Category : “Current Affairs”

How Will We Walk the Talk? Conclusion

June 4, 2013Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Teacher Leadership

In Part One I asked, What will teachers finally say when we are given a voice at the policy-making table? Part Two profiled John Prosser, a teacher leader in Washington state, who facilitates the implementation of policy he helped negotiate. The conclusion features

Monty Python and the Metaphorical Impalement

May 19, 2013Mike Lee Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy

I’m confident that Rosa Parks didn’t “begin to have the difficult conversations” about bus seating.

How Will We Walk the Talk? Part Two

May 18, 2013Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Education Policy, Elementary, Teacher Leadership

“We did not put our ideas together. We put our purposes together.” Adam Kahane, Solving Tough Problems John Prosser is there. A teacher leader involved in policy-making. He began as a middle school teacher in the Seattle Tacoma area, then

The Obstinacy of Hope

May 16, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy

I endeavor to explain how I see hope as essential to a teacher’s job, and yet not quite the syrupy-sweet thing that many interpret from Dickinson’s famous poem. It’s more beaky.

Pre-emptive Strike: Teachers and Summer Vacation

May 5, 2013Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership

The public perceives that during summer vacation teachers take vacation. The teacher-leader community perceives that we work – planning for the new year, attending and presenting at conferences, and the like. I think the public perception is closer to the

How will we walk the talk? Part One

April 25, 2013Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Education Policy, Teacher Leadership

You’ve seen the cartoons. They’re very popular on teachers’ Facebook pages: A politician holding up a blank slate with the message, “This is the number of policy decisions teachers made when we gave them the chance.” A teacher standing in

Standardized Tests and Monty Hall

April 21, 2013Sandy Merz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Games, Life in the Classroom, Mathematics

I was proctoring my students during the standardized tests last week and thinking of how we try to train them to try to eliminate a couple of obvious wrong answers before guessing. Then I remembered the Monty Hall Problem. You

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What’s the temperature in my class?

April 10, 2013Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom

Blogger Julie Torres coordinates support for National Board candidates in our district. In that capacity she observes many teachers at their practice. In her recent post, 10 Degrees of Teaching, Julie takes the temperature of the current teaching environment and lists ten observations. After

Vulgar and Perilous Reforms

March 27, 2013Sandy Merz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Parent Involvment, Teacher Leadership

In 1790, conservative political philosopher Edmund Burke wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France: “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” Clay Shirky, expert on the role of social media and

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Observations regarding the 2012 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher

February 24, 2013Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Teacher Leadership

The annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, based on surveys of teachers and principals conducted between October and November, 2012, has just been released. Comparing its contents with last year’s report, media coverage, and the Society for Human Resource

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