Teachers' letters to obama roundtable: stop griping, start organizing

[Hannah Bell]

“Your Heart, Your Voice”

.Doug Christensen is the former commissioner of the Nebraska Department of Education (1994 – 2008). Here he gives a stellar presentation on the effects of high-stakes testing in education, and proposes a brilliant conceptual framework for approaching school reform. Many thanks to Tim Furman for getting this on Vimeo, and Anthony Cody & Nancy Flanagan for hosting the Teachers’ Letters to Obama Roundtable where this was originally presented. (Our next Roundtable, Stop Griping, Start Organizing, will be held on Tuesday, September 28. Register here, then mark your calendars!)

http://failingschools.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/your-heart-your-voice/

[Jefferson23]

1. K&R n/t

[NYC Teacher]

2. Stop griping, start organizing

I am working with NYC public school teachers to start our own campaign against the daily public-school-teacher-bashing that has taken place on several national networks and in newspapers across the country. To start, we are beginning a letter-writing campaign to different media outlets, and plan to attend Diane Ravitch's panel discussion in NY in October. If you are interested in standing up and fighting to have public school teacher's voices heard, contact me. The union has done nothing to defend us, and as business leaders propose "educational reforms," as if THEY are experts, we will need to fight to have our ideas/concerns/experiences considered.

[Hannah Bell]

3. I'm not a teacher, but I'll bump that for visibility. Please get your post count up quick so you

have privileges.