Go to the episode on spotify , click here. Dictating How to Discipline As I was going through recent news stories, I came across this story about LAUSD Teachers who are not happy about changes to Discipline. This resonated with me because so many of...
As I was going through recent news stories, I came across this story about LAUSD Teachers who are not happy about changes to Discipline. This resonated with me because so many of my teacher friends are also not pleased. All of us in education are...
watch it on Spotify , click here Google “Teacher burnout,” and you’ll get more articles, blog posts, videos, and social media comments than is humanly possible to look at in a lifetime. (Ok, that may be a bit of a hyperbole, but if you do happen to...
The California lawsuit over transgender students’ rights policy in the Chino Valley Unified School District has sparked a heated debate about parents’ rights and the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming students. The lawsuit, filed...
Every week, I try to pick stories from the educational world that I feel could have broader implications across our profession (or seem crazy or questionable). This week’s news stories from the education world share how: New Hampshire teachers...
Teachers deserve fair compensation for their invaluable work. This is not the first attempt to shine a light on the often overlooked and underappreciated nature of the teacher workload that accompanies this profession. It is the expectation that...
Jen, Sharyn, and I start the show by discussing the latest education news, which, in this case, is what the proposed 10% budget cut might mean for schools (for me, it might mean retirement!) These could be the single biggest cuts to education in the...
If you know the song by The Knack that rhymes with “corona”, you’ll get the pun, and now you probably have the song stuck in your head substituting “Corona” for “Sharona.” Sorry about that. This virus, too, is hard to get out of our...
Go search on Google “number of new teachers who quit,” and you’ll find pages and pages (115,000,000 results in the search I did) of statistics that all read about the same: “Close to half of teachers with five or fewer years of teaching have...
Why do we send our children to school? To learn stuff? What stuff? Who decides which “stuff” is important and which can be set aside? How do we know they learned this stuff? In the long past, education meant learning which plants wouldn’t kill...