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Originally Posted by mathking
Through all of that, one of the things I have been most concerned about is keeping the team from dying when I step back. I don't want the program to be about me. I don't want it to be "my program." I want it to be the team that the school (or in our case the school district, since all three high schools share a team) has. I want it to be just like the football team or the band. When the teacher leading it resigns they get someone else to do the job. Thanks to the painstaking efforts of one of our school board members there is now a small stipend which the teachers split. It is not a lot of money, but the fact that there is a stipend is important because it means that when I resign there will be a position to fill.
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I want to insure that the program survives when I am no longer running it. In my career I have taken over teaching and coaching for some long time, highly successful (and locally legendary) teachers and coaches. Each time they gave me the advice to lead the program the way I think it should go. And not to worry if I think changes are needed. I want to make sure that when I pass the torch team 1014 won't miss a beat.
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
And this is why FIRST as a national organization needs to integrate themselves with education rather than separate themselves from it.
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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
I'm not so sure. I don't know if FIRST's mission and DPEA's statement about educational objectives necessarily align.
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I'm fairly certain sanddrag's reply was to the immediately preceding post, which was not about DPEA. The point here is that making FIRST a part of the curriculum at the school board (rather than an individual teacher) level will provide better continuity. Unless there's some awful baggage, it is usually easier to operate an existing team than to spin up a new one. The teams under our school board are working towards these same goals.