Reform or Deform: Which is it?

Alaina Adams Assessment, Books, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership

  Like its sister-term, “accountability,” the term “reform” has had a few minutes of fame in education this year (see this swell piece by blogger-extraordinaire Nancy Flanagan). Here, Flanagan blatantly opens her piece with the statement, “Hello my name is

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We’ll Get What We Get, and We Should Throw A Fit

Mike Lee Education, Education Policy

If we do go down this path, there has to be an increase in up-front compensation for teachers. Who is going to invest $30,000 or more into the rising cost of a university education to go after a job that will leave them in debt and incapable of raising a family on its income? We’ll get what we pay for: a lack of talent and major shortages of quality instruction.

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Defining Moments

Daniela A. Robles Uncategorized

Our lives our benchmarked by defining moments. Many of us look at our lifetime and see moments that are personal and professional. The birth of my daughter was a defining moment, but so was leaving the classroom. There are moments

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Are you a bad teacher?

Donnie Dicus Uncategorized

Well, are you? A new movie coming out on June 24th asks that very question. www.areyouabadteacher.com I am so glad that spring break has come which has allowed me take time from grading papers, making lesson plans, and working on

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You’ve Been Served

Mike Lee Education, Elementary

I've been serving my teachers quite a bit, lately.  For the past few weeks I've had to publish several versions of potential and varied staffing assignments and share a whole host of ominous news about the looming funding crisis for

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