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Lessons from Washington State « InterACT

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Lessons from Washington State

Jim Meadows

Jim Meadows, WA Education Assoc.

Last Friday I had the opportunity to spend most of the day in the company of one of my favorite people in education land. Jim Meadows is on the staff of the Washington Education Association, and has been playing an integral role in making Washington one of the states to watch in education reform. He’s doing it within the umbrella of the state teachers union, and he was in California last week at a CTA Good Teaching Conference talking to California teachers and union leaders about how we too might work within the union to promote better teaching and learning.

You might not hear the self-annointed education reformers of the charter school and fake accountability