Author Archives: Audrey Hill

Comment Left

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Audrey Hill

Comment left on a post by a writer named Zachary Wright who wrote a quick little piece for Education Post. Apparently, Wright had a long career in the classroom. He was a teacher of the year… a finalist for something something…. he spent 8 … Continue reading →

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The Babies are in the Bathwater

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Audrey Hill

Last summer, my husband was flying his little drone around the yard and it got tangled in a pine trees out of reach at 30 feet up.  I didn’t care about the drone. But, I got invested in solving the … Continue reading →

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Testing the hold a community has on its resources

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Audrey Hill

For some communities, high stakes testing is an unnatural disaster…. It’s a means for quietly but efficiently  transferring wealth away from public schools and into private hands… this is euphemistically called #choice but it is really the choice of no choice. … Continue reading →

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We feel the time is not right.

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Audrey Hill

Derrell Bradford, executive vice president of 50CAN, thinks the teacher strikes happening all over the country are unseemly and distasteful.  He thinks teachers should not model striking for fair wages and funding. After all, they are too college educated to engage in a dirty, blue collar, line … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Justice, Education Policy, Equity, Social Justice | 4 Comments

Responding to people responding to me responding to Robert Pondiscio

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Audrey Hill

Responding to your comment requires more than a tweet. I don’t know if we’re in disagreement. It depends a lot on definition and on course of action. We may disagree about what creativity is, what proficiency is and what we need to … Continue reading →

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You Need to Show Me

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Audrey Hill

It wasn’t a surprise when Betsy DeVos observed teachers “waiting to be told what they have to do.” If there was anything surprising it was that she bothered to comment on it.   It marked her as an outsider.  Everyone … Continue reading →

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A Brave New Word

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Audrey Hill

            Personalization is the newest word because when you’re marketing a new product, new words are needed and the right wording is everything. If you’re thinking that there’s something decidedly impersonal about personalization, you’re right; it … Continue reading →

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The One Right Answer

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Audrey Hill

First Principle: There is often more than one right answer and more than one way to get to a right answer. Depending on the kind of answers we’re looking for, your answer can be right even when it is different … Continue reading →

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A Meditation on Grit

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Audrey Hill

I believe in the principles of delayed gratification, teaching people to sustain effort through parts of a task that may be boring or difficult.  I agree that we do not sufficiently prepare for it.  It isn’t necessary that all work … Continue reading →

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What do I love about teaching for #30DaysReflectResist

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Audrey Hill

This was written for #30DaysReflectResist Day 5: What do I love about teaching? I love working with ideas and language. I love publishing… finding ways for students to display what they’ve created from their understanding: a video, a magazine, a … Continue reading →

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