Grassroots Educational Reform: The Teachers’ Conference
Teaching is a lonely profession. At some point in their career, everyone bemoans the fact that teaching, planning, grading, attending meetings, and tending to bureaucratic necessities leaves little...
View ArticleLet Them Have A’s: The Trouble With Grade Inflation
Traditionally, grades have been interpreted as C means average, B means above average, A means excelling, D means below average, and F means failing. Yet no student of mine in fourteen years of...
View ArticleTo Oregon’s School Districts: What’s the Plan for Dealing With Budget Cuts?
Even though I’m not teaching this year, I often miss having students. I miss the personal connections with kids and their parents; I miss having my own classroom, a safe space for learning and...
View ArticleSenator: A Promise for a Promise
Originally published in the Oregonian, as “How about some straight talk about fiscal crisis?” This past election I received 146 political mailings. They contained hundreds of promises, including vows...
View Article“A terrible thing to waste…”
My class of teacher candidates and I are reading Teaching 2030, a book that uses wonderful ideas from practicing teachers to discuss their changing roles. As the title suggests, the authors (Barnett...
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The Upside of Teaching at a Low SES School
Jennifer Singleton is an elementary school music teacher with seven years of teaching experience in Portland metro area schools. She was born, raised, and educated in Oregon, and loves nothing more...
View ArticleLet’s First Ask: Where Is The Funding?
There were tears in the hall again today. No, I don’t mean a child was crying. It was a teacher. Many teachers have been laid off from their positions for next year. It is a hard time in the year...
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What Is a “Bad Teacher”?
After completing an MAT at Pacific University in 2008, Melissa Cantwell is now certified to teach Middle and High School English. She has been a substitute teacher for two years in Oregon City,...
View ArticleDistinguished Educators Council: Looking for Applicants
We are excited to announce the formation of the Distinguished Educators Council! From our press release: Chalkboard is seeking 12-15 award-winning Oregon educators to serve on the Distinguished...
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Why teacher leadership is often seen, but not heard
Teacher leadership is a title which comes with many perceptions. Just depends who you talk to. Some parents view teacher leaders as “practitioners” who can manage a classroom and consistently guide...
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