The Golden State of Hate. The Golden State of Hate.

A blog about teaching the magnificent students of South Central L. Opinions are my own and do not represent LAUSD. Sunday, February 1, 2015. The Sensei Goes to Sacramento. Higher Education and Secondary Alignment.

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. The take-aways from this post are first, policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice increase variation in lessons, and, second, teachers are policymakers. Policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice seldom produce homogeneous lessons. Extensive variation after a policy demanding standardization? Cohen and Ball explain.

With the election of 2016 in the rear-view, what could we expect but chaos and trauma, injustice and ignorance? There was plenty of all of that, but there were also doses of hope and many galvanized souls against a common enemy. I blogged about some of that despair and some of that hope. Thanks to all who read along. Here is 2017 in review.

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Where public education needs to happen. musings from a highly-qualified, highly-effective, credentialed, enormously pissed off teacher. Saturday, February 7, 2015. My response to john merrow. In response to What a Difference a Dash Makes! Dear Mr.

Failing Schools, or Failing Paradigm? Public Education and Health. Childhood Trauma versus Public Education . I write regarding injured, marginalized children in our schools, to ask that you include them explicitly in a broad, Healthy State paradigm in your new administration.

Chicago teacher, activist, writer, digital media strategist. Why the Left Must Embrace Affluenza. Privilege is one of thos.