This morning all educators in the state received an email from State Superintendent Mark Johnson entitled "The Truth About Read to Achieve." Here is the entire text: Educators – Unanimous political agreement is rare these days, but the truth is everyone - Democrats, Republicans, and Independents - agree on at least one … Continue reading The Thin Truth About “The Truth About Read to Achieve” Letter From Mark Johnson
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About Those Vague & Amorphous “Talking Points” from the Executive Director of the NCAPCS (North Carolina Association of Public Charter Schools)
Below is a copy of a letter / email from Rhonda Dillingham, the Executive Director of the North Carolina Association For Public Charter Schools to charter school advocates in the state concerning the growing criticism of the unregulated charter school growth in NC. It begins, "At our conference a few weeks ago, I shared with you … Continue reading About Those Vague & Amorphous “Talking Points” from the Executive Director of the NCAPCS (North Carolina Association of Public Charter Schools)
My “Better Work Story” For TeachNC in One Picture
BEST NC recently sent out an email announcing the TeachNC initiative with links and information complete with some testimonial / advertisements. "TeachNC's media campaign, "Teachers Have Better Work Stories," highlights the ways in which teaching profession is challenging, fulfilling, and constantly evolving. These career qualities are particularly appealing to Millennials and Generation Z as they seek fulfilling … Continue reading My “Better Work Story” For TeachNC in One Picture
Can TeachNC Explain This To Prospective Teachers? How NC Devalues Veteran Teachers.
Can TeachNC and BESTNC explain this to prospective teachers? Below is the proposed salary schedule just released this summer for 2019-2020 school year that is still in limbo because of budget cuts. For the first 15 years of a career in NC, a teacher will receive a 1,000 raise for each year. It will go … Continue reading Can TeachNC Explain This To Prospective Teachers? How NC Devalues Veteran Teachers.
What TeachNC Will Not Tell Prospective Teachers: Comparing NC Teacher Salaries Now to 2008-2009
Below is the salary schedule for a teacher in North Carolina for the 2018-2019 school year. With the current stalemate in budget negotiations, it will be the salary schedule for the 2019-2020 school year. Any teacher new to the profession in the last four years would never be on the second schedule because newer teachers … Continue reading What TeachNC Will Not Tell Prospective Teachers: Comparing NC Teacher Salaries Now to 2008-2009
What TeachNC Really Does Is Show How Badly NC Has Treated Its Teachers
It launched today. A superfluous program that even the idea of would have never been needed if North Carolina had not done so much damage to the teaching profession in the last eight years. It's called Teach North Carolina. Remember back in May when the state superintendent printed up a lot of glossy fliers for … Continue reading What TeachNC Really Does Is Show How Badly NC Has Treated Its Teachers
This Teacher’s “Amazon Wishlist” For The NCGA
The fact that many teachers in this state (and others) have set up Amazon Wishlists is a strong indication of the NCGA's unwillingness to fully fund public schools. When Mark Johnson announced last school year that he wanted to use ClassWallet to “allow” teachers to “control” their supply purchases and give a private company the … Continue reading This Teacher’s “Amazon Wishlist” For The NCGA
Sorry Trump Administration, You Don’t Get To Rewrite Great Poetry
We need our poets. Whether composed with rhyme or meter, or to music, or if it is just on paper in free verse for someone to interpret through cadence, we need their words. We need words put together to frame an emotion, an event, a doubt, a success, a life event, or something that never … Continue reading Sorry Trump Administration, You Don’t Get To Rewrite Great Poetry
Stuart Egan: What Toni Morrison Taught Me
Thanks to Dr. Ravitch.
Stuart Egan is an NBCT High School Teacher in North Carolina.
In this post, he notes that school boards and vigilantes often challenge Toni Morrison’s novels. Her writings are frequently banned. But he contends that the critics should read them and perhaps they will learn from them as he did.
Toni Morrison passed this past week. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and what she did (and still does) for this white, upper middle class male teacher is something that I will always value as a life-long student: she made me understand that I don’t understand.
And she made me uncomfortable in my own skin to the point it still forces me to take a hard objective look at myself, my actions, and how I treat others. She also makes me look at the past through different lenses, especially my upbringing in a…
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Reclaiming Calendar Flexibility: Doing What’s Right For Students
Calendar flexibility is an issue that received much more attention in this last school year, and for good reasons. By 2017, North Carolina was one of only one of 14 states that had state laws that governed school calendars. The graphic below is from the Feb. 2017 Final Report to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee … Continue reading Reclaiming Calendar Flexibility: Doing What’s Right For Students
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