- Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” - July 4, 2021
- President Biden Pushes For Teachers To Get Their COVID Vaccine Dose By March - March 2, 2021
- We’re Just People Who Don’t Want To Be Killed! A Student Reflection About Insurrection - January 26, 2021
- Betsy DeVos Resigns: Most Teachers Say Good Riddance - January 8, 2021
- Class Divide in Emergency Learning: A Crisis Overseas - September 10, 2020
- Practicing Self-Care in the Midst of Chaos - August 31, 2020
- Do the Work: Equity Symposium for Teachers - August 23, 2020
- Universities Collaborate on the Biggest Experiment in Higher Ed: Reopening - August 3, 2020
- The Day of Teacher Self-Care is Happening August 1, 2020 - July 21, 2020
- Do the Work: A Conversation Around Anti-Racist Teaching in K-12 Schools - June 14, 2020
3. The front loading of "Common Core" material being introduced by companies like Pearson and Houghton Mifflin seem mainly concerned with making a profit than seeing if existing material can align. Within the last two years, there's been an influx of materials that's touted as "Common Core Aligned" but there's no proof of the alignment. Instead of financially strapped school districts shelling out millions on textbooks and/or ancillaries materials there should be a moratorium period of buying anything that is "Common Core Aligned". Districts should get feedback from their teachers about the resources they have that are already aligned to what the Common Core Standards are asking teachers and students to do. What makes things even more discerning is that the Student Achievement Partners (the people behind the standards) have yet to approve all of the new material being marketed to schools and districts.
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