In 2013, I shared a post written by a New York City elementary teacher, entitled “Data Shows Not Enough Teaching.” She is back today with an update, and although there has been a change in administration in New York City, testing at her school is excessive as ever. By Katie Lapham. While the public in New York …
By Susan DuFresne. This statement was delivered to the Renton School District Board of Education on Wednesday, January 28. (see details here.) As a kindergarten teacher I am an early childhood educator. As a professional I am responsible for their very first experience in our schools – and working with a group …
By Susan DuFresne. What will happen to us as teachers, parents, students, and democracy as we continue to struggle in our mandated race to the top of corporate education reform? Home for winter break from my work as a teacher, I find myself too exhausted the first several days to take care of anyone but myself. …
By Michelle Strater Gunderson. What does it mean to teach our youngest students? It means that we have the privilege of guiding dear persons in having good and fulfilled lives. It means learning to wait for someone else to tie their shoes before running out to recess. It means working for days on end to learn the …
By Sara Lahm. Is there a crack forming in the anti-child world we have been subjecting our children to for far too long? I ask this question on the heels of Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson’s announcement that, effective immediately, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders …
