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Keystone State Education Coalition: About
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Keystone State Education Coalition. Established in 2006, the Keystone State Education Coalition is a growing grass roots, non-partisan public education advocacy group of several hundred locally elected, volunteer school board members and administrators from school districts throughout Pennsylvania. Our mission is to evaluate, discuss and inform our boards, district constituents and legislators on legislative issues of common interest and to facilitate active engagement in public education advocacy. Our m...
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April | 2015 | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. Monthly Archives: April 2015. Return of the Building Sub. April 13, 2015. April 12, 2015. Last week, Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission began the the process of privatizing the 1,300 employees who serve as substitute teachers. And the response was the sort of groan you might hear before a pop quiz, or at a Bill Green selfie-video. Normally, privatizing on this scale. But the SRC’s solution, to no surpr...
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The Data Has a Problem, Part I | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. The Data Has a Problem, Part I. January 7, 2015. January 7, 2015. I want to apologize for being cranky this week. I greet a lot of students by name; I heckle and get heckled. It’s love. Any student who passed the test doesn’t have to come to school, and is, in fact, encouraged not to. You’re smart, your reward is escaping us. All the other students come in late. When we try to remind them that the most ...
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The “Me” in Mea Culpa | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. The “Me” in Mea Culpa. November 19, 2014. November 19, 2014. One of the most important and underrated area of teaching is modeling how to deal with mistakes. It’s neither on the fabled Danielson Framework for Effective Teaching. So I’m excited to announce that I made a mistake. And, just as I try to correct errors in my writing in front of the students, I’d like to make amends. No applications that came fro...
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Keystone State Education Coalition: Budget Action Links
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Keystone State Education Coalition. Established in 2006, the Keystone State Education Coalition is a growing grass roots, non-partisan public education advocacy group of several hundred locally elected, volunteer school board members and administrators from school districts throughout Pennsylvania. Our mission is to evaluate, discuss and inform our boards, district constituents and legislators on legislative issues of common interest and to facilitate active engagement in public education advocacy. Http:...
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A Good Day Teaching: February 2011
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A Good Day Teaching. An ordinary teacher's (urban public school) thoughts on the job. What we do, why we do it. The good, the bad, the things that make us hopeful, the things that break our hearts. Why we keep going. A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams. On the way up Diamondhead. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed. 4 Corinthians, 9-10.
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Bringing Feedback Back | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. May 5, 2015. May 4, 2015. Apologies: I’ve had 2 surgeries, one minor and one not-minor, over the past 10 weeks. Suffice to say, my blogging has suffered. This post was intended for February. This is the status quo in many schools. Principals work to keep things working. They don’t have the combination of time, resources, will power, and pedagogy to improve instruction. I spent a week figuring out the best w...
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. Kindly keep your filthy #edtech talons off of Pokemon. July 19, 2016. July 19, 2016. 1) I have been playing Pokemon Go. 2) I thoroughly enjoy it, and am convinced it holds important lessons. 3) The thought-pieces on Can you Use Pokemon Go in the classroom are driving me towards felony. Fast. Educators see gold in Pokémon Go https:/ t.co/L2Jpt6urHu. Mdash; Jordan Shapiro (@jordosh) July 16, 2016. Enthusiasts...
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March | 2015 | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. Monthly Archives: March 2015. Stop with the Book Dungeon. March 19, 2015. March 19, 2015. You’ve heard of the Philly Shrug. Whelp, here’s it is, loud and proud. In this article from Philly.com. We are regaled by a familiar tale of incompetence and waste: the School District of Philadelphia must pay people to get rid of books they bought so they don’t rot in the basement of a school they closed. Go to any sc...
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October | 2014 | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. Monthly Archives: October 2014. In which I dress as a Wizard and learn about Leadership. October 22, 2014. October 22, 2014. I arrived at school early, set up a PowerPoint, printed some terrible poems, and dressed up as a Wizard. Tuesday! There are much better posts about Urban teachers giving it all, on how working in an environment of austerity means smiling as your spine is cracking. This is 100% sta...
