“The Story of Stuff” promoted by Texas A&M JUN 04 Posted by Ginger in Featured Post I spent thousands of dollars sending my daughter to Texas A&M, what I thought was a conservative Texas University. I am finding out every day that A&M it is not as conservative as I once imagined. For example, the Texas A&M Aggie T-STEM department is all about transforming our education system K-16 from conservative traditional based learning to a progressive project based learning. This is being done via grants and the program is called Texas A&M T-STEM Academy. The goals of T-STEM are outlined HERE. Texas A & M T-STEM Academy is working with other T-Stem Academies including, the Texas Education Service Centers (created CSCOPE) and the Texas Education Agency to accomplish their progressive goal of implementing Project Based Learning (PBL). On the Texas A&M’s T-STEM Website you will find information describing the vision and intent of T-STEM. After evaluating CSCOPE lessons, I didn’t think I could be shocked by instruction material, but I was wrong. Education is the one industry that is making money by making changes from traditional learning to Project Based Learning (PBL). You might be asking yourselves, “So What’s the Big Deal?” The answer is that while learning styles come and go, but PBL is not just a teaching technique. PBL is a progressive movement that promotes setting facts aside and allowing students to create their own understanding of the world around them. Even this is not what PBL is. Instead, while students are given freedom to make their own choices, the list of choices are manipulative. Students are being trained via PBL to embrace progressive, socialist ideology. Parents, you cannot trust the state or federal education agency to know what your child should be taught. This is because these agencies are no longer focused on educating students in reading, writing, science, and math. Instead, they are focused on their social and emotional development. This is the job of parents, not public schools. There are grants providing millions of dollars to PBL learning, which is focused on your child’s social behavior and emotional development. Project Based Learning is the framework of the CSCOPE lessons as well as Common Core. In other words, Texas Schools who have been using CSCOPE already have the framework of Project Based Learning implemented. Thus, CSCOPE schools have the Common Core Project Based Learning in place. Its a small adjustment to replace the TEKS with the Common Core standards. Teachers are no longer given the option to avoid standards that are biased toward socialism or some specific religion. Whether its the CSCOPE Micromanaging System or something else administrators (with a need to be in control) implement, the state standards, be they the TEKS or Common Core have become law. Since TEA and the State Education Service Centers promote Project Based Learning, it really doesn’t matter what the state standards are, its how they are implemented in student lessons. We have seen this with CSCOPE lessons promoting the Islamic religion to satisfy the state standard to teach about different religions. Yes, the standards do matter. But how teachers implement them is so much more important. The following information is from the TEA’s website. This lets you know that TEA is supporting Project Based Learning. I found the following powerpoint on T-STEM site. The following is a screen shot of one of the slides promoting the environmental leftist propoganda website “The Story of Stuff” which is filled with numerous untruths in hopes in indoctrinating our children.....: JOIN OUR COMMUNITY Select Language▼ DONATE ABOUT BLOGMOVIES PODCASTSRESOURCES SUPPORT THE PROJECT DOWNLOADS FAQ You Can Help Keep This Community Growing! 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They learned that the orangutans’ habitat is being destroyed to plant oil palm plantations. After making the shocking discovery that palm oil was an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies, they launched a campaign to make Girl Scout cookies rainforest-safe. Listen Now! What kind of changemaker are you? Ready to make some change? Take our Changemaker Personality Quiz to see how you show up in the world and what role you can play in the Story of Stuff Community and beyond. Take the Quiz! Watch our Films! 6 years, 8 films, and 37 million views later, our films have been viewed in every country on Earth! Click here to watch the original that started it all! Watch the Movie: News & Updates FEATURED POST // PODCASTS // SOLUTIONS, VICTORIES AND SUCH! // The Good Stuff — Episode 11: Girl Scout Cookies, Orangutans and Palm Oil In 2007, two kids in Michigan set out to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award by raising awareness about the endangered orangutan. They learned that the orangutans’ habitat is being destroyed to plant oil palm plantations. After making the shocking discovery that palm oil was an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies, they launched a campaign to make Girl Scout cookies rainforest-safe. … FULL POST » 0 CommentsLISTEN PODCASTS // SOLUTIONS, VICTORIES AND SUCH! // The Good Stuff — Episode 10: The People Have the Power Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, govenment regulators or even professional environmental activists. Annie looks at two communities, half a world apart, where citizens showed that people on the front lines of pollution have the power to fight back against being poisoned. … FULL POST » 3 CommentsREAD MORE COMMUNITY // CONSUMPTION // FEATURED POST // GET INVOLVED! // RESOURCES // Choose Family over Frenzy When I turned on my computer today, I had 8 emails from vendors announcing special low prices — Black Friday deals — available all week. 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