EDUCATION COMMITTEE

• Continuing to develop learning strategies that are effective and enjoyable
• More effectively supporting and energizing all people who struggle in traditional school environments.
• Helping parents and teachers find new and different ways to work with each other and with their students
• Helping the educational system restructure itself to support all of the above activities.
• It is our dream to empower students, parents, teachers, and school systems so that a more humane and effective educational system has the opportunity to develop.

• We are capable of modeling all levels of successful learners and teachers; and teaching these models to others.
• We are capable of using the NLP presuppositions to facilitate systemic change in educational systems.
• We are capable of using humane presuppositions, such as those used in NLP, in transforming the methods used in educating students.

• All kinds and types of teachers, regardless of the venues in which they teach.
• Corporations;
• Local, national and international governments;
• Local, national and international communities of both individuals and special interest groups,
• Local, national and international organizations who are tasked with regulating education.

• Restructure educational organizations to operate out of the NLP and other presuppositions that support learning and the uniqueness of the individual students. Don Blackerby Projects in progress to support the above larger project:
• Developing NLP training programs that embody the presuppositions of NLP. - Marilyn Sargent
• Helping to facilitate the re-design of academic systems in community colleges. Phyllis Geyer
• The creation of a new integrative learning program and an accelerated language learning program Charlie Badenhop
• Organizing a project to research the learning styles of teachers and learners using NLP. Adrei Pligin
• How to create a supportive system between parents, students, and teachers for private schools. Maga Marquez
• Create a network of change agents who model the NLP presuppositions in their teaching and interactions. Don Blackerby
• Create a Data Base of everyone who is effectively using NLP in education that allows us a network of communication so techniques, success stories, and issues can be shared around the world. Jonathan Rice
• Model exemplars for various learning tasks - then share it with others. Jonathan Rice and John Klobas
• Create and implement accredited NLP college courses. John Klobas
• Promoting NLP to professionals in humane services and academic community as a field of study. Kyung Sook Chun (Kathering Kimm)
• The creation of an international systemic NLP based college system. Marilyn Atkinson
• Create children's books which teach the NLP presuppositions through stories. Jennifer Mercurio and Phyllis Geyer.
• Studying how Internal Dominant Eye Accessing can open up new avenues to learning. Al Sargent

• Information changing so quickly (info. Overload), people constantly need to up grade their skills,
• Everyone needs to keep learning their whole life - let's make it fun.
• Technology and media are integral parts of learning,
• Community attention moving from local to global.
• More part time workers, less resources, $$ for materials and programs,
• Salary not good for teachers, teachers not being heard by administrators, public education image very bad,
• Not enough resources to educate every child, private schools are the minority, growing dissatisfaction about public education not delivering results, accountability, separation between private and public education in attitude, use of materials, money and resources put into private schools meaning less resources for the public schools.