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School Reform and the Demise of the Bureaucrat
Summary: The transformation of Foster High School into a functioning academy for a largely immigrant multicultural population, with improved graduation rates, strong math scores, and a peaceful campus is a study in how communication and respect can melt away the … Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Bureaucracy
Tagged administrator leadership, at risk students, communication in schools, counselor role, empowering teachers, immigrant students, low-income students, relationships in schools, school bureaucracy, school funding, school reform, teacher overwork
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Schools and Politics: Seattle Teachers Strike and Aim to Be Players
Summary: The Seattle Teachers’ strike has ended with advances in salary and working conditions, but also in agreements that address quality of schooling for kids, such as disproportionate discipline for kids of color and, in general, suspension as a tool … Continue reading
Posted in Schools and Politics
Tagged at risk students, Dale Russakoff, disproportionate discipline, education and politics, empowering teachers, low-income students, parent support, school funding, school reform, Seattle Teachers strike, teacher morale, teacher pay, teachers' unions, Testing
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School Reform: Listen Deeply to What Teachers Know
Summary: Recent research identifies truths about kids and pedagogy that have long been embedded in the practice of American educators. Time is long past to act more consistently on teacher insights. The American teacher is targeted from some sectors as … Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Reform, Schools and Politics
Tagged Adverse Childhood Experiences, at risk students, education and politics, educational research, empowering teachers, phonetic reading, school reform, teacher knowledge, teacher professionalism, teaching, trauma in students
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School Bureaucracy: Behind the Walkout at Garfield High
Summary: The common practice in school districts that adjusts student-teacher ratios a month into school retards the learning process, distracts teachers and counselors from more important work, and in the end simply harms students, some more than others. The practice … Continue reading
School Bureaucracy: Lessons from the VA and GM
Summary: The current debacles at the Veterans’ Administration and General Motors, and the parallel inability of upper management to solicit data from grass roots workers, may well mirror the deaf ear of too many senior school administrators to teacher point … Continue reading
School Reform: Once Again A Tale of Teacher Power
Summary: Amid the relative merits of “direct instruction” and “inquiry” approaches to curriculum, a narrative emerges that suggests teacher empowerment may be the more important variable. In the ongoing assault on school dysfunction, debate rages between those who advocate “direct … Continue reading
School Reform: Yup, Some Regular Every Day Schools Are Doing It
Summary: One low income school stages a dramatic turnaround. How it was done maps out a route that other reformed schools have followed, yet poses dilemmas for the choice makers. The Seattle area’s White Center Heights Elementary prior to the … Continue reading
School Reform: Yes, There Is Some Good News!
Summary: School reform is a long and often discouraging slog. This is a pause to celebrate the many hopeful events and trends that together refresh for the next round. It is time to celebrate positives in the many headed effort … Continue reading
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