Skip to main contentRemainders: Wishes, advice, plans, and a poem to start the year
By | September 6, 2011, 11:14pm UTC - “Twas the eve of the school year, and all through the town, no teacher was sleeping …” (Mr. Foteah)
- A teacher’s advice about how to address race in the classroom starts with being prepared. (Jose Vilson)
- A Bronx teacher advises colleagues to hope for the best but prepare for the worst this year. (JD2718)
- A city teacher says she’s glad she doesn’t have a letter from her former self to refer back to. (Miss Brave)
- A teacher explains why she is alone in not establishing a list of rules on the first day of school. (Mrs. Ripp)
- A teacher’s plan for a new start includes setting class goals and going paperless. (No Sleep ‘Til Summer)
- A database of city high schools’ college readiness rankings, complete with caveats. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- Children who were in kindergarten at PS 150 on 9/11 reflect on their experience 10 years later. (NY Mag)
- On the composition of the Panel for Educational Policy, the city’s “fake school board.” (Brooklyn Rail)
- Jay Mathews says “good riddance” to new national standards just as they start to arrive. (Class Struggle)
- Reviews of the two competing sets of Common Core “content frameworks.” (Flypaper 1, 2)
- Educators say they’re hungry for resources to help them teach to the new standards. (Curriculum Matters)
- A Philly principal is shocked by the idea that educators can collaborate in just 2 days. (Practical Theory)