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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Not Everyone Is Able to Tweet and Post Who They Really Are | Connected Principals

Not Everyone Is Able to Tweet and Post Who They Really Are | Connected Principals:



Not Everyone Is Able to Tweet and Post Who They Really Are




There is often much discussion around the separation of our professional and personal lives on social media.  Some districts strongly encourage this separation while others encourage the blending of both.  I have been a supporter of the latter as I believe that if we share who we are online we develop better relationships with others.  In December, I tweeted the following:



What I did not realize when I tweeted that, was that my view on the subject was coming from a lens of privilege – the lens of a middle class, white, heterosexual male.  Where I fell short in my tweet was that I failed to empathize with those whose lives are considered less acceptable to some.
When Royan brought this side to my attention… I stopped and thought about deleting the tweet, but then realized this is all part of the learning.  It was not my intention to be ignorant but by wearing my invisible napsack of privilege… I felt I 

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A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen, hosted by UTLA Bilingual Education Committee
  A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen by Robert D. SkeelsUTLA Bilingual Education CommitteeDr. Stephen Krashen Professor Emeritus University of Southern California A Critical Look at Common CoreWhat does it mean for our children? What are the implications for English Learners? and Dr. Katherine HayesChief Researcher LAUSD Best Practices for Organizing Classes with English Learn
High-stakes standardized tests and CCSS, they're a great way to measure… profits
High-stakes standardized tests & #CCSS, they're a great way to measure… profits. #LAUSD #edreform @skrashen @susanoha pic.twitter.com/Gn4LXB9KHi— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) February 4, 2014
SKrashen: A better way to deal with summer loss in reading: Libraries
SKrashen: A better way to deal with summer loss in reading: Libraries: Sent to the Seattle Times, Jan 31, 2014 There is a much cheaper and much more effective way to deal with summer learning loss than adding...


solidaridad: Help Student Organizers Travel to LA for EmpowerED 2014 Conference!
solidaridad: Help Student Organizers Travel to LA for EmpowerED 2014 Conference!: Help Student Organizers Travel to LA for EmpowerED 2014 Conference!On March 29th, student organizers from all over the country will converge upon Los Angeles to share their stories with the LA student community at a youth-led conference called EmpowerED: Los Angeles Student Power 2014. Pitch in to help get them here!

New York legislators ready to put Common Core Standards and student data collecting on hold | Seattle Education

New York legislators ready to put Common Core Standards and student data collecting on hold | Seattle Education:



New York legislators ready to put Common Core Standards and student data collecting on hold

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This just in:
The leaders of both houses of the New York State legislature have called for a two year moratorium on the Common Core. The Governor has also expressed concern with the implementation.  In addition the electeds shunned I Bloom – the data portal. The Board of Regents will hear a report from a Task Force on Monday.  
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Senate Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Senate Education Chair John Flanagan Call for Delay of Common Core and Sharing of Student Privacy Data
Senators Skelos, Klein and Flanagan issued the following statement:
     We continue to support the goals of an improved education curriculum
that increases standards and ensures that students are college and career
ready.
     However, after having spent months listening to parents, teachers,
administrators and educational professionals at public hearings conducted
throughout New York State, it is our belief that while the implementation

DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Those Teachers Just Want a Day Off!": Are Teachers Ever "Off"?

DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Those Teachers Just Want a Day Off!": Are Teachers Ever "Off"?:



"Those Teachers Just Want a Day Off!": Are Teachers Ever "Off"?


"Those teachers just want a day off!"


She didn't know I was a teacher.She laughed it off when my husband and I told her. "Well, I guess I better 
watch what I say about teachers then, huh?"

Too late.

My hubby and I found ourselves in the emergency room before school closings were announced. (He's good now). The nurse did not know whether schools were closed. The above was her response after I informed her that her son's school was closed.

Of course, I had to school her. :)

1. It's not the teachers who decide to close schools due to the weather.

2. The schools are closed for the safety of your child.

3.  Multiple snow days become unbearable for us because our students are 

Wish we could show this in every classroom. Great lesson that... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com

Wish we could show this in every classroom. Great lesson that... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com:



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Wish we could show this in every classroom. Great lesson that disability does not define a person. 

I have a new hero. He's 12. Wish all kids could see this video to hear Trenton Cochran explain so eloquently why his little sister Lindsay is neither defined nor limited by her disability.
"Just because she's different doesn't mean she doesn't fit in. Sometimes, people will stare at her," he says. "It's like, normal person here. Human being."





Pressure Mounting to Halt Evaluations Tied to Common Core - WNYC

Pressure Mounting to Halt Evaluations Tied to Common Core - WNYC:



Pressure Mounting to Halt Evaluations Tied to Common Core

Tuesday, February 04, 2014 - 06:18 PM

Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch, left, and Education Commissioner John King release 2013 state test scores. (Beth Fertig)
Legislative leaders are calling for a two-year break before the state uses its new exams to evaluate teachers or principals. In a bi-partisan push, lawmakers said the Board of Regents and the State Education Department should help local school districts develop curriculum materials adjusted to the new Common Core learning standards. 
But Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged patience. His communications director, Melissa DeRosa, issued a statement defending a "meaningful teacher evaluation system" and the Common Core learning standards adopted by many states.
However, she said Cuomo "believes that the way that Common Core has been managed by the Board of Regents is flawed, leading to too much uncertainty, confusion and anxiety among students and their parents. The strength of public education in New York is dependent on a rational system that is well administered."

Cuomo announced two weeks ago that he would assemble his own panel of experts and legislators to identify flaws in the roll-out and take corrective action by June. DeRosa 

Choosing Democracy: Education Bill of Rights - James Meredith

Choosing Democracy: Education Bill of Rights - James Meredith:





Education Bill of Rights - James Meredith

James Meredith.
by Valerie Straus. The Answer Sheet.  Washington Post
Calling modern school reform “catastrophically misguided and ineffective,” civil rights icon James Meredith is launching what he calls the American Child’s Education Bill of Rights, a 12-point declaration of obligations that he says the nation owes every public school child.
The 80-year-old Meredith was the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. placed Meredith first on his own list of heroes in his 1963 Letter From a Birmingham Jail:
“Some day the South will recognize its real heroes. They will be the James Merediths, courageously and with a majestic sense of purpose facing jeering and hostile mobs and the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer.”


In 1966 Meredith was  shot while leading a march that helped open the gates of voter registration to thousands of black citizens in the South. He later earned a law degree at Columbia University. In 2013, he was awarded the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the school’s highest honor, and he is the recipient of the 2014 winner of the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence.

Meredith, who now drives his grandchildren to public school in Jackson, Miss., every day said:
“We are losing millions of our children to inferior schools and catastrophically misguided and ineffective so-called education reforms. Our schools are being destroyed by politics, profit, greed and lies,” he adds. “Instead of evidence-based practices, money has become the engine of education policy, and our schools are being hijacked by politicians, non-educators and for-profit operators. Parents, teachers, citizens and community elders must arm ourselves with the best evidence and take back control of our children’s public education before it is too late. We all must work together to improve our public schools, not on the basis of profit or politics, but on the basis of evidence, and on the basis of love for America’s children.”
The Education Bill of Rights identifies 12 basic education rights for every American child, all based on his career as a social activist as well as discussions with thousands of students, parents, teachers and education experts across America. It was written with William Doyle, the co-author of  Meredith’s 2012 memoir, “A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America,” who was recently named to the Fulbright Scholars Program Specialist roster for 2013-2018.
Meredith said that billions of dollars now spent on standardized testing and “so-called education reforms” can be better spent to help children.
“If we do not commit to this course as a national emergency, America is headed for disaster.”
Meredith urges Americans to join a national debate on the American Child’s Education Bill of Rights, and to add their own ideas, on his Facebook page: www.facebook.com/jamesmeredithusa

The American Child’s Education Bill of Rights

Every American public school child has the right to: Choosing Democracy: Education Bill of Rights - James Meredith:

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James Baldwin said it best: 

"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."


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2-4-14 The Whole Child Blog - Connecting the Classroom to the Capitol — Whole Child Education
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: False Consciousness
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"Making Education Work for Latinas" | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity
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Remarks by the President on ConnectED | The White House
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2-4-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD
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Were kids actually smarter decades ago?: Student achievement data trends (NAEP, etc.) | Cloaking Inequity
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Paul Horton: Why Obama's Education Policies Will Not Change and Why "Change is Hard" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
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NYSUT president calls internal challenge a U.F.T. power grab | Capital New York
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Bruce Rauner's charter school, a pawn in his political game
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FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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Morning Wink 2-4-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 2-4-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
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2-4-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
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2-4-14 Wait What?
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@ The Answer Sheet 2-4-14
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GoPublicSchool.com « An open discussion of public school issues. GoPublicSchool.com
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Aggressive public relations campaign amplifies courtroom battle against teacher work rules | Hechinger Report
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The Benefits of 'Repeating' Subject Matter - Bridging Differences - Education Week
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Revolving Door Undermines the Democratic Process | janresseger
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NYC Educator: "Revive NYSUT" Is Really "Rebury NYSUT"
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Special Late Nite Cap EXTRA 2-3-14 #EDCHAT #P2 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk
Nite Cap EXTRAEXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRAWhatever happened to NCLB ?NCLB reaches 12 years.  Is it still an operative law? Under  the No Child Left Behind  law (Public Law 107-110, 2001) 100 % of  students were to achieve proficiency in math and reading by 2014.  The law was due for re-authorization in 2009.  It has not been re-authorized.   Education Secretary Arne Duncan responded to criticism by  gr
Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 2-3-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMActive/Retired Teacher Attacks: Connecticut, Illinois and (Your State HERE)Stealing money from old people has become common by legislatures nationwide. Now, it’s also fine to steal from those who hope to someday have the possibility of growing old. The plundering of money that people honestly earned by paying into private pension plans h
2-3-14 EmpathyEducates!– What Could Be Wrong With ‘School Choice’?
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solidaridad: Help Student Organizers Travel to LA for EmpowerED 2014 Conference!
solidaridad: Help Student Organizers Travel to LA for EmpowerED 2014 Conference!: Help Student Organizers Travel to LA for EmpowerED 2014 Conference!On March 29th, student organizers from all over the country will converge upon Los Angeles to share their stories with the LA student community at a youth-led conference called EmpowerED: Los Angeles Student Power 2014. Pitch in to help get them here!
The Charter School Gravy Train | Seattle Education
The Charter School Gravy Train | Seattle Education: The Charter School Gravy TrainAn education advocate in New York brought this article to my attention today. It was published last year in Forbes magazine and is relevant today in Seattle, Washington.Charter School Gravy Train Runs Express To Fat CityOn Thursday, July 25, dozens of bankers, hedge fund types and private equity investors gathered in
LAUSD'S TREACHEROUS ROAD FROM REED TO VERGARA- IT'S NEVER BEEN ABOUT STUDENTS, JUST MONEY - Perdaily.com
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Nite Cap 2-3-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPToni Morrison Gives a Lesson in Unpacking Assumptions and the White Gaze | educarenowToni Morrison Gives a Lesson in Unpacking Assumptions and the White Gaze | educarenow: Toni Morrison Gives a Lesson in Unpacking Assumptions and the White GazePo