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| The world was still reeling from the
devastation of world war two and the horrors of the holocaust
when Lucille Sheets was a student. As she moved through
the traditional educational process toward graduation from
Portland State University our own country experienced major
racial unrest and social upheaval. All of this left an indelible
mark on this young schoolteacher who came to believe that
prejudice and alienation, political apathy and cynicism,
are maladies that can and must be addressed in our educational
system (s). The tragic history of much of this century need
not be repeated. Sheets became convinced that mainstreaming
our young people, immersing them in the affairs of the world
around them, bringing them into "real world" interaction
with people of all ages, races and backgrounds, is the only
way to assure a common good. Only through sharing of common
goals and priorities can a nation of people with such diverse
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President
Lucille Sheets
VP - Administrative Services
Donna Mathew
VP - Community Relations
Jeanne Sagoo
Secretary / Treasurer
Fevrel Pratt
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Through out her entire career, every
class Sheets taught has learned by participating in this
basic teaching premise. In addition to being a venue for
traditional academic experiences, her classroom became a
kind of "apprenticeship to life". The results
Mrs. Sheets has achieved are most impressive and quite remarkable.
Two of her student’s accomplishments are:
* Successfully interacting with the Oregon legislature,
learning the process and effecting legislative change. Her
students were responsible for changing a law banning flavored
milk in state-funded school lunch programs.
* Successfully campaigned to stop the federal Aviation Administration
from removing the historic aircraft-warning beacon atop
Rocky Butte, in Portland, Oregon.
Every year her class has vigorously pursued involvement
in community affairs while continuing to be engaged, and
achieving strong performance, in the traditional educational
curriculum.
As the years passed, Sheets noticed an interesting phenomenon:
her former students continued to demonstrate an interest
in the issues they studied in her classroom. She began to
collect information, informal and anecdotal, that suggested
two things: a lower dropout rate among her students and
academic scores consistently higher than the city mean.
In addition, these results were achieved in an extremely
cost effective manner and at a time of diminishing resources.
The results were very encouraging. They began to attract
attention to the teaching system that later became known
as "Location Learning".
Portland State University’s Division of Continuing
Education invited Lucille Sheets to join their staff and
teach her innovative method to other educators. To assist
in that effort Sheets and a fellow educator, Fevrel Pratt,
co-authored and published a textbook describing the Location
Learning method (system). Subsequently a Location Learning
Association, not for profit 501-C3, corporation was formed.
A Board of Directors was appointed. Location Learning experienced
a rapid growth in its volunteer corps. The Board, with the
help of those wonderful volunteers, proceeded to expand
LLA’s outreach. Educators working with public and
private sector professionals, came together to draft an
aggressive business plan aimed at taking Location Learning
world wide in the next ten years.
The journey has begun. We enthusiastically encourage you
to join us. Working together and sharing a commitment to
the common good of student’s world wide, together,
we will accomplish our mission.
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