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Teachers’LettersToBillGates | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates. Educators from the US and beyond: please share your teaching stories with Mr. Bill Gates. How have the policies of the Gates Foundation influenced your classroom, your students, your teaching, your schools, and your communities? BREAKING: Washington State Teachers Union Sues to Block Charter School Funding. April 8, 2016. Bill Gates’ Market-Driven Experiments Are Not Ready for Prime-Time Public Ed. August 14, 2014. Dear Mr. Gates, Your Foundation contributions always ...
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4th Grade Bellevue, WA Teacher Objects to Administering Smarter Balanced Test | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. 4th Grade Bellevue, WA Teacher Objects to Administering Smarter Balanced Test. March 5, 2015. Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Linda Myrick, a 4th grade teacher in Bellevue, WA – and a member of the Washington Badass Teachers Association – objected to the administration of Smarter Balanced Assessments before the Bellevue School Board. You may see her speech here. Good afternoon, members of the board, Dr. Mills. I am the Lorax. I speak for the kids. But, I have watched ...
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The #Renton4 Request a Response and Ask Renton School Board to Inform Parents of #OptOut Rights | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. The #Renton4 Request a Response and Ask Renton School Board to Inform Parents of #OptOut Rights. February 12, 2015. February 12, 2015. It is been two weeks since we delivered our Letters of Professional Conscience. To the Renton School Board. We have not received a response from them to date, thus we were prompted to speak to them again this evening. Julianna Krueger-Dauble went to the podium, while Becca Ritchie, Susan DuFresne and two supportive teachers st...
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Our Objections | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. We begin with a definition of the word “conscience” and we leave you with one example of our Teachers’ Letters of Professional Conscience. Feel free to use these words, revise, or edit as you wish. We have made them generic so that you can add your test names and teacher names to these objections to personalize them. Add your personal reasons for the following objections here, followed by:). For these reasons, I cannot remain silent. I do NOT need this standa...
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Ken Foster’s Open Letter to Ms. Trina Newton, Superintendent | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. Ken Foster’s Open Letter to Ms. Trina Newton, Superintendent. February 8, 2015. February 10, 2015. Attn: Ms. Trina S. Newton, Superintendent of Schools. Administration Center, Geneva City School District. 400 West North St. Geneva, NY 14456. Open Letter to Ms. Trina Newton. Dear Ms. Newton:. The Governor and State Legislature have acknowledged that the roll-out of new assessments is flawed and, therefore, have delayed consequences for students for several yea...
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A Growing Movement of Teachers of Conscience: More in Seattle Refuse to Administer the #SBA/#SBAC Tests – | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. A Growing Movement of Teachers of Conscience: More in Seattle Refuse to Administer the #SBA/#SBAC Tests –. March 27, 2015. March 27, 2015. There are many ways teachers are fighting back against the Common Core high stakes tests. We delivered our Letters of Professional Conscience. To our school board, and Seattle teachers are finding new ways to empower teachers, parents, and students by refusing to administer the test. 1 Not required for graduation. 3 Since ...
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Bill Gates’ Market-Driven Experiments Are Not Ready for Prime-Time Public Ed | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates. Educators from the US and beyond: please share your teaching stories with Mr. Bill Gates. How have the policies of the Gates Foundation influenced your classroom, your students, your teaching, your schools, and your communities? Bill Gates’ Summer Reading List Showed Up in Bill’s Twitter Feed (with Minor Revisions). BREAKING: Washington State Teachers Union Sues to Block Charter School Funding →. August 14, 2014. Dear Mr. Gates,. The test and punish, high stakes testing m...
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About | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. Our conscience leaves us no other choice…. As Teachers of Professional Conscience we object to the use of toxic high stakes testing. We object to the commodification of children as a source of income for testing corporations. We object to the sorting, ranking, labeling, and culling of children based on high stakes test scores. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Kathleen Jeskey Tells Canby, OR School Board: “I am a conscientious objector to this test.” | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. Kathleen Jeskey Tells Canby, OR School Board: “I am a conscientious objector to this test.”. February 21, 2015. February 21, 2015. 8220;I am a conscientious objector to this test.”. And to hold a work session about the test. Kathleen has put her job on the line for children, but feels parents have a role to play as well. 8220;At least the parents know how we feel. It is up to them, I think…(the district) can’t fire the parents.”. CEA President, Christopher Ba...
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A Teacher Tries Opting Out | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
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Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience. A Teacher Tries Opting Out. March 29, 2015. This is m y first blog post. And kind of the reason I decided to create my own blog: to keep people updated on what is going on with my request, as a teacher, to be allowed to opt out of administering the flawed Smarter Balanced Assessment. On March 9th, I had not yet heard a response to my request and sent this email to the school board, our superintendent, and my principal. I have not yet received an answer as to ...