This post is part of a series related to the VIVA/NEA 360° Report. See an overview here. By Joy Peters. The process was laid out before us clearly: contribute a lot, be selected, write, and report. We did that. We had made the deadline. We were successful. We were proud of what we had produced. Everyone …
(This post is part of a series related to the VIVA/NEA 360° Report. See an overview here. You can download a summary of the changes to the report drafts here: What Was Left Behind, prepared by the same author.) by Petra Schmid-Riggins It’s late, silence echoes through the house, time to go to sleep. So why is …
(This post is part of a series related to the VIVA/NEA 360° Report. See an overview here.) By Amanda Koonlaba. In October 2014, while on maternity leave, I received an email from Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, about participating in an Idea Exchange with VIVA Teachers. …
(This post is part of a series related to the VIVA/NEA 360° Report. See an overview here.) By Enid Hutchinson. I became a teacher because growing up I loved my teachers, and, I loved working with children. When I was growing up, teaching was a profession that was respected and honored by parents, students and …
(This post is part of a series related to the VIVA/NEA 360° Report. See an overview here.) By Nancy Kunsman. An email from National Education Association (NEA) president Lily Eskelson-Garcia in October invited NEA members to share our voices concerning best practices in education accountability. I tend to be …
(This post is part of a series related to the VIVA/NEA 360° Report. See an overview here.) By Rachel Rich. I felt like I had won the Teachers’ Schoolhouse Sweepstakes as I opened an invitation to an NEA survey on “360 Degree Accountability”. How often do teachers get asked for an opinion?! I was equally …
By Anthony Cody. In December I published a post submitted by a group of teachers that had been working on a special project called the VIVA/NEA 360° writing collaborative. These teachers had been working on a report that was to offer a “new vision for accountability” for K12 education. Many of them …
