This website is intended to serve three main purposes. First, I want to explain in more detail my plan for improving school funding in Washington State. In particular, I want to explain how school funding relates to other important issues such as restoring our economy, solving the health care crisis and solving environmental challenges. Second, I want to offer you a chance to read materials on Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution Skills I developed during my 20 years of teaching courses on these topics at Bellevue College. Many former students have asked for a way to share this information with their friends and now you can download it directly from this site. We are employing many of these team building and problem solving steps to solve the school funding problem described above. Finally, many of my former students have also asked me for copies of my outdoor course notebooks I wrote while at Bellevue Community College. In particular, my articles on structured decision making and avalanche avoidance skills have been translated into several different languages and posted on dozens of outdoor websites all over the world. Now you will be able to download many of these articles directly from this website. For more information, see my other websites:
springforbetterschools.org
My campaign website for the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction explaining in detail my program for restoring school funding, rebuilding our economy and reducing corporate corruption of our Democracy.
Coalitiontoprotectourpublicschools.org
Articles on the danger of toxic high stakes tests, high class sizes, charter schools and other privatization attacks on our public schools.
Weaponsofmassdeception.org
A complete book about how billionaires and wealthy corporatizations are using a series of lies in an attempt to take over and destroy our public schools.
washingtonpublicbankcoalition.org
Described how creation of a public bank in Washington State could create thousands of jobs and save tax payers billions of dollars.
collegeintheclouds.org
this is a link to all of our online educational courses.
If you have any questions or comments on any of the above topics, feel free to email me springforschools (at) gmail.com
Thanks for visiting my website!
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
In November 1994, I wrote a book about saving the environment. It is called Snow Birds - A Story of Hope. By popular request, you can now download a PDF of this book by clicking on the following link:
In 2012, my younger brother Bob passed away after a battle with cancer. My brother was a very unique person. He was always very curious about how things work. His method of learning was to take things apart. In 1963, when he was 11, he borrowed my transistor radio and took it apart. He build a primitive computer from scratch by soldering wires into a circuit board and using the transistor from my transistor radio. His computer won a regional science fair. This was 20 years before one could buy a personal computer at a store.
My mom is fond of saying that Bob could fix anything. His method of fixing stuff was to do what he had done all of his life – to take things apart and see how they worked. Bob went on to graduate from Benson Technical High School in Portland. He then worked for a high tech computer manufacturer called Floating Point where is job was fixing computer hardware. He showed me a computer he had built which could analyze what was wrong with other computers. So Bob used computers to fix computers. In the 1980’s Bob went to work for Intel in Portland. He traveled around the world fixing computers for Intel.
In February, 1986, Bill Gates gave a speech announcing to the world that in May, Microsoft and Intel would join together to demonstrate a new product called the internet in which computers would be wired together so they could all talk with each other. There were only two problems with Bill’s speech - neither the hardware nor the software existed for this ambitious project.
