Teachers, like any other profession, should be evaluated and held accountable for their job performance. I don’t honestly know anyone who doesn’t believe this. If you listen to many of the ed reformers though, you’d think otherwise. I found this rather bizarre tweet from a StudentsFirst blogger in my Twitter feed today, retweeted by StudentsFirst…
read more »It has been a REALLY long time since I’ve written, and I think it’s just because I am so incredibly busy and exhausted that I haven’t had the time. Rather than try to catch up on stuff since the last post, here are some little things that I am grateful for. The notes my kids…
read more »This month I’ve gotten the rare chance to spend Sunday evenings without planning or preparation. After finishing my second long term substituting assignment at my school in March, I become a collaboration teacher and day to day sub wherever I’m needed. On collaboration days (Tuesday and Thursday) I teach World Languages and Culture to students…
read more »It’s been an interesting week in education news. Michelle Rhee is taking heat for her failure to acknowledge a memo regarding cheating in her district, and Ben Chavis’s American Indian Public Charter School had its charter revoked by the Oakland Unified School District because of Chavis’s money embezzlement. It comes to my mind that so…
read more »Teach for America is coming to my hometown. Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, they will be bringing in a small group of about 30 corps members to test the waters and see if they can develop a good working presence in San Diego. I was initially wary when I learned the news. San Diego…
read more »The 2012-2013 school year has been a blur; with only forty days left, it still feels like I’ve barely gotten into it. I’ve spent the entire year in a substitute role at my charter school, and I’m eager- or maybe desperate- to find a job as a full time teacher, hopefully at the same school. …
read more »Y’all, this is getting ridiculous. Again, I find myself in the Broadway Starbucks of Little Rock. Thinking about what life this summer could look like if I lived here, thinking about how I can lift myself up, thinking about the world at large and how we operate within it. I have a journal open in…
read more »I’ve had the opportunity to run two half-marathons in my life. The one thing I was always told by my more experienced runner friends is the pain undergone once you hit mile 10. There is something about miles 10-13 in a half-marathon that, for at least newbie runners like myself, is absolutely exhausting, painful, and…
read more »It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on here. It’s been a busy, crazy year, but I’ve finally managed to pull something coherent. In the past couple of months, I’ve had quite a lot of experiences that have shaped my opinions on not only my experience as a corps member, but on Teach For America…
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Wow, I’ve done a bad job blogging my first year of teaching. I have 5 weeks of school left and I haven’t written a single blog entry all year. I’ve thought about doing it a few times throughout the year, but honestly it always just seemed like ONE MORE THING to pile on my plate,…
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