(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 …
By Monty Neill and Lisa Guisbond. The draft rewrite of No Child Left Behind that the Senate education committee will debate on April 14 – “Every Child Achieves” (link here) – fails to reduce the law’s deeply destructive annual testing mandate. It keeps the requirement to test every child in every year …
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” ~Nelson Mandela By Deb Escobar, Lorri Gumanow, Lisa Kollmer, and Lily Alayne Owen. Refuse the Test Robocall Committee: Katherine Brezler, Deb Escobar, Lorri Gumanow, Lisa Kollmer, and Lily Alayne Owen, along with several other education activists, parents, and …
By Anthony Cody. This Tuesday voters in Chicago will choose between incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Chuy Garcia. Garcia shared his views on education here a few weeks ago, and has earned the support of most teachers and the Chicago Teachers Union. The Network for Public Education also has endorsed him. …
By Leah Putnam. If you participated in the 2012 Chicago Teachers Union Strike, you might recognize my sign (I’m the “union thug” holding it). After 10 years of teaching 5th grade for Chicago Public Schools, I recently moved to Indiana and began teaching 2nd grade. Moving from the third largest public school …
