The story of an ‘offending’ blog post
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Here is a new piece from award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York. Burris was namedNew York’s 2013 High School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York and the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and in 2010, tapped as the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. She is the co-author of the New York Principals letter of concern regarding the evaluation of teachers by student test scores. It has been signed by more than 1,535 New York principals and more than 6,500 teachers, parents, professors, administrators and citizens. You can read the letter by clicking here.
By Carol Burris
I met Peter DeWitt, a principal from upstate New York, when he was doing his doctoral research. Peter courageously chose a topic few had explored at the time—whether and how schools safeguarded LGBT students. He chose my school as a study site because we had an active Gay/Straight Alliance and worked hard to make sure that all of our