#WeirderEveryHour: From Tuesday night with some interesting commentary on Wednesday night: Jared Bybee ”Hey Bertis, I get that for your narrative to work you need some bad - or at least indifferent - actors. And your choice to paint me as one of those actors with a facebook post quibbling with my word choice, rather … Continue reading Fixed It For You
Category: Education
4 Simple Things
[This might be my only post on education for a while] #LSTN2TCHRS Education friends, teacher friends, CCSD friends, PEM-GA friends: if it's "all about the kids" (as of course it is in education), I just hope the various authorities in charge heed their teachers’ advice, like this one from rural Arkansas: https://berto.fyi/2I9MwjX Good teachers seem … Continue reading 4 Simple Things
Candid Feedback
Cedar/Central friends, CCSD friends, Athens and Georgia public education friends: This sounds like a promising approach in helping diverse and effective schools thrive-- a story from, of all places, Iowa: berto.fyi/IowaStudentLedPD " 'Unless we get feedback from diverse perspectives, we can only operate from what we know—and what we know is limited because it's just … Continue reading Candid Feedback
An Ode to the “Loser” Teachers
Education friends, CCSD friends, BATs, PEM-Ga and NPE allies: this is the best essay on teachers and teaching in a while-- by a couple of teacher friends https://berto.fyi/2U8ySzS Wisdom from Todd and Adam: "There can be no “better South” without public education. . . . Teachers are not losers. Teachers are warriors."
Fusion Politics
Thinking through all the action back home in the CCSD, I continue to reflect on the apt and stirring message of Rev William Barber the various times I have seen him speak, and his theory of “fusion politics,” most recently at the NPE conference three years ago in Raleigh: http://bit.ly/2wUjZde "Fusion Politics" according to Rev … Continue reading Fusion Politics
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