First Day Of Classes Opening Thread
After two days of meetings, professional development and other things that made me want to stick a pencil through my eye, today is finally the first day of classes.About the only thing that keeps me in this job is the enjoyment I get working with students and teaching my classes.The rest of the stuff - the Common Core meetings, the PD, the forced professional learning communities jive, the focus g
APPR Teacher Evaluation System Mess Thread
James Eterno at ICEUFT blog describes how you can get the same score in the APPR teacher evaluation system and either be "developing" or "ineffective," depending upon, well, nobody's sure what it depends upon:We knew teachers at a phasing out school would be at a huge disadvantage in terms of the ratings in Advance and informed you of our concerns when you visited Jamaica last
Cuomo Took $1.25 Million In Donations From Companies That Won State Economic Development Grants
From Glenn Blain and Ken Lovett at the Daily News: ALBANY — Several companies run by big-time donors to Gov. Cuomo have won millions of dollars in state economic development grants since he took office, state records show. At least seven companies that received a total of $15.25 million in grants from state Regional Economic Development Councils are linked to $1.25 million in donations to Cuomo’s
9-3-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Cuomo: Debates Are Bad For DemocracyYou just can't make this stuff up:Mr. Cuomo’s primary challengers include Zephyr Teachout, a law professor, whose candidacy has attracted attention of late partly because of the governor’s simultaneous concern about it (he tried to get her removed from the ballot) and refusal to acknowledge it exists (he avoids uttering Ms. Teachout’s name