California Teacher, Finland Bound
Dave OrphalInterACT guest blog post by Dave Orphal
Dave Orphal teaches high school social studies in Oakland, CA. In addition to being a member of Accomplished California Teachers, he is also active in two projects of the Center for Teaching Quality (Teacher Leaders Network, Bay Area New Millennium Initiative) and a project of the the Institute for Teaching, an initiative of the California Teachers Association. This blog post was originally published on TransformED, the group blog for the Center for Teaching Quality. Read more from Dave and other teacher leaders on TransformED.If you are like me, you have been following Barnett Berry’s posts about his recent trip to Finland. Barnett, along with Linda Darling-Hammond, union leaders, and other educational reform heavy-thinkers spent about a week together with Finnish education leaders and Pasi Sahlberg, the author of Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn form Educational Change in Finland? If you haven’t you can catch up on his trip here, here, and here.
I am also heading to Finland. On Monday, I step onto the airplane. Organized by PDK International and EF Professional Development Tours, about forty American educators are going to meet with Finnish teachers,