Teaching Ahead Roundtable at EdWeek
This week I’m one of the guest authors in “Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable” over at EdWeek. The current topic is the public perception of teachers. My post, titled “Four Ways for Teachers to ‘Engage’“, begins:
Polls show most Americans have favorable views of their children’s schools and teachers, so how do we explain the amount of negativity in the nation’s broader educational discourse?
I think we’re witnessing a collision of factors narrowing the storyline of American public education and educators. Economics, politics, and the media all have helped propel us toward what novelist Chimamanda Adichie calls “the danger of the single story.” If American public schools and students are failing, as we hear repeatedly and without qualification, then America’s teachers must
