Ready to Put the Basic Principles
of Humanity Back into Education ... into Life?
America needs to turn the tide to a more soulful, humanistic experience in daily life; increasing violence and rising rates of suicide and drug use are clear signs that we're out of balance.
Between racing to the top and high stakes testing, our educational practices aren't helping. As Bill Rossi says in Venturing Together: Empowering Students to Succeed, standards-based education has created a psychological bleaching by filling students with information instead of empowering them to think creatively and develop their full potential.
Are we ready to stop following "the experts" down blind alleys?
The Rossi Teaching Approach can help because it gives you the tools to become more personally creative and guide students to reach an intimate, personally expressive and empowering place in themselves. Once a person has developed that place in herself, she can learn just about anything and lead a far more fulfilling life.
If you want to become a better musician, become a better human being. - John Coltraine
This is not just another theoretical perspective: thanks to Rossi's decades of immersion in these fields, he developed this approach out of experience - his own, his students', and other teachers'. He's done it for years, and he knows how to pass it on to others.
When teachers and others work with the orientations and key points in Venturing Together, they not only achieve greater success and satisfaction with their work, they contribute to positive change.
As I began my teaching career I quickly saw that I was at risk of becoming just as burned out as so many others, and began to wonder if this wasn’t at least one of the reasons there was so little progress being made in education.
It wasn’t until I started learning Bill Rossi’s approach and using the Merge evaluation software that I began to find a way out of my disillusionment, and a solid way into connecting with, reaching, and truly teaching my students. Dawn Mehan, Philadelphia
Arts Mentoring, Arts in Recovery ... and?
Good education is ... good education. So this effective approach aids your work in alternative education, mental health, or parenting and - because it shows you how to put the humanity back into relationships - it strengthens you in everything you do.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. - Duke Ellington
Venturing Together is one component of the Merge Toolkit, which also includes arts mentoring curricula, a program manual, and evaluation software (please read below). Each of the materials may be purchased separately.
Merge Also Provides Evaluation Software
for Community Programs
Discover how to Use Evaluation to Increase Funding
and Improve Your Programs
Are you worried about your program’s future? Do you want to put yourself at the leading edge for grants and contracts?
Program evaluation and management used to be an expensive and complicated chore, but with SETS: Student Evaluation & Tracking System, that's all changed. Comprehensive, affordable, and easy to use, SETS will simplify your business and give you the competitive edge - affordably.
Want to survive - and thrive? View the video just above ... then visit our SETS page to learn more, and put SETS to work for you today!
