• Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact

Nancy Bailey's Education Website

Revive, Rally and Recover Public Schools

  • Activism
    • Anti-Charter Schools
    • Anti-Common Core State Standards
    • Anti-Corporatization of Schools
    • Anti-High-Stakes Testing
    • State Action Groups
    • School Buildings
  • School Curriculum
    • General Education
    • Educators
    • Parents
    • Reading
    • Writing
    • Math
    • Science
    • Social Studies
    • The Arts
    • Technology
    • Behavior
    • Diversity
    • English Language Learners
    • Special Education
      • Autism
      • Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
      • Learning Disabilities
      • Developmental Disabilities
      • Gifted
      • Other
    • Early Childhood Education
    • Elementary School
    • Middle School
    • High School
    • Student Careers
  • Other Countries
    • England
    • Finland
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Canada

101 (And MORE) Wishes For Students in 2018—In 5 Words or Less

January 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 28 Comments

Post Views: 300
  1. Provide children plenty of recess.
  2. Pay attention to child development.
  3. Cherish play for children.
  4. Encourage teens to socialize.
  5. Lower class sizes.
  6. Bring back the arts.
  7. Provide all students art instruction.
  8. Give students credentialed art teachers.
  9. Let children dance.
  10. Sing-along with students.
  11. Teach students to play instruments.
  12. Display student art in schools.
  13. Bring back school plays.
  14. Showcase student writing.
  15. End high-stakes testing.
  16. Teach better civics.
  17. Bring back Home Economics.
  18. Help teens balance a checkbook.
  19. Teach students self-care.
  20. Provide school nurses.
  21. Help students learn money management.
  22. Provide 12th grade career information.
  23. Develop good career-technical education.
  24. Give students with disabilities services.
  25. Make IEPs relevant and personal.
  26. Address dyslexia.
  27. Show students how to adapt.
  28. Help students find alternatives.
  29. Find student strengths.
  30. Provide teachers special education preparation.
  31. Value parents in educational decisions.
  32. Quit pushing school choice.
  33. Stop throwing money at charters.
  34. End charter school scandals.
  35. Require refunds from corrupt charters.
  36. Create a strong school system.
  37. Technology is better with teachers.
  38. Decrease screen time.
  39. Reassess the use of Chromebooks.
  40. Protect student privacy.
  41. End corrupt online school programs.
  42. Hire educationally prepared school leaders.
  43. Support professionally trained teacher educators.
  44. Create good teacher education programs.
  45. Stop misusing university adjunct instructors.
  46. Don’t destroy public universities.
  47. Demand for-profit college accountability.
  48. Stop the teacher shortage.
  49. Help recruit future teachers.
  50. Hire professional and credentialed teachers.
  51. Allow teachers to be creative.
  52. Provide teachers excellent resources.
  53. Teach reading teachers corrective reading.
  54. Respect the teaching profession.
  55. Give teachers time to plan.
  56. Support school libraries and librarians.
  57. Increase credentialed counselors.
  58. Honor teaching assistants.
  59. Treasure substitute teachers.
  60. Give teachers decent salaries.
  61. Provide fair teacher pensions.
  62. Feed hungry children.
  63. Help homeless families.
  64. Improve cafeteria food.
  65. Fund public education.
  66. Work together to save schools.
  67. Try invented spelling with children.
  68. Teach children reading is fun.
  69. Cherish books and free reading.
  70. Encourage children to read books.
  71. Increase free reading in class.
  72. Improve science classrooms.
  73. Reduce or end unnecessary homework.
  74. Rebuild old schools.
  75. Make school buildings safe.
  76. Teach children to love math.
  77. Give students a whole curriculum.
  78. Provide time for student socialization.
  79. Build tolerance towards others.
  80. Address mental health in school.
  81. Monitor philanthropy through feedback.
  82. Separation of church and state.
  83. Insist on participatory school boards.
  84. Consider tutoring in public schools.
  85. Help children socialize.
  86. Parents and teachers, work together.
  87. Teach children manners.
  88. Bring back cursive writing.
  89. End school to prison pipeline.
  90. Support children in public schools.
  91. Celebrate diversity.
  92. Teach cultural studies.
  93. Support second-language students.
  94. Plant school gardens.
  95. Make school buildings inviting.
  96. Ensure students have clean bathrooms.
  97. Welcome parents.
  98. Take interesting field trips.
  99. Laugh more.
  100. Have great after school programs.
  101. End Common Core.
  102. Let teachers use technology creatively. (Resseger)
  103. Stop collecting data on every keystroke. (Resseger)
  104. Beware algorithm-mediated content/assessment. (Resseger)
  105. Make all public schools great. (Katakowski)
  106. Refer curriculum to developmental needs. (Fiske)
  107. Stop unnecessary paperwork. (Karen T.)
  108. Teach life skills. (Karen T.)
  109. Save us from behavioral objectives. (Turrentine)
  110. Wonderful-arts education for all. (Chapman)
  111. Add foreign language to curriculum. (Martin)
  112. Include Latin in secondary schools. (Martin)
  113. Try invented spelling with children. (Swacker)
  114. Include phonics. (Swacker)
  115. Expanded access to high-quality Pre-K. (Kelly C.)
  116. Teaching practices connected to educational theory. (Kelly C.)
  117. Students taught to think critically. (Kelly C.)
  118. Students taught how to analyze sources. (Kelly C.)
  119. Student and teacher learning is visible/displayed. (Kelly C.)
  120. Beauty and joy incorporated in classrooms. (Kelly C.)
  121. Get outside. Pick up bugs. (Kelly C.)
  122. Wonder-inducing opportunities in lesson plans. (Kelly C.)
  123. Teaching and learning that is reflective. (Kelly C.)
  124. WAY fewer worksheets! (Kelly C.)
  125. Fair implementation of discipline policies (Kelly C.)
  126. End to systemic racism and classism. (Kelly C.)
  127. End to behaviorist reward-punishment systems. (Kelly C.)
  128. Families welcomed, included and heard. (Kelly C.)
  129. No profiting off of children. (Kelly C.)
  130. No business model of education. (Kelly C.)
  131. Education as a way of life. (Kelly C.)

It doesn’t have to end at 131. Add your ideas!

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children, good schools, Happy New Year, New Year Wishes, public schools in 2018, save public schools, students

Comments

  1. Jo says

    January 1, 2018 at 10:11 am

    Brilliant. May we do ALL of these in 2018.

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 1, 2018 at 10:17 am

      Much love to you, Jo, in 2018. Thank you for your advocacy on behalf of children and your wonderful poetry.

      https://poeticjusticect.com/

      Reply
  2. Sheila Resseger says

    January 1, 2018 at 10:21 am

    a wonderful list! I would only add: Stop collecting data on every keystroke a student makes on reductive online curriculum. Let teachers use technology creatively, rather than forcing them to stick children in front of algorithm-mediated content/assessment.

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 1, 2018 at 10:30 am

      Those are important. I removed one I realized was redundant, I added part of this as 39. Thanks, Sheila. And Happy New Year!

      Reply
      • Sheila Resseger says

        January 1, 2018 at 10:34 am

        Thanks, Nancy! I realized I didn’t follow directions and keep my comment to 5 words!

        Reply
        • Nancy Bailey says

          January 1, 2018 at 10:38 am

          Ha Ha. I was trying to train myself not to write so much. Streamlining. Your points are well taken though.

          Reply
  3. Thomas Ultican says

    January 1, 2018 at 10:23 am

    I am especially delighted to see someone calling for cursive writing. I don’t know if it is a great idea but I really like it. Let’s implement all 101 points.

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 1, 2018 at 10:35 am

      I agree, Thomas. I’ve been reading about its loss for a while. I think writing helps children spell. My guess is that the sensory movement is important. It is also a relaxing activity, unless there are extreme fine motor problems. Most children like to practice their letter writing with cursive. Thank you and Happy New Year!

      Reply
  4. James Katakowski says

    January 1, 2018 at 12:12 pm

    Make all public schools great

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 1, 2018 at 11:11 pm

      Great! Thanks James!

      Reply
  5. Jonathan Fiske says

    January 1, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    Love the comments. If I were to add one…
    “Refer curriculum to developmental needs”

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 1, 2018 at 11:11 pm

      Excellent! Thank you, Jonathan!

      Reply
  6. Karen T says

    January 1, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    Stop unnecessary paper work!

    Teach life skills.

    Reply
  7. Roy Turrentine says

    January 1, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    When I really want to,say something important, I get my favorite pen and write it slowly, in cursive. I really like my grandfather’s old fountain pen. The pump,quit working years ago, but I can still dip it in the ink..

    My five words?

    Save us from behavioral objectives.

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 1, 2018 at 11:12 pm

      I had someone hand me one of those pens to use the other day. It was quite nostalgic. Thanks, Roy!

      Reply
  8. laura H. Chapman says

    January 2, 2018 at 9:06 am

    Wonderful–arts education for all

    Reply
  9. Charles E. Martin says

    January 2, 2018 at 9:43 am

    Some really great ideas here. I did not see anything about foreign language instruction. I would love to see more foreign language instruction, especially in the early elementary schools. This is commonplace all over Europe, and we should emulate their ideas. Our economy is globalized, and our students need a grounding in the European languages, as well as Arabic and Mandarin Chinese.

    I would also love to see Latin brought back into secondary schools, All students need a basic understanding of Latin, it is the “anchor” of English, and definitely assists in building writing proficiency.

    Reply
    • Sheila Resseger says

      January 2, 2018 at 10:56 am

      Thank you for recommending Latin! I taught introductory Latin and Roman Civilization to middle school and high school students at the RI School for the Deaf for many years. I emphasized comparing grammatical structures in English and Latin, as well as English vocabulary derived from Latin (prefixes/roots/suffixes). Attention to the details of inflectional and derivational morphology provided a boost to accurately reading in English, as well as awareness of word class in writing.

      Reply
      • Charles E. Martin says

        January 2, 2018 at 2:21 pm

        My sincere pleasure! I am a sign language interpreter (do not have a C.I.) I read an article some years ago, The article said that H.S. kids enjoy Latin, so they can have a “secret’ language like “Klingon”, and can thus talk to each other in a “code”. I got a chuckle from that.

        Reply
  10. Duane E Swacker says

    January 2, 2018 at 10:07 am

    “Try invented spelling with children.”

    On a very limited basis in conjunction with phonetic component.

    Reply
  11. Kelly C. says

    January 3, 2018 at 11:37 pm

    -Expanded access to high-quality Pre-K.
    -Teaching practices connected to educational theory.
    -Students taught to think critically.
    -Students taught how to analyze sources.
    -Student and teacher learning is visible/displayed.
    -Beauty and joy incorporated in classrooms.
    -Get outside. Pick up bugs.
    -Wonder-inducing opportunities in lesson plans.
    -Teaching and learning that is reflective.
    -WAY fewer worksheets!
    -Fair implementation of discipline policies
    -End to systemic racism and classism
    -End to behaviorist reward-punishment systems
    -Families welcomed, included and heard
    -No profiting off of children
    -No business model of education.
    -Education as a way of life.

    Reply
    • Nancy Bailey says

      January 3, 2018 at 11:48 pm

      Oh these are just wonderful! Thank you, Kelly! I am going to add all these new ones to the list. Thank you for taking the time to add to the list!

      Reply
      • Kelly C. says

        January 7, 2018 at 1:47 pm

        Thanks for writing this list, and for including your commenters’ idea too, Nancy. 🙂

        Reply
        • Nancy Bailey says

          January 7, 2018 at 2:43 pm

          You supplied a great list! Thank you!

          Reply
  12. Julie Westmacott says

    January 7, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    I think if you put “end Common Core” first some of the others would be taken care of…

    Reply
  13. Jessica says

    January 9, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    Music every day for every kid!

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. 101 Wishes For Students in 2018—In 5 Words or Less | IEA Voice says:
    January 3, 2018 at 3:13 am

    […] Source: 101 Wishes For Students in 2018—In 5 Words or Less […]

    Reply
  2. The year in review, as seen by… | bloghaunter says:
    January 8, 2018 at 11:11 am

    […] rather a list of “101 (And MORE) Wishes For Students in 2018—In 5 Words or Less.”  (Here’s the link).  I include it here, because the wishes (including the additions made by commenters) […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

front cover

An education glossary with an attitude.

Buy Now

front cover

Do we really want an America where we no longer own our public schools?

Buy Now

front cover

This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.

Buy Now

Follow me!

Enter your email address to subscribe to my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Connect With Me!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Nancy E. Bailey Follow

Author, Ph.D. Ed. Leadership and longtime teacher, Blogging for Kids, Teachers, Parents & Democratic Public Schools.

NancyEBailey1
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
lvstodance Kathy Beery, M.Ed. @lvstodance ·
22 Mar

@bluevirginia @RTDSchapiro FYI, Tennessee schools rank 28th in the Nation. Virginia ranks 4th. That's it, that's the tweet.

Reply on Twitter 1638584218203693076 Retweet on Twitter 1638584218203693076 4 Like on Twitter 1638584218203693076 11 Twitter 1638584218203693076
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
plthomasedd Paul Thomas @plthomasedd ·
21 Mar

The Science of Scarcity and Sleep that Education Reformers (Want to) Ignore https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/03/20/the-science-of-scarcity-and-sleep-that-education-reformers-want-to-ignore/ via @plthomasEdD

Reply on Twitter 1638146543768174597 Retweet on Twitter 1638146543768174597 5 Like on Twitter 1638146543768174597 7 Twitter 1638146543768174597
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
doctorsam7 Dr. Sam Bommarito @doctorsam7 ·
20 Mar

Things to ponder about the current discussions around SOR. From ChatGPT @ChatwithGPT
https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/?fbclid=IwAR0Fhkczq46nJq8n5ob1q2xF5Q9aFc9ya04TEgYCaVTyEElEQg_UbWfoROY

Reply on Twitter 1637853806833590275 Retweet on Twitter 1637853806833590275 12 Like on Twitter 1637853806833590275 37 Twitter 1637853806833590275
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
19 Mar

I asked ChatGPT "Is the 'science of reading' settled science that determines how reading should be taught?" Here's the response. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/

Reply on Twitter 1637502147515351043 Retweet on Twitter 1637502147515351043 19 Like on Twitter 1637502147515351043 47 Twitter 1637502147515351043
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
deguire_mike Mike DeGuire, Ph. D. @deguire_mike ·
20 Mar

"The privatization movement has been strategically designed...by billionaires and their fellow investors for specific purposes: to lower their own tax burden, and ideologically to dismantle public education." @NPEaction @NancyEBailey1 @TheAndySpears
https://medium.com/@jfiske80/billionaires-and-their-investors-are-impacting-education-policies-in-colorado-and-especially-in-c523579674af

Reply on Twitter 1637957759751831558 Retweet on Twitter 1637957759751831558 38 Like on Twitter 1637957759751831558 54 Twitter 1637957759751831558
Load More

Archives

Tag Cloud

Arne Duncan Autism Betsy DeVos Bill Gates charter schools class size Common Core Common Core covid-19 disabilities dyslexia early childhood education Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Florida high-stakes testing kindergarten learning disabilities Online Learning parents Personalized Learning phonics preschool private schools privatization public schools reading recess retention School Choice school libraries School Privatization school reform schools Social Emotional Learning special education students Students with Disabilities Teacher Preparation teachers Teach for America teaching Technology testing the arts vouchers

Copyright © 2023 Nancy E. Bailey · Website powered by Standing Pine Media.