Category : “Teacher Leadership”

Long Overdue

August 19, 2011Mike Lee Education, Elementary, Teacher Leadership

Here’s to the best of the best: talent that we don’t deserve, but that our children do.

What Do Teachers and Jersey Shore Have in Common?

August 16, 2011Alaina Adams Assessment, Books, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Mentoring, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership, Web/Tech

One exhausted night at the end of May 2011, I got sucked into a Jersey Shore marathon and began to wonder if teachers could “GTL” like the overly-tanned and overly-paid reality show MTV characters. According to the oh-so-charming Mike “The

Whose Responsibility Is It?

June 22, 2011Jen Robinson Education, Education Policy, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

Every school needs good teachers who step up and accept responsibility for their teaching and student learning. In the same respect every school needs strong administration to hold teachers responsible for their teaching and of student learning. What happens when

Oops. I Used My Outside Voice.

June 2, 2011Mike Lee Current Affairs, Education Policy, Teacher Leadership

So, read at your own risk and have your blood pressure medication nearby. I’m about to defend Teach For America.

Duck on a Bike

May 25, 2011Jen Robinson Elementary, Literacy, Teacher Leadership

As the year comes to a close I begin to inventory and pack curriculum and materials away for the summer. During the school year, I have crates of books from when I was in the classroom out for teachers

Value Added Part II

April 27, 2011Eve Rifkin Assessment, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership

I wonder what, in recent history, has suggested that the world of business has anything to even offer the world of education. In just the past couple of years, business models have messed up the economy as well as the gulf of Mexico. Why on earth would we be looking to business to help us figure out how to better educate our kids?

Reform or Deform: Which is it?

April 18, 2011Alaina Adams Assessment, Books, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership

Like its sister-term, “accountability,” the term “reform” has had a few minutes of fame in education this year (see this swell piece by blogger-extraordinaire Nancy Flanagan). Here, Flanagan blatantly opens her piece with the statement, “Hello my name is

“Oh, the Humanity!”

April 4, 2011Alaina Adams Assessment, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership

Now that I've moved into the last grading period of the school year, the magnitude of the year has started to sink in. In August, I felt scared – the national trends in education seemed daunting and overwhelming (to say the

Road to Nowhere

February 16, 2011Jen Robinson Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Teacher Leadership

I have been thinking about what this post would look like for some time, now. Last spring I was on my way to a conference and I happened to tune into an interview with Diane Ravitch. At the time she

The Heart of Teaching

February 7, 2011Alaina Adams Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment, Professional Development, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership

February brings many flutters and shudders for teachers. The flutters are connected to the chocolate, Sweetheart candy, and wonderfully-sappy cards that tell us how we’re the best teachers ever. The shudders come from a month full of test-prep and the emergence of

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