“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” Winston Churchill How can the creators and advocates of the Common Core rationalize locking the profession into years more of high stakes testing, complete with the attendant bullet list of
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I work in an emergency room. There are no doctors here, no ambulances, and rarely nurses of any kind. I am an educator that finds myself struggling to triage my students’ most basic human needs of food,
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Make Teacher Retention a Ripple Effect
Have you seen or read something lately that engaged you in a ripple effect? So much movement,change and action, all stemming from one “drop.” That ripple effect happend to me after reading this post by fellow blogger Donnie Dicus &
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The Rising Tide: Certification
An education “reformer” floated a proposal to the Governor’s Classrooms First Council that would allow local education agencies (LEAs) to certify teachers independently. The Council agreed that local certification wasn’t a solution and would cause more harm than good.
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Chasing our Proverbial Tails
This has been a difficult post to sit down and write. Not because I cannot think of topics or policies to address, but because I have so many that I want to address. I have found myself
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