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How Educator's Dress for Work: Perception is Everything - The Educator's PLN

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How Educator's Dress for Work: Perception is Everything

Educators-Dress to Impress

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is."
It is my personal opinion that educators are professionals, who should dress "professionally" at school. I was inspired to write this blog post today because of the passionate responses I received from one of my tweets. The tweet "If we (educators) want to be respected as professionals, we should dress to impress, Jeans & polo shirt vs. shirt & tie: no brainer" received immediate response and follow up discussions. The debate centered on the correlation between professional teacher dress and "professionalism."


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My beliefs & values pertaining to professional dress are deep rooted. As a head coach it was important to me that my assistant coaches understood that they were a reflection of our team, our school and our community. We dressed
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Current DC administration continues Rhee tradition of bending the truth

Current DC administration continues Rhee tradition of bending the truth

Daily Kos: Medicaid is the stealth issue in the current budget debate

Daily Kos: Medicaid is the stealth issue in the current budget debate

Medicaid is the stealth issue in the current budget debate

That was the subject line of an email I received this morning. The author is Scott Lilly, now a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a long-time key staffer for former Rep. David Obey on the House Committee on Appropriations.

The text of the email was relatively short:

For the last couple of months I have been looking at the Medicaid program and what Ryan would do to it. Today we are posting a report on the proposal which I think you may find interesting. There is a great deal that most people don't know about Medicaid and one is that a very big share of the benefits go to protect middle class people and their families from financial disaster in the event of severe accidents, catastrophic illness of prolonged infirmity in old age. Another is that Medicaid has played a major role in the dramatic decline this country has achieved in preventing

2011 Survey results: Teachers are dissatisfied with the chancellor, and parents want smaller classes more than ever!!

NYC Public School Parents: 2011 Survey results: Teachers are dissatisfied with the chancellor, and parents want smaller classes more than ever!!

2011 Survey results: Teachers are dissatisfied with the chancellor, and parents want smaller classes more than ever!!

The 2011 DOE learning environment surveys are out; here is where you can find the results for your child's school; here is the citywide summary; here are some charts.

Two findings that immediately stood out for me:


Teachers really didn't like Cathy Black and/or Walcott; above is a chart showing their feelings about the chancellor, when the survey closed on April 15. (Strangely, the DOE claims on p. 11 here that Walcott's tenure started on April 18; but actually he started April 7. ). The majority of teachers were unsatisfied or very

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KIPP On Trickin’ — looking at the raw data

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