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National Session
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ELC Welcome
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"I am very excited about presenting at the National because ours is a community that cares about diversity and social justice for children. We all know that the gap between minority and majority academic achievement persists despite what have been the efforts of many concerned educators. To close the gap, all it takes is a firm belief that ALL students can learn, and some common-sense strategies to help them. My session on System Thinking in the Classroom deals with how to
devise such practical strategies for helping children. Why is system
thinking useful to the education community? Because educators cannot
make change alone. Systems thinking presents a framework that will
Dr. Betty G. Williams (ELC 2001) is a reading specialist at Truman
Middle School. She is a recipient of the prestigious national Milken
Family Award for being an exceptional educator which she received
because of her work with middle school students. She is presently
in a principal preparation program at City University in Tacoma,
WA where she is also adjunct faculty teaching Child Development.
She has recently been named an educational advisor for the Junior
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