Teaching With Heart in the New Millennium
Lisa Alva Wood
Today’s InterACT guest blogger is Lisa Alva Wood, a National Board Certified high school English teacher from Los Angeles. Her prior guest blog posts include Next Steps for LAUSD Teacher Evaluations: You, Me, and AGT, and Is the Mayor Listening?
Teaching is being redefined.
Sitting in recently for a detained LAUSD Superintendent Dr. John Deasy on KLCS Teachers’ Hour, I talked with a pair of teachers who represent the future of teaching – your future. Dawn Cardon teaches at Locke High School, Paul Payne at L.A. River School; they are both respected colleagues who have contributed much to their students and our profession. They discussed what is required to teach at today’s urban schools: unquestioning dedication; total collaboration; almost total self-sacrifice.
Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles have a new tentative agreement that says