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Vol.#2: Measuring My 2¢ On Merit
In April, our school’s benchmark results were emailed to the entire staff. When analyzing the language arts department’s results, my students’ projected growth – the percentage projected to meet their...
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Vol.#28: The Blame Game
Edit 6/9/13: Updates and corrections to this blog post on this week’s post here. Attention: Rant about the current critical period for the teachers in my state of North Carolina forthcoming. You’ve...
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Vol.#29: Well, A Happy Anniversary to Me
Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theresasthompson/2311733808/ Today marks one-year from my very first post on “Teaching Speaks Volumes” titled Vol.#1: Saying Goodbye. I had planned on writing...
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Vol.#31: Change, Change, Change (Change of Fools)
The NC legislature, which has sparked the weekly peaceful protests known as “Moral Monday“, named budget conferees last week. The first 17 people arrested back in April (out of the almost 500 arrests...
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Vol.#34: “Thank God For North Carolina”
I assume many of you saw the scathing editorial in the NY Times titled “The Decline of North Carolina” about the Moral Monday protests, or at least, the political decision-making fueling them. You may...
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Vol.#35: Do NC teachers really deserve more money?
Click to go to the video. Apologies that WordPress would not embed. Last week’s post got an insane amount of attention and was even featured in the news: It surprised me, to say the least. I spent the...
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Vol.#36: My Letter to Pat McCrory [Guest Post]
Monday, our State Superintendent June Atkinson released this statement with this opening line: “For the first time in my career of more than 30 years in public education, I am truly worried about...
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Vol.#41: The White Flag [Guest Post]
Image credit: Pixabay user Goemedien This week, four more teachers on my school’s staff announced that they are leaving the classroom for greener pastures. These losses are in addition to the language...
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Vol.#45: Why Doesn’t George Clooney Have to Deal With This Crap?
It was September 2000. My first year teaching. Greenville County, South Carolina. A math teacher on my hall, whose name escapes me now, left on maternity leave. The woman they got to sub for her was a...
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Vol.#55: Is the NC Goal “First in Teacher Flight”?
It may be only be six weeks after New Year’s, but already both the state of North Carolina and Wake County have grave concerns about filling the needed teaching positions for next school year. And so...
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VOL.#57: Open Letter to Senator Tillman [GUEST POST]
Image Credit: flickr user theparadigmshifter We have discussed the North Carolina General Assembly’s systematic dismantling of NC education from our unacceptable frozen salaries which rank us...
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Vol. #60: Save Your Wallet Fiscal Conservatives! Invest in Education!
The current misguided philosophy is that tax payers are paying for “results” (ie: standardized testing scores) out of their teachers. Besides the simple fact that standardized tests don’t measure...
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Vol.#78: Never The Destination
I read Karl Fisch’s great post over at The Fischbowl about the word “accountability” and how too many in education erroneously equate it with using standardized testing to justify educational actions...
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Vol.#85: Toil & Trouble
As testing season soon approaches, visions of #edreform dance like sugar plums in teachers’ heads… Just one of those that’s been dancing in mine. Carry on.
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