modification and group learning); and 3 Transformational OBE (where the primry focus is on changing students' attitudes and beliefs rather than on academics, and which proponents hoped to see totally in place by 2000.) New York's New Compact for Learning sets 'goals' for 'what students will know, do and be like by graduation time.' It's 'to change the way we raise our children,' and it calls for 'parents to support school values and attitudes' -- rather than the other way around." New York and other states have all moved steadily along in the intervening three years. Names of programs are still being changed to hide the undeterred intents. The pilot states (like Barb Tennison's Oregon and others) are well along into Phase 3. Most of the rest are in Phase 2. Almost everyone is out of Phase 1 by now. They said what they meant -- they just didn't say it all at the same time in the same place. (Which made it easier to smear those who saw the pattern.) Let's us, please, focus on the whole picture, not on whether someone is fighting something somewhere, or worse yet, on fighting bits of what one of us may be fighting or quoting somewhere. Some may think this is all something new. WRONG. Even in 1994 and 1995 it was not new -- it was just being revealed a piece at a time in scattered locations, with the hope that few of the "Peasant Class" would notice. PLEASE NOTE ALSO THAT 1300 educators and public figures were briefed on all of this in just this one conference almost four years ago. One conference/1300 educators at a clip. Multiply that times all the other conferences we paid for but weren't privileged to attend, know about or link together. JOAN