MAY 2015

Manuel R. CortezRodas
Chief Educator/Founder
MRCR Education

May is for Mother's Day, Memorial Day, and end of school year activities, as it is the last full month of school.

The time we have left in our schools, in our classrooms, now begins to be measured in weeks and final days, as we reflect on what we have done this school year.

Two tweets from Stanford University (@Stanford on Twitter) on the month of April caught my attention.

The first tweet, a story on entrepreneurial skills "The Skills That Make Entrepreneurs Extraordinary" , mentioned the mnemonic OODA developed during the Korean War which stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.  

The second tweet, a story on Intracraneal Electrophysiology "Study Deciphers The Noise In The Human Brain" , mentioned the brain' Default Mode Network, which during Autobiographical Memory Retrival sequentially activates vision centers, critical thinking areas, decision centers, and motion areas in the brain.

The similarities of both the concepts and their sequence of 1st. Visualizing; 2nd. Analyzing; 3rd. Deciding; and 4th. Acting; represent a natural brain process and an entrepreneurial skill that should become an integral part of educative assessment.

This month of May, I invite students, teachers, educators, and parents, to take some time to reflect and self-assess the value of our educational experiences this school year.


Manuel R. CortezRodas - Chief Educator/Founder

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Evaluating Education Self-Assessment

Take a moment to do a self-assessment of your education.  Evaluate your education by answering the following questions: 

What can you remember from your education?

Which areas of education have you studied and learned?

How is the accuracy of what you have studied and learned? 

Have you successfully developed the skills and knowledge required of a particular subject area in education? 

How is your education recognized in public?  

These are some of the questions we should ask of ourselves when evaluating education.  If we are true to ourselves, and give a fair self-assessment to education, we would, in turn, become better at becoming educated, for we would be able to make adjustments to our learning skills and abilities.  We would be able to learn with more efficiency.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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