Serendipity35

The National Education Association, at their recently concluded conference in Washington D.C., has announced the adoption of EduSpeak as the formal and accepted standard of communication between education professionals. Originally designed to illuminate educators' written craft, the announcement, by Emerson College's Linguistics Professor Norman Crosby, included the extension of the EduSpeak standard to: "verbal enrichment skills, comprehensive audio-lingual communication and a prioritized sense of diction and elocution. In order to clarify among pedagogical professionals the precise meanings of language initiatives."

The three day symposium actively pursued the integration of the new communications standard into:

1. Taking grants for granted
2. Petty Professional Staff
3. The Aphasic Administrator

During the 2 hour lunch break the first day at the conference, one adjunct professer at a New Jersey technical school, raised a concern:

"We need to find a way to make sure everyone gets this information."

By the end of that day, his concern had become:

"Dissemination of information related to the project year's activities (discussed below) will necessitate the creation and implementation of strategies to inform [non-pilot] school partners –both secondary and post-secondary-- of the program's content. Outreach (e. g. Mailings, a website, conferences, and/or meeting presentations) will inform these partners of the available curriculum suitable for replication and technical assistance related to curriculum planning and implementation and staff development. Other established venues of communication will be explored and, where appropriate, used to facilitate the dissemination of public information (i. e. district websites, videotape, newsletters, meetings)."

Professor Crosby recognized the achievement by toasting the adjunct's remarkable pedantic success: "Bull's Ear, Cat Food!" he intoned.

Not only did the transformed paragraph actually win a grant award, but it stimulated spirited complaining among the professional staff and rendered administrators mostly silent as they had no ability to both verbalize and appropriate other people's money, simultaneously --the Hat Trick of EduSpeak.

Scheduled to reconvene in late 2009 at Phoenix, Arizona retreat, the conference concluded with the announcement of the topic for next year's congregation: "Humanities and Mathmatics: Subjective Testing, Enrichment and Remediation."