Oakland teacher speaks at the White House - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Oakland teacher speaks at the White House - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Oakland teacher speaks at the White House

By Katy Murphy
Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 5:16 pm in charter schools, teachers.

Laura Kretschmar, a newly National Board-certified teacher who teaches math and science at Lighthouse Community Charter School in East Oakland, spoke at a White House forum about the teaching profession this week with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Also there is Dan Brown, whose book (“The Great Expectations School”) I just finished reading.

Check out the video here. Laura’s the second person in from the left. She starts speaking around 39 minutes.

Here’s a note she wrote to her colleagues about the experience and forwarded to me to post:

Hey everyone!

I still can’t believe I was at the White House yesterday morning on a panel with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and former colleague and friend who facilitated the panel–Genevieve DeBose, plus the other National Board Certified teachers on the panel and in the room. I spoke mostly to the importance of school design models