A
Maslow-Toffler Retrospective Interviews
with M-T Staff and Students (Recorded
in February 1983)
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Introductory Text by John Sherin ~
This
was to be the first of two final years of M-T in Brentwood. What
had been the ground-breaking Maslow-Toffler School of Futuristic Education
was now Maslow Toffler, an alternative program moved to a corner of the
regular high school, at the direction of the principal. Nine previous
years of its existence saw gradual structural changes occur in order to
secure its survival for the sake of the community it served. "Back
to basics" was now the order of the day. Appearances by Board President
Anthony F. Felicio, Guidance Counselor Chico Frankel, Facilitators Bob
Primavera and Grace DiRiggi, and a committed group of students here reflect
the qualities that survived and changes that had occurred over the decade.
Audrey
Townsend introduces Grace DiRiggi and Bob Primavera, staff members, and
Dawn Johnson, student, in a wide ranging discussion of the “4 R’s” and
M-T’s learning community. They talk about art, differentiation of
instruction, work study, attendance, student evaluations, peer teaching,
co-facilitation and confrontation. Bob shares how Syracuse University
Project Advance offers college credit for students who pass exams and acknowledges
M-T as the home of an inclusive Explorer Post of the Boy Scouts of America.
He expounds on the continued growth in the Brentwood School District of
his Children’s Readers Theater, borrowed initially from Hofstra University
by IMC Coordinator Hank Salerno.
