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. [...]
I recently read an article about how Kindergarten is the new first grade. It was fairly accurate about what is expected in kindergarten now vs. a few years ago. At the end of kindergarten, students are expected to be reading at the level of what used to be expected somewhere during the first grade year. [...]
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