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An Urban Teacher's Education: TFA Alumnus Describes Barriers to Student Achievement
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Saturday, February 5, 2011. TFA Alumnus Describes Barriers to Student Achievement. How My School and District Failed its Students. The following is by Frank Beard, a graduate of Drake University and a former Teach For America corps member (Kansas City ’08). He taught middle school science, social studies, and communication arts in the Kansas City, Missouri School District. Or so I thought. Once that realization spread, the school effectively went from quality to chaos overni...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: What and Why We SHOULD Teach
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. What and Why We SHOULD Teach. It's time to give it up. I'm abandoning it whole-heartedly. Here and now. I'm leaving it behind forever. What am I talking about? Well, that chapter in my life is over. I'm declaring it dead here and now. Goodbye teacher technician. There is no right place in the world for you. Why am I doing this? Why kill the part of myself that so many teachers point to when asked what makes them good at what they do? Nearly thirty-tw...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Could You Make My Job More Difficult?
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Could You Make My Job More Difficult? In an effort to focus on the positive, I explained. Last week why I love working at my school. As much as it's a great opportunity for me, it's also an INCREDIBLE hassle. I think if people were more aware of the absurdities teachers deal with on an everyday basis, they might be less inclined to label schools 'failing,' or blame teachers for society's shortcomings. In December, I wrote about. It's a liability to...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Engaging Those Who Disagree Through Love and Vocation
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Monday, March 9, 2015. Engaging Those Who Disagree Through Love and Vocation. The board room was packed, and the tension was palpable. Scores of teachers and community members had turned out to tell the board not to sign a contract with Teach for America. When it was my turn to speak, I was angry. I was angry and frustrated. I tried to look into the eyes of the people behind the suits who I was speaking to, but it was difficult. I think that’s exactly what I was doing ...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: High-Stakes End of Course Exams Harm Students in Washington State
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. High-Stakes End of Course Exams Harm Students in Washington State. A study in 2013. By Kevin Lang and Olesya Baker at Boston University found that increases in high-stakes exit exams are linked to higher incarceration rates. John Papay, Richard Murnane, and John Willet at Harvard found that. When students from ACE met with my legislator, Senator Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island), she rightly asked if there wasn’t a collection of evidence (COE...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: CES Fall Forum: Day One
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An Urban Teacher's Education. Friday, November 9, 2012. CES Fall Forum: Day One. Today I worked in an all-day session on creating student-led classrooms at the CES Fall Forum. In Providence, Rhode Island. The presenters asked us to think about traditional models of schooling and scrutinize their rationales. As you would expect, they went on to argue that learning should be in service of exploring student wonderings and in places students learn best. Schools and teachers that do truly great, revolutionary...
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Michael S MacNaughton, LLC - Software Engineer, Web Developer and Business Analyst
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An overview of current interests and projects. Color Schemes for the Sight Impaired. Javascript project: Change parameters of the base color in the input fields or scale 0-360 inside the color wheel. Custom CSS and Proprietary Contact Form for BruceParrott.com a local political web site. Resize the browser. To see the site respond to media queries. Redesign of Pricing Tables. I took the original hotfix from marketing a step further. In this example using jQuery easing and scaling. Video of Dart IDE.
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Dallas Friends of Public Education
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Rarr; Documents → Selected Readings. 2015 DISD Bond Information. DMN Talk DISD Blog. This Week in Education. Tweets by @DFPE ORG. These selections do not necessarily reflect the beliefs, opinions, mission or action plan of the DFPE. They are provided here to foster thoughtful conversation among those of us interested in the education of children. Standards for Authentic Achevement and Pedagogy. By Gary G. Wehlage, Fred M. Newmann, Walter G. Secada (1995), Posted August 21, 2012. IT'S NOT HARD TO IMAGINE ...
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Dallas Friends of Public Education
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Rarr; About DFPE → By-Laws. 2015 DISD Bond Information. DMN Talk DISD Blog. This Week in Education. Tweets by @DFPE ORG. I NAME AND PURPOSE. Section 1 - The organization shall be registered by the Texas Ethics Commission as a General Purpose Political Action Committee, (GPAC) with the name Dallas Friends of Public Education. II MEMBERSHIP AND DUES. Section 1 - Membership shall be open only to individuals who are in agreement with the mission, philosophy, by-laws and policies of DFPE. Section 6 - Any memb...
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