Archive for March, 2008

Did You Get The Memo?

Posted by avoiceinthewilderness
I was teaching summer school classes in a voluntary program for high school children. My class was playing Jeopardy to review some of the concepts we had been learning. The game was heating up; the score was really close. In retrospect, I should have calmed the kids down a bit, but I [...]

Why We Look To Teachers To Solve Our Problems

Posted by avoiceinthewilderness
They slice. They dice.
They have the ability to cause children who never come to school to pass standardized exams.
They can overcome broken families, drug addiction, institutional racism, media saturation and all other effects of a society in complete regression.
Look up in the sky, it’s a bird! It’s a plane. No, it’s a teacher!
Naturally, [...]

“You Have No Business Becoming A School Administrator”

Posted by avoiceinthewilderness
Quote, end quote.
The above statement was made to me by a superintendent of a large school district on Long Island in front of about twenty other graduate students . The weird thing is, I didn’t get upset.
He was my teacher and the class was a part of an administrative program. The comment was [...]

“Behold, I Send You Forth as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves”

There is a Great Divide between old and new teachers, but according to the welcoming committee at the NYCTF New Teacher Ceremony, the reason is because “older teachers don’t like you. And they shouldn’t. They are afraid of you because you have the power to do what they can’t. You can change the schools. You [...]