“Collaborate” :intransitive verb. Noun form is “collaboration” – 1:to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor  Simply put, collaboration as described in that first definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary website is the best resource/tool that a school can have and that leaders can encourage, especially in this recent epidemic. What makes … Continue reading What This Current Crisis Shows Is That Our Schools Are About Collaboration Among Teachers, Not Competition

11 months in a pandemic. A lot going on. Close school buildings. Go straight to remote teaching. Primary elections. Standardized testing doubts. Government ignorance of the Leandro report. Reopening Task Force with no teachers. Dan Forest's platform. Lysol. Sunshine. Betsy DeVos. Meals for students. Underemployment benefits. Connectivity divide. Remote instruction plans. Vouchers for all bill. … Continue reading 11 Months. Comparing Schools & The NC General Assembly.

A look at the states that have prioritized vaccinating teachers: And how many vaccinations have been given in NC?

I work in a school system that has over 80 schools, 50,000+ students, and around 6200 teachers. There are around 1000 substitute teachers on the official sub list in the county. That does not mean that there are 1000 people ready to go to any school on any day for any amount of time. Those … Continue reading So, How Many Substitute Teachers Does Your School System Really Have?

Remember when Sen. Chad Barefoot said this in February of 2017 concerning House Bill 13? “For years, the General Assembly has been sending tens of millions of dollars to districts for new classroom teachers for the purpose of lowering classroom sizes,” he said. “The question we keep asking over and over again is, ‘What did … Continue reading Social Distancing Is Our New #ClassSizeChaos

... vaccinations. Nurses and mental support staff in every school. And the benefit of not letting the public think that you can "buy off" teachers. I will never begrudge a school employee who would choose to take the bonus. Considering what this state has not done to raise salaries of many school personnel, this cojuld … Continue reading Keep Your Damn Bonus. Give Us –

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt's rapid and sustained defense of her desire to remove certain words from the NC Social Studies curriculum standards was again on display in a new post on EdNC.org just a day after another State Board of Education meeting that highlighted revising those standards. In particular Truitt wants to do the following: … Continue reading About The State Superintendent’s Perspective On Social Studies Standards

Don't take a poll of community members on an open forum about whether this state should open school buildings and leave it there. It's not about what we want to do. It's not about what we think we can do in ideal situations with plans that work perfectly in our minds. It's not even about … Continue reading Ask Public School Principals – Every One Of Them

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is going a long way in giving the facade that he is defending our public schools from teaching a "version" of history that "indoctrinates" students with radical beliefs. He's even started a petition to lobby the very state school board he serves on. If you have not met our new NC … Continue reading Actually Our Lt. Gov. Is Preaching Indoctrination In Schools

No question. Gov. Cooper did not endear himself to many teachers today when he participated in a press conference aside both State Super Catherine Truitt and State Board Chair Eric Davis in appealing to all public school systems to offer in-person teaching. Currently, 90 of the 115 physical LEA's offer some sort of Plan B … Continue reading It’s What Cooper Didn’t Say