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Resist the Tests 2016 | FairTest
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Signup Weekly News Updates. Resist the Tests 2016. Submitted by fairtest on March 15, 2016 - 12:00pm. This page lists standardized test resistance, refusal and reform actions and events by state. These include opting out, public forums and meetings, rallies, news conferences, legislative action days, and more. If you have an action or event to share, let us know at fairtest@fairtest.org. And we will post it here. You can use the hashtags #resistthetests. To post your actions on Facebook and Twitter.
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PARCC Testing & Opt Out Choices - James G. Blaine School PTA
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PARCC Testing and Opt Out Choices. Blaine PTA in the News. Student Groups and Events. Blue Jay Snack Bar. Other Ways to Support the PTA. You have a choice about parcc testing! Require 10 hours of class time, plus preparation. Do not help guide your child's learning—last year's results arrived 5 months after the test. Have not been properly field tested. 8203;Are poorly designed and confusing (see practice tests at parcc.pearson.com). We'd be happy to help! To Opt OUt At Blaine.
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Ms. Katie's Ramblings: August 2014
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Friday, August 29, 2014. Parents of Chicago: Questions You Must Ask About Your Child’s School This Year. 1) How many teachers/staff left the year before and why? 2) Are there positions left unfilled and why? It is possible your child will begin the school year with long term subs. Be angry about this, especially if the position was filled the year before. That teacher was likely run off by the chaos. 3) What is the situation with substitutes? CPS has many teacher positions filled with Teach For America.
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Bridging the Ditch | The Treehorn Express
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Featuring the occasional email conversation between Phil Cullen in Australia and Allan Alach in New Zealand, as they work together to restore quality child centred education to the two countries. 8212;————-. We seem to have dropped the casual correspondence ‘across the ditch’. I’ve been wanting to express some mundane feelings that I am entertaining at the moment following a nostalgic return to a couple of old haunts over last week-end. Down the road came Laughing Mary, and the beast that she bestrode.
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Chicago Teachers Union Rejects Common Core Standards | The Classroom Sooth
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Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms. Take Action for Better Schools. Chicago youth voted at a higher rate than their parents in IL Gubernatorial Primary. Posting the 2014-2015 Chicago Public Schools Testing Calendar here →. Chicago Teachers Union Rejects Common Core Standards. May 7, 2014. 8230;and all the testing that comes with it. See y’all at AFT in July. Anyone want to hit up NEA in Denver on the way out? Now that the resolution has passed, the CTU will lobby the Illin...
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Posting the 2014-2015 Chicago Public Schools Testing Calendar here | The Classroom Sooth
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Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms. Take Action for Better Schools. Chicago Teachers Union Rejects Common Core Standards. IL Passes Civics Bill, still needs timeline for implementation →. Posting the 2014-2015 Chicago Public Schools Testing Calendar here. August 14, 2014. CPS SY15 Assessment calendar-district schools. Hard to access unless you’re an employee. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. And tagged Chicago Public Schools. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Brown vs Boa...
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Chicago youth voted at a higher rate than their parents in IL Gubernatorial Primary | The Classroom Sooth
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Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms. Take Action for Better Schools. CICS CQ4U UPDATE: Action Tonight! Chicago Teachers Union Rejects Common Core Standards →. Chicago youth voted at a higher rate than their parents in IL Gubernatorial Primary. May 7, 2014. According to the Early and Often study. Prepared by the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. Critiqing GOP Gubernatorial candidates via the WTTW Youth Forum (debate), organizing a Voter Registration party attended ...
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CICS CQ4U UPDATE: Action Tonight! | The Classroom Sooth
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Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms. Take Action for Better Schools. Charter School Teachers on a Mission for Change. Chicago youth voted at a higher rate than their parents in IL Gubernatorial Primary →. CICS CQ4U UPDATE: Action Tonight! April 28, 2014. The staff of CICS ChicagoQuest, who announced in December their decision to unionize. Below is a media advisory, and if you’d like to get the day-of press release, please let me know. Here are some links that might be useful.
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The Classroom Sooth | Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms | Page 2
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Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms. Take Action for Better Schools. Newer posts →. Hearts and Minds: Teaching and Learning the Relevant and Valuable. December 3, 2013. Share widely, and please let me know what resonates with viewers in the comments below. Thx! To many, many groups and individuals who helped both -knowingly and not- in the production of this film including:. Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Center for Action Civics, Meira Levinson. November 15, 2013.
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“Charter School Teachers on a Mission for Change” | The Classroom Sooth
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Tales for A Better Learning Environment in a Variety of Classrooms. Take Action for Better Schools. I just took the Practice PARCC exam, and boy, do I feel…. CICS CQ4U UPDATE: Action Tonight! Charter School Teachers on a Mission for Change. April 1, 2014. I applaud the members of the. American Federation of Teachers Alliance for Charter Teachers and Staff. And their newest members in Chicago both of UNO Charter Schools and Chicago Quest. Teachers on a Mission for Change. Has failed to recognize the union...
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