TURKISH SCHOOLS & TERM HOLIDAY

Turkish schools started their fifteen-day-holiday yesterday. I wish a peaceful and fruitful holiday to all students, teachers, administrators and also parents. Universities also ended their final exams and students have started their one-month holiday. If you ask about the instructors; we will rest after checking the final papers and projects, make the necessary preparations for the next term and most probably we will also set aside some days to rest.

I am planning to rets for some time during the first week of February. I will also take some exercice to feel healthier for the coming days. For, I will give two courses and most probably I will have 90 more very precious students like the previous ones. One is an elective course named; "Non-violence in education". It is for the junior and senior students of all faculties. It will be the second time to be instructed. I know it will be a very useful one for the future teachers. They will produce many projects to be ornamented with SQC philosophy. The other is a compulsory course for the freshman students: "Introduction to education". Being an experienced teacher does not mean to stay without doing anything about the new term. It necessitates harder work to renew ourselves. that is why I will be reading many books during the holiday. I will also finalize editing a book about "Village Institutions". It contains 35 projects concerning that wonderful philosophy.

I will go on lecturing about ICT seagulls Project after the holiday. On 11th February I am one of the speakers of the Monthly Seminars of the Alumni Center of Yıldız Technical University. On 15th I will be in Trabzon to inform all the educators working there including the Black Sea Technical University. This year, the interest of the universities seems to be more intensive then the previous years. Yalova University will also ve with us soon.

I would like to share a photo from the ICT Seagulls Award ceremony in CMS, Lucknow, India on 3rd December 2011. Prof.Richard Ennals is getting the awards of Kingston university teams.I hope this year we will be organize one in Turkey and one in Nepal. Sincerely yours,
Hayal KOKSAL

EURASIAN CENTER FOR SCHOOLS OF QUALITY

We opened a new Chapter within Quality Studies:

EURASIAN CENTER for SCHOOLS of QUALITY

Please wait for the recent developments!

Hayal Köksal & John Jay Bonstingl

Photo Source: http://www.istanbul.com/istanbul-resimleri/kopruler/bogaz-koprüsü--982/

NEW YEAR WISHES

May this New Year 2012 bring
 H ours of happy times with all your friends, colleagues and family
Abundant time for relaxation
Prosperity
Plenty of love from your dear & near
Youthful excitement at life’s simple pleasures

Nectar in your thoughts
Everything you need
Wishing you love and happiness through out the year

Years and years of happiness & good health
Enjoyment and excitement throughout the Year
Angel to watch over you
Rattling speed to grow!

Wish you a happy and prosperous New year to you and your family.

Regards

                                             

 I LIKED THE ABOVE LINES CAME FROM S.B.PUROHİT AND I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU. 
                                                                                                                 HAYAL KÖKSAL                                                
                                                   

A New Start to A New Year

I WISH A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND WEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY DOSTS.

I want to share an e- mail coming from dearest Yönter family living in USA. I had met Yeşim through a lovely friend from Adana and I had read her poems and also followed her activities with a great admiration on the way of assisting Cancer patients who were university students. Then, she also lost her life due to that terrible disease and her lovely husband Akın went on directing the Cancer Survivors Fund. I am very happy to know both of them. Now, such a mail guided me to share it will the whole dosts to make a good start just on the first day of the year. Love and peace...
Hayal Köksal

A new year lies ahead. We all possess the capacity to feel and to touch, to be happy, to have friends, to receive love, to realize the demands of a world that needs our encouragement, our participation, our beliefs. All of us are one -- the rich, the poor, the educated, the illiterate, the student, businessperson, the professional, the person with spouse and children, the person who is alone. So much is new in our world -- new people, new directions, new opportunities, and new purpose. Every day is a new day bringing into our lives friendship, promise, and love.

Let us ask ourselves hard questions…

How much time did we waste in the year that is now gone?

Did we fill our days with life, or were they dull and empty?

Was there love inside our home, or was the affectionate word left unsaid?

Was there a real companionship with our children, our parents or was there a living together and a growing apart?

Were we a help to our mates, or did we take them for granted?

With our friends - Were we there when they needed us?

The kind deed: Did we perform it or postpone it? The unnecessary gibe: did we say it or hold it back?

Did we live by false values? Did we deceive others? Did we deceive ourselves?

Were we sensitive to the rights and feelings of those who worked with us?

Did we acquire only possessions, or did we acquire new insights as well?

Did we fear what the crowd would say and keep quiet when we should have spoken out?

Did we mind only our own business, or did we feel the heartbreak of others?

And…

Did we live right, and if not, then have we learned and will we change?

Yeshim & Mike Yonter

Founders

Cancer Survivors Fund

Another Great Loss from WCTQEE

Dear All,

We have been fully socked to learn about the sad news of Ranjith Goonatilake, the Director General of Sri lanka in WCTQEE after the great sorrows of Nelum de Silva and Adreas Plozenke in previous years. It is very difficult to find any word to express my own feelings on the news. I know we have to bear this loss, although it is very difficult.The photo on the right was taken during the opening ceremony of 14. ICSQCC on the 1st December, 2011. Our prayers are with him and also with Chandrika, his family, his students and all dosts for giving enough strength to bear this loss. He will be always in our heart and soul.

I share the message coming from Dr. Vineeta Kamran, the executive director of WCTQEE.

With kind regards...

Hayal Köksal

Dear Friends,

It is a matter of profound sorrow and grief to inform you about the sudden and very tragic demise of our beloved Ranjith Goonatilake, the Director General (WCTQEE) of Sri Lanka few hours back today in Colombo.

Ranjith has been associated with students’ quality movement since its inception and presentation of SQC Jai Jagat in Hong Kong in 1994.  He has left behind his wonderful wife Chandrani and his limitless legacy of kind and noble deeds. His contribution to WCTQEE shall ever be remembered with tearful gratitude and fond remembrance. The Chairman WCTQEE, Dr. Jagdish Gandhi has expressed his deep sorrow on the most sudden and shocking demise of Ranjith Goonatilake.We pray to the Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear the irrepairable loss.

V.K.

14. ICSQCC in CMS, Lucknow, INDIA

Dearest Dosts,

We have had a wonderful 5 days in CMS, Lucknow, India. I believe all the participants have been thinking the same. Days and nights there are always full of love, respect, peace and collaboration. These feelings always renew the participants. This time the same thing happened to me. I feel much more energetic, happy and full of love towards everything. Whatever they do in school to train peaceful and fruitful future leaders as the teachers and administrators, they do the same to all and we come back our homes with peaceful hearts and feelings. Thanks to Dr. Gandhis and thanks to Dr. Kamran. I also thank to WCTQEE members.

I wish you all  Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year.

Hayal Köksal

A LEADER SCHOOL: CMS



Dear All,

After a week-India Tour I am back again. With 4 academicians, 2 High School administrators and 2 university students, we have gained a lot of experience and initiative concerning the quality-focused system of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India. Even though it was my fifth visit, I felt a great happiness due to the great change  in the airport of New Delhi, in the city of Lucknow and within the school itself.

India is really improving a lot and it is certain that in the near future that crowded incredible country will have signed to various big changes and reforms in the area. First of all; they are very optimistic. Anger, hatred and violence are rarely-even never-seen there. They are all helpful and supportive. they give importance to females. Many top managers are women and their wisdom and revolutionary spirits are noticed in the city easily. They seem to have developed their approach to the education. they use Quality Management and SQC= Students' Quality Circles in every single step. Empowerment at the higest level in every field. Trust is the essence of it. They use technology well, however time management shows a little bit problem in some fields. Villages and villagers are empowered as well. Their agriculture has been improving a lot.

The World Council for Total Quality & excellence in Education (WCTQEE) was held there with 25 members and some decisions were made. on May 2012, the 15th ICSQCC will take place in mauritius. London, Kingston University will be the host in 2014. All the member countries work hard. In Turkey, we will go on publicising the İmece Circles movement to teach the youngesters to teach "critical thinking and problem solving" skills. We will prepare a new web page for the Turkey Chapter of WCTQEE.

The award distribution of 2011 ICT Seagulls Project with the support of WCTQEE and CMS family. Students from Nepal, UK and Turkey had their awards and certificates. Until the end of December, the registrations for the 2012 ICT Seagulls Projects will go on. We hope more and more schools will be with us in the new year. I would like to send my thanks and gratitudes to Dr. Kamran, Dr. Gandhi (Above photo) and all WC members including my new dost Mrs. Neetu Kapoor (who is in the below photo), the principals of G.D.Goenka Public School, India.

Wait for more messages from India.  JAI JAGAT!

Hayal Köksal