VTS in Conversation
Abigail Housen talks with Boston Superintendent Dr. Carol Johnson
A conversation between Dr. Carol Johnson, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Abigail Housen took place on November 11, 2008 at a fundraiser to support bringing VTS to Boston Public Schools. Before the conversation, guests participated in a VTS discussion.
Dr. Johnson has consistently championed the arts as vital to student learning and school innovation. Dr. Johnson has an abiding belief in excellence, in equity for every student and her mantra is, "every child, everyday college bounds the democracy thing again." She came to Boston in August 2007 and before that she was superintendent of Memphis City Schools in Tennessee and the Minneapolis Schools in Minnesota. In both places she won Superintendent of the Year Award.
Dr. Carol Johnson: "I believe that the VTS model is one of the most powerful models for really engaging young people, changing our perceptions about who can learn and who cannot, and also really building a foundation where teachers work in a very real sense…Even though we did not start out thinking about Visual Thinking Strategies as a vehicle for improving teaching, and improving learning, and improving our performance on assessment, the outcomes for us were pretty profound in terms of the results that they would demonstrate."
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