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It started with that small firestorm about the Duluth cartoon… canonized at the74 by Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN…  when it became clear that acknowledging the burdens that children come in with is labeling them. And it built up as the #thisteachersees … Continue reading →

Dear @juscohen, So what’s a teachers job then? Unconnected to whether the kids can meet a high bar? I’m going to answer your questions although you may not have meant them to be answered. Nonetheless,  like Charlie Brown and his football… … Continue reading →

Dear Teachers, We’d like to have better conversation.  We want to work cooperatively with you to bring better education to America.  #marketbased Let’s start with what we’ve got. We’ve got… Change You Can Believe In. Here are a few facts: 1) … Continue reading →

Bailey Reimer, a teacher in Chicago, has been teaching her kindergartners to love testing.  She considers their well trained, enthusiastic love of it to be the key to her students’ futures.  Her theory is that the more they welcome being evaluated, the better they will do throughout … Continue reading →

Taken from 99%.com,  an annotated list of the top 10 traits of project managers, paraphrased and repurposed for the classroom.  A good teacher will: 1. Command respect naturally. In other words, they don’t need borrowed power from administration in order … Continue reading →

The Obama administration believes in balancing how sorry they are with how little sorry  the public will go for… always short of the  real course correction that would make friends of adversaries.   Clearly, they need a scripted curriculum.  Here’s … Continue reading →

This is a response to Dmitri Melhorn’s post via Jersey Jazzman 1) Using evidence collected by organizations that have potential conflict of interest is problematic. This entire argument hinges on data collected by sources that are not considered impartial. 2) … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I read a tweet from someone who had just signed and invited others to sign to pledge to believe that all students can learn.  It got me thinking about social media activism: what it is… what it isn’t. Tweeting, … Continue reading →

Even though his policies were thumbs up to privatization. Even though he supported the use of hypothetical standards as if they were actual.  Even though his practice of blackmailing states through their coffers is a continuing hazard to democracy. Even … Continue reading →

We were fortunate to have Dr. Tisch come and visit our school recently to talk with our teachers, administrators and community members about policies that impact schools and their stakeholders in New York State.  She was very gracious in her … Continue reading →