Leadership and Activism

A Students Response to Mitt Romney’s: A Chance for Every Child

Posted by Jabreel Chisley ⋅ August 13, 2012 ⋅ 1 Comment

First off, education is not a privilege. Education is something that is to be thought of as a right, a requirement, and a necessity. Education is something that we owe to children and adults for success both today and tomorrow. When you deny the right to access education, you are denying the right to live … Continue reading »

I Am A Student, and I Stand Against Students For Education Reform (SFER)

Posted by stephrrivera ⋅ August 8, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Originally Published at Teacher Under Construction “Empowering students to advocate for change.” It’s as if this organization was made just for me–just read my headline! If you take a few seconds to search around my blog documenting my vision, my involvement with students through mentoring and being a teachers assistant, my aspiration to be a future teacher, and restless … Continue reading »

#stuvoice

Posted by Tara S ⋅ July 23, 2012 ⋅ 1 Comment

Students are banding together to enhance their voice in policy discussions nationwide. Students everywhere are eager to join the conversation, especially regarding the future of their education system. Now is the time for our voice – the Student Voice – to be heard. That’s the theory behind the new site and blog project stuvoice.org. A place … Continue reading »

My Vision for Urban Education (Guest Post by Mark Naison)

Posted by dloitz ⋅ July 21, 2012 ⋅ 9 Comments

I am extremely critical of current trends in education policy which involve deluging schools with standardized tests and rating teachers, administrators and whole institutions based on test result. Such policies result in school disengagement on the part of students, destroy teacher morale, and magnify health problems in poor and working class communities by crowding out … Continue reading »

The Depth of a Simple Solution (Guest Post by Bryant Muldrew)

Posted by dloitz ⋅ July 20, 2012 ⋅ 1 Comment

In my work with the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP), I and my peers waged a dramatic struggle against the State of Maryland, Baltimore City, and the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS). The state of Maryland was (and still is) systematically underfunding the BCPSS. I discuss this in detail in the Case for the National … Continue reading »

Time to Speak

Posted by Jabreel Chisley ⋅ July 17, 2012 ⋅ 1 Comment

“We are all here for a reason on a particular path; you don’t need a curriculum to know you are apart of the math”- J.Ivy System: a scheme of ideas or principles by which something is organized, a method or set of procedures for achieving something. Abandon: to leave somebody or something for others to … Continue reading »

Democratizing composition: bringing together thoughts, people & resources

Posted by Chad Sansing ⋅ July 9, 2012 ⋅ 9 Comments

I’m increasingly concerned with democratizing composition, a pedagogy built on these beliefs: Writing is one form of composition or making, tantamount to the rest. All modes of composition are valid and valuable methods of expression. All modes of composition benefit from design thinking, rapid prototyping (a.k.a. repeated failure), iteration, and user feedback. The monopoly of … Continue reading »

The Educators’ Story: “The Teacher Faces the Depression” (1933)

Posted by pamelamoran ⋅ July 6, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

In 2001, I taught an History of “American” Education grad course and chose to use primary source documents mostly found on the Internet in lieu of an official “text.” This version of a blended learning environment offered us an antiquated chance to explore many narratives of education from the colonies forward, rather than those selected … Continue reading »

Solutionaries: Zoe Weil’s New TEDx Talk

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ July 2, 2012 ⋅ 5 Comments

I’m excited to share my new TEDxConejo talk: Solutionaries, which explores the challenges and opportunities for making choices that do the most good and least harm through our work, citizenship, and daily choices, and suggests ways to transform education at the root and embrace the power it has has to bring about a better world … Continue reading »

THE MINDFUL SCHOOL LEADER

Posted by Kirsten Olson ⋅ June 30, 2012 ⋅ 16 Comments

(Hey Folks, A version of this post is currently running at Education Week, and is written by Kirsten Olson and Valerie Brown.) The work of skillful, mindful leadership in education has never been more challenging. Recently a visionary, Twitter-connected and forward-thinking superintendent wrote to one of us describing her sense that the pockets of innovation and exemplary … Continue reading »

The Importance of Student Voice : a response to Diane Ravitch

Posted by Jabreel Chisley ⋅ June 27, 2012 ⋅ 5 Comments

“Student voice is now being invited to evaluate teachers, but I think that’s very bad idea. One more way to intimidate educators. ‪#soschat” @DianeRavitch (5:57 PM – 19 Jun 12) In public education voice is something that is tolerated with a sense of intolerance…meaning it is something that is lauded only for preaching the common … Continue reading »

857 wicked design problems

Posted by Chad Sansing ⋅ June 22, 2012 ⋅ 3 Comments

Amidst the traffic resulting from President Obama’s visit to Orlando, I thought of Arne Duncan in Washington, DC, and his 857 desks. I thought also of University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas and her 3 meetings. And I thought about walking around Epcot last night while talking politics and education with my mom, a happily … Continue reading »

Education: The Past, The Present and The Future #2

Posted by Paula White ⋅ June 16, 2012 ⋅ 10 Comments

You know you’ve read a good post when it makes you have several different thoughts about something important. While this post begins like another, it has a totally different ending… Recently I read an article from District Administrator magazine entitled, “The Three New Pillars of 21st Century Learning” … Continue reading »

Real Reform: What we DO want (?)

Posted by iteach4change ⋅ June 10, 2012 ⋅ 9 Comments

Easy way to get a new post – paste your treatise from another blog… Yesterday (Sat. 6/9) this was posted on BlueJersey: “There’s a lot written here about what we don’t like about the right wing education “reform” agenda – the attack on unions, privatization, etc. I’m at an education panel at Netroots Nation, and … Continue reading »

Why I Left the NEA

Posted by John T. Spencer ⋅ June 5, 2012 ⋅ 13 Comments

When the Arizona state legislature began cutting funding to education, I met with the union (the AEA, the affiliate of the NEA) and helped pass out fliers urging voters to speak out. When they passed anti-teacher legislation, I wore red and joined the protests. I blogged about it. I tweeted about it. I talked to … Continue reading »

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