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Bart Patterson, President of Nevada State College, is the kind of man who looks at a deficit and sees opportunity. He has approached his work with an edupreneurial mindset, building programs that have made it the second-fastest-growing college in the country.
Cassandra Pawling, a culinary arts teacher at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, has noticed that it’s the stressors outside the classroom that have created internal conflict for her much more than the day-to-day stress of teaching.
Dockter-Rozar sees this upheaval as an opportunity for educators to chart a course toward meaningful change. “Education may be broken,” she says, “But the universe is providing an opening for us to rebuild. In many ways, this is a perfect opportunity.”
Curriculums based around skill development at the expense—disregard, even—of knowledge have failed. They’ve led to kids “drawing clowns” when they should be “drawing conclusions,” unable to recognize the more sophisticated word “conclusions” or to engage with a different definition of the word “draw.”
Those who have dedicated their talents and energies to the field of education understand this need fundamentally. Call it a passion, a gift, or a skill, but the fact is, educators change lives by answering the call for learning, inside and outside the classroom.
