Don't miss this...

[YvonneCa]

...I AM Educator...Hear Me Roar! Video and interview:


http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2011/03/i_am_educator_hear_me_roar_an.html

Also posted it in GD.

[femmocrat]

1. Thanks, Yvonne. Great article.

I loved this paragraph:

"The other major gripe I have is this: if we really believed that accountability works, wouldn't we have accountability for all public servants? Why do we not require our legislators to make "Adequate Yearly Progress"? We have the data from their congressional districts, do we not? There is crime data, health care data, poverty figures, and drug use statistics for every state and federal legislative district. Why, exactly, do we not establish annual targets for our legislators to meet? We could eliminate 100% of poverty, crime, drug abuse, and preventable illness by 2014! "

Sounds good to me! :applause:

[YvonneCa]

2. Did you watch the video? n/t

[femmocrat]

5. No, I read the blog.

Worth reading!

[YvonneCa]

6. Absolutely. Video worth watching, too. n/t

[badhair77]

3. Excellent

I am so impressed a supt spoke on behalf of his teachers and his students. Mine was busy making deals for himself in a back room.

I also liked what John Kuhn had to say in his final answer, when he addressed one of the the current line of education celebrities.

[YvonneCa]

4. So was I. He is risking his career by...

...taking a stand. That is no small thing.

[spedtr90]

7. Interview is even better that the speech

The speech is amazing, but the interview is beyond words.

"....And that's when I realized that the school reform movement is populated by self-promoting snake oil salesmen, and our elected officials are buying their tonic by the truckload. It's hard for me to watch this train wreck slowly unfold."

"The assumption that the school reform movement doesn't permit negative outcomes requires you to believe that they fix kids when the hard, unmentionable truth is that they cull them. And I take the culled ones and do the best I can with them. And I'm good with this arrangement because you can't spin the story when you stand before God. God sees through the omissions and knows that the reformer above runs a magnet school and that I take all comers. He can convince the politicians and his readers if he wants to. I'm good with that. I'll soldier on."