If you’ve been paying any attention to national #edpolicy trends, you probably already know that North Carolina has become a leader in thinly-veiled attempts to straight gut reimagine the teaching profession. Our teachers are some of the lowest paid in the country — we currently
Today was a HUGE day for anyone who has ever grumbled about the damage that our “test-em-all” approach to teaching and learning is doing to public schools. You see, the 2013 PDK/Gallup Poll of Public Attitudes Towards Public Schools was released. I’m going to let
After spending the better part of the last two weeks grinding through end of grade testing with my students, I was feeling creatively drained tonight — so I whipped up a slide: (click to enlarge) Download: Slide_MaththatREALLYMattered I hope you dig it. And I hope you’ll remind
Blogger’s Note: This was a tough post to write. It feels like a confession that I should probably just keep to myself — but I gotta believe that other teachers of tested subjects are thinking the same thoughts as I am. While this isn’t super
Poking through my feed reader last Friday, I stumbled across this great Ted talk by digital pioneer and provocateur Seth Godin. In it, Godin argues that our schools need to change drastically if they are going to properly prepare today’s kids for tomorrow’s world. Traditional
