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Serving All Students Requires Change | Bill Decker | TEDxBellevueHighSchool

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Discussion on the individual needs of students, both in areas of strength and in area of potential improvement, being very different than in the past. We can't limit ourselves to what we have always done, because we don't want to limit our results to what we have always achieved in the past.  It is our responsibility as educators to innovate in order to more effectively prepare students for the changing world of the future, not the world of the past.


Bill Decker is the Chief Administrator for the Mississippi Bend AEA, & was selected to serve in that position in the spring of 2013. He served as Superintendent of Schools in Muscatine, Harlan, & Mount Ayr, IA.  He taught in South Dakota & Iowa & served as an administrator at Sioux City West High School & as the High School Principal in South Sioux City, Nebraska.  In every community of service, Mr. Decker has worked to empower administrator/staff/teacher teams to create innovative cultures of learning. His desire to better prepare students for the real world led his districts to become leaders in the state of Iowa in Project Based Learning, Competency Based Education, and Technology. His commitment to innovation was evidenced in leading Mt. Ayr to become the first one-to-one computing district in the state. At the AEA, he leads an organization that serves 21 school districts. He holds his undergraduate degree from Northwestern College and pursued his graduate work at the USD and ISU.

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