Friday, July 29, 2011
I have a Dream that one day....
Reading through my Twitter account I ran across an article where Arne Duncan states that teacher salaries should begin at $60,000 and top off at $100,000. Check out the article HERE.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Worth "Follow"ing!!
Vicki Davis is a wonderful, inspiring teacher that has a blog that is ALWAYS worth reading through. Please "Follow" her and then take a look at the article she wrote for The Washington Post Definitely read the last paragraph on the first page of the newspaper article. She hit the nail on the head with that one.
We have to start speaking up for our profession!! Blogs you follow and articles you click on and read SPEAKS to the world. People are following these trends and we need to make comments in comment boxes and let the world know that we are NOBLE professional persons who KNOW what and how to teach. STOP telling us what we have to do and when we have to do it. Let us follow our hearts and minds. A teacher who wants to do the best for his/her students will do WHATEVER it takes to make that happen. Powerblock was initially started for a group of students who had a need to "hit it hard at the end". Because it looked good and sounded good on paper, EVERYONE IS REQUIRED TO DO IT ALL YEAR LONG WITHOUT RESPECT FOR THE TEACHERS INPUT!! This is where we, as professionals, need to speak up and say: "Please let us have some FREEDOM TO TEACH. We will always put our students first and do the right thing for our students, but stop running our classrooms when you aren't even in them or working with the kids daily. Step back and TRUST US!!"
So to my co-workers I say: "Read blogs, click on important educational articles, LIKE great groups/blogs/articles and show them on Facebook, this is all a way to speak out and be heard!!"
We have to start speaking up for our profession!! Blogs you follow and articles you click on and read SPEAKS to the world. People are following these trends and we need to make comments in comment boxes and let the world know that we are NOBLE professional persons who KNOW what and how to teach. STOP telling us what we have to do and when we have to do it. Let us follow our hearts and minds. A teacher who wants to do the best for his/her students will do WHATEVER it takes to make that happen. Powerblock was initially started for a group of students who had a need to "hit it hard at the end". Because it looked good and sounded good on paper, EVERYONE IS REQUIRED TO DO IT ALL YEAR LONG WITHOUT RESPECT FOR THE TEACHERS INPUT!! This is where we, as professionals, need to speak up and say: "Please let us have some FREEDOM TO TEACH. We will always put our students first and do the right thing for our students, but stop running our classrooms when you aren't even in them or working with the kids daily. Step back and TRUST US!!"
So to my co-workers I say: "Read blogs, click on important educational articles, LIKE great groups/blogs/articles and show them on Facebook, this is all a way to speak out and be heard!!"
Friday, July 8, 2011
This is why....
DCBE technology department is talking about going to Google Docs for most all documents and storage. Microsoft is charging us yearly for the right to use (something like $35,000) so we may be using Google Docs daily.....call me and I'll help you set up and be ahead of the rest!!
This gentlemen, Richard Bryne, has a GREAT BLOG for teachers to follow. I always find great things from him. Here he is explaining the NEW features Google is putting out.
This gentlemen, Richard Bryne, has a GREAT BLOG for teachers to follow. I always find great things from him. Here he is explaining the NEW features Google is putting out.
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