Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Say "Sayonara" to the Japanese Language Program at Langston Hughes Elementary

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Banner at the entrance to our school reads: "Welcome to Langston Hughes Elementary" For the first time in fifteen years, the s...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Teachers: How We Treat Each Other Matters

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Teachers are under attack. We know how our profession is being dismantled, our job protections are being systematically removed, and our wo...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

How &*%$ed Up is PARCC!?!

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The Chicago Public Schools testing window for the first round of PARCC testing is set to begin in just over one week, from March 9th-April 2...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

How the Sorting Game Hurts

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Chicago has a long, racist history of sorting kids by race and class, thanks largely to highly-segregated housing patterns.  But the neolibe...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

I Don't Know How to Teach Under EdReform

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It's formal observation time at my elementary school.  In the Chicago Public Schools, we have a new evaluation system that mandates a l...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Forget Winter, PARCC Is Coming...

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My school is drowning under the ridiculous Common Core Standards.  Everything I know to do to inspire my students is forbidden.  Instead, we...
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

How Testing is Destroying My School

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Testing is out of control in our schools.  I knew this before I stepped back into a public school classroom this past September after teach...
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