I have a favorite song that I like to teach the little ones in my music class called “It Takes A Whole Village” and the words continue to say, “to raise a good child”. Of course we have heard this phrase many times and I don’t doubt that people believe it but I had an [...]
I recently read a blog post from Sabrina Stevens Shupe, an education advocate and former Denver teacher. This is an excerpt from her blog: “One main reason I stopped believing in the dominant narrative about school reform is because I experienced firsthand how top-down policy churn impacts teachers’ ability to focus on our actual work. [...]
Every year at this time the news, blogs and conversations I am exposed to are centered around standardized testing, most specifically in Colorado, they are centered around CSAP. Do people really ask the question: What is the value or point of standardized testing? The obvious answer of course is: so we can measure what students [...]
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