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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer . The second annual Rappahannock Educators’ Conference Saturday provided an opportunity for parents and teachers to learn about and share ideas for improving education.
, Organized by Laurie Marshall and sponsored by the elementary PTO, the conference again provided an opportunity for public and private school teachers and home schoolers to get together and attempt to break down the barriers that separate them.
This year’s conference had the theme “Creating the Learning Comntunity.” From the featured speaker Starla Jewell-Kelly, director of the National Community Education Association (NCEA), to the performance of a portion of The Slabtown District Convention by members of the black community, through workshops presented by public and private school teachers and home schoolers, to the closing discussion of visions for education in Rappahannock County, the conference focused on how children and adults from all races and backgrounds can work together to create an environment in which all become life-long learners.
Ms. Jewell-Kelly said she got her life-long love for learning and teaching from a one-room school, where blder children helped teach younger ones, all the children cooperated to fetch water and cook soup for lunch, the building was used on Saturday evenings for dances and on Sunday for church services.
She said the NCEA started when Charles Stuart Mott, a rich man in Flint Michigan, learned that the local public school was locked when school was not in session. After some lobbying “the school board agreed the school should be open to the community,” she said. ' “The community has invested billions in school buildings," she added. “Now people have realized they own the buildings.” What started as after school programs for children and ievening classes for adults has grown Jo 10,000 community education programs in the United States and organizations promoting community education in countries around the tyorld, she said.
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