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An Urban Teacher's Education: TFA Alumnus Describes Barriers to Student Achievement
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Saturday, February 5, 2011. TFA Alumnus Describes Barriers to Student Achievement. How My School and District Failed its Students. The following is by Frank Beard, a graduate of Drake University and a former Teach For America corps member (Kansas City ’08). He taught middle school science, social studies, and communication arts in the Kansas City, Missouri School District. Or so I thought. Once that realization spread, the school effectively went from quality to chaos overni...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: What and Why We SHOULD Teach
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. What and Why We SHOULD Teach. It's time to give it up. I'm abandoning it whole-heartedly. Here and now. I'm leaving it behind forever. What am I talking about? Well, that chapter in my life is over. I'm declaring it dead here and now. Goodbye teacher technician. There is no right place in the world for you. Why am I doing this? Why kill the part of myself that so many teachers point to when asked what makes them good at what they do? Nearly thirty-tw...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Engaging Those Who Disagree Through Love and Vocation
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Monday, March 9, 2015. Engaging Those Who Disagree Through Love and Vocation. The board room was packed, and the tension was palpable. Scores of teachers and community members had turned out to tell the board not to sign a contract with Teach for America. When it was my turn to speak, I was angry. I was angry and frustrated. I tried to look into the eyes of the people behind the suits who I was speaking to, but it was difficult. I think that’s exactly what I was doing ...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Could You Make My Job More Difficult?
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Could You Make My Job More Difficult? In an effort to focus on the positive, I explained. Last week why I love working at my school. As much as it's a great opportunity for me, it's also an INCREDIBLE hassle. I think if people were more aware of the absurdities teachers deal with on an everyday basis, they might be less inclined to label schools 'failing,' or blame teachers for society's shortcomings. In December, I wrote about. It's a liability to...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Classroom Management 101
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Thursday, September 22, 2011. As a result of the time I've devoted to my new classroom, I've been away from education policy for a while. In fact, I don't have a clue what's going on in the world of education outside of my school (and the Tacoma teacher's strike. Therefore, I thought I'd blog on - get this - teaching. And analyzed it using the SOAPSTone. When class ended, I interviewed students on the way out: "How did it go this time? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Everyone ag...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: High-Stakes End of Course Exams Harm Students in Washington State
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. High-Stakes End of Course Exams Harm Students in Washington State. A study in 2013. By Kevin Lang and Olesya Baker at Boston University found that increases in high-stakes exit exams are linked to higher incarceration rates. John Papay, Richard Murnane, and John Willet at Harvard found that. When students from ACE met with my legislator, Senator Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island), she rightly asked if there wasn’t a collection of evidence (COE...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: CES Fall Forum: Day One
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Friday, November 9, 2012. CES Fall Forum: Day One. Today I worked in an all-day session on creating student-led classrooms at the CES Fall Forum. In Providence, Rhode Island. The presenters asked us to think about traditional models of schooling and scrutinize their rationales. As you would expect, they went on to argue that learning should be in service of exploring student wonderings and in places students learn best. Schools and teachers that do truly great, revolutionary...
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Awards & Publications. If you're interested in attending one of my writing classes, send me an email or call me. You are here: Home. 8220;Another thing I learned from Betsy Kalman is the power of gossip and our personal history in story-telling. A good bit of small-town gossip, a captains yarn, a lost seaman’s journal, and the character flaws of guys liked Tony “One-Eye” are all compelling elements of story that can and should. David Jacobsen, author of Rookie Dad: Thoughts on First-Time Fatherhood.
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Teach For America Corps Member Discusses TFA's Data Emphasis
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Monday, May 2, 2011. Teach For America Corps Member Discusses TFA's Data Emphasis. The following was prepared as a guest post for this blog by Mr. N, a biology teacher in East Los Angeles. He blogs at Two Years at the Blackboard. And has recently put together a series of posts on the TFA institute, which you can read here. Overdrive: Why TFA's Numbers Game Is Bad For Our Kids. 8221; “Relentless! 8221; “Kind! The examples of data abuse by TFA are numerous, but one in particul...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Teach for America: Here We Go Again
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Teach for America: Here We Go Again. It's been so long since I last complained about Teach for America, I apparently just couldn't go another day without. Now is a particularly conflicting time for me as some of the first students I taught are being accepted into Teach for America. In the last weeks, I've gotten more than a few Facebook messages from former students either telling me of their acceptance or asking my opinion. My frustration has me...
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