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4th Grade Bellevue, WA Teacher Objects to Administering Smarter Balanced Test | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. 4th Grade Bellevue, WA Teacher Objects to Administering Smarter Balanced Test. March 5, 2015. Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Linda Myrick, a 4th grade teacher in Bellevue, WA – and a member of the Washington Badass Teachers Association – objected to the administration of Smarter Balanced Assessments before the Bellevue School Board. You may see her speech here. Good afternoon, members of the board, Dr. Mills. I am the Lorax. I speak for the kids. But, I have watched ...
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The #Renton4 Request a Response and Ask Renton School Board to Inform Parents of #OptOut Rights | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. The #Renton4 Request a Response and Ask Renton School Board to Inform Parents of #OptOut Rights. February 12, 2015. February 12, 2015. It is been two weeks since we delivered our Letters of Professional Conscience. To the Renton School Board. We have not received a response from them to date, thus we were prompted to speak to them again this evening. Julianna Krueger-Dauble went to the podium, while Becca Ritchie, Susan DuFresne and two supportive teachers st...
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Teachers: A Call to Conscience | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. Teachers: A Call to Conscience. February 8, 2015. February 8, 2015. 8220;My conscience leaves me no other choice.”. 8211; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 4th, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his. 8220;Beyond Vietnam”. 8220;My conscience leaves me no other choice.”. Dr King went on and. 8220;insisted that it was morally imperative for the U.S. to take radical steps to halt the war through nonviolent means (King, ‘ Beyond Vietnam,’ 139). In a Q and A.
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Our Objections | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. We begin with a definition of the word “conscience” and we leave you with one example of our Teachers’ Letters of Professional Conscience. Feel free to use these words, revise, or edit as you wish. We have made them generic so that you can add your test names and teacher names to these objections to personalize them. Add your personal reasons for the following objections here, followed by:). For these reasons, I cannot remain silent. I do NOT need this standa...
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Ken Foster’s Open Letter to Ms. Trina Newton, Superintendent | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. Ken Foster’s Open Letter to Ms. Trina Newton, Superintendent. February 8, 2015. February 10, 2015. Attn: Ms. Trina S. Newton, Superintendent of Schools. Administration Center, Geneva City School District. 400 West North St. Geneva, NY 14456. Open Letter to Ms. Trina Newton. Dear Ms. Newton:. The Governor and State Legislature have acknowledged that the roll-out of new assessments is flawed and, therefore, have delayed consequences for students for several yea...
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A Growing Movement of Teachers of Conscience: More in Seattle Refuse to Administer the #SBA/#SBAC Tests – | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. A Growing Movement of Teachers of Conscience: More in Seattle Refuse to Administer the #SBA/#SBAC Tests –. March 27, 2015. March 27, 2015. There are many ways teachers are fighting back against the Common Core high stakes tests. We delivered our Letters of Professional Conscience. To our school board, and Seattle teachers are finding new ways to empower teachers, parents, and students by refusing to administer the test. 1 Not required for graduation. 3 Since ...
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. Our conscience leaves us no other choice…. As Teachers of Professional Conscience we object to the use of toxic high stakes testing. We object to the commodification of children as a source of income for testing corporations. We object to the sorting, ranking, labeling, and culling of children based on high stakes test scores. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
