Teacher convention, Day 2: Delegates push back | The Education Report

Teacher convention, Day 2: Delegates push back | The Education Report

Teacher convention, Day 2: Delegates push back

By Katy Murphy
Friday, April 8th, 2011 at 8:08 pm in initiatives, students, teachers.

The first-ever Oakland Teacher Convention took an interesting turn this afternoon (or maybe, before then) when some of the 200 delegates expressed frustration and disappointment with today’s sessions, drawing hearty applause.

The discontent was strong enough to cause the event organizers on the Effective Teaching Task Force to change the plan for Saturday. (That’s what they’re doing in the above photo.)

From what I heard, there was a lot of talking to teachers — rather than with teachers — about the district’s various task forces, during morning sessions designed to provide context. In the afternoon, teachers were asked to review the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (Side note: Some of this was