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New Year, Same Song (Charter School Diaries)
Year 2 Week 1 (9/2 – 9/6) courtesy edudemic The beginning of any school year marks the chance to start over… students who wish to earn good grades and actually learn something; teachers who desire to...
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Administrative Frankensteins (Charter School Diaries)
Year 2 Week 1 (9/9 – 9/13) courtesy jjkvc.org So I took the plunge this year and decided to jump into school administration. I still teach and I am a department head, but my new role is as the...
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Parents, Teachers, and Conflicts of Interest (Charter School Diaries #28)
Year 2 Week 3 9/16 – 9/20 courtesy nea.org One of the things that I loathe about my position is dealing with unhappy parents. One of my job duties concerns student discipline. I give out and schedules...
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Educators Must Avoid Isolation (Charter School Diaries)
Year 2 Week 4 9/23 – 9/27 courtesy e-coach.com Educators in urban schools are constantly trying to figure out how to get students to perform better academically. Some establish strategies that help...
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Step Up and Teach – Part 2: ELA Writing Standards
Read Part 1 of this series about Reading Standards here. picture courtesy corecommonstandards.com Princess, my first grader, writes all of the time. One day in kindergarten, after getting into...
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Got Discipline? (Charter School Diaries)
Year 2 Week 3- 1/21 – 1/25 One of my roles as an assistant principal is school disciplinarian. I loathe this role. My charter school uses a lottery system to enroll students. There are no requirements...
View ArticleWhen Charter Companies Bail Out on Students
Charter companies have found a friendly home in Philadelphia. They are often granted charters over parental and neighborhood protests. Charter companies are more likely to be approved over...
View Article[Podcast S2E12] How to Engage With Students Who Are Behaviorally Challenged
Have you ever received a child in your class who as soon as you see them you know they will be a behavior challenge? Call it teacher intuition, but you can feel it- and most times you’re right. You...
View ArticleMeet Betsy DeVos, Our New Secretary of Education
Today it was announced that President-Elect Donald Trump has chosen Betsy DeVos, a top Republican Donor, and School Choice Advocate to head the Department of Education. As teachers, we’ve already had a...
View ArticleThe Importance of the 2018 Mid-Term Elections: A Teacher’s Perspective
American democracy is at a crossroads. In November of this year, the American electorate will go to the polls to decide which party should control the Congress of the United States and set policy on...
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