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Personalized (Online) Learning Fails at Classroom Dynamics and Socialization

November 24, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah Think of all that we could sha-are Let’s get together everyday Every way and everywhere And though we haven’t got a lot We could be sharin’ all we’ve got Together ~Haley Mills, From Walt Disney’s The Parent Trap The public school classroom is a sacred community. How students socialize in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: auditory feedback. socialization, Class dynamics, Class dynamics vs. Online Instruction, Communication, Digital Learning, discipline, Diversity, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, public schools, school, special education, student expression, student feedback

Code of Conduct Books and Pasco County’s Kindergarten “Anarchy”

August 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

It’s important to pay attention to how discipline will be used in a child’s school. On the first day, a parent might be shocked upon entering their child’s kindergarten classroom to be handed a student conduct code or rule book by a smiling teacher. This book will have all the dos and don’ts involving behavior. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anarchy, Bullying, Conformity, Democracy, discipline, parents, Pasco County, Peer Pressure, Rules, School Resource Officers, Student Discipline Code Books

Preschool Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Discipline in Disguise?

June 10, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Social Emotional Learning is popular! But why do school reformers discuss SEL like it has been hiding under a rock someone just kicked over? Haven’t preschool teachers always worked with children on how to get along? While reading and thinking about preschool, I thought it would be interesting to explore SEL as it relates to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: discipline, preschool, SEL, Social Emotional Learning

Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

April 17, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The point often made during debates by Sec. Hillary Clinton is that children should not get a poor education based on their zip code. Most of us would agree about poverty and its harmful effects on children in school. But the zip code message was co-opted a long time ago by those who want to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Counseling Services, Detroit, discipline, Hillary Clinton, libraries, Online Instruction, Over-Testing, Poor Schools, poverty, private schools, Punishing Schools, recess, Rich Schools, Rundown School Facilities, School Nurses, Strictness, teachers, the arts, Wealthy Schools, Whole Curriculum, Zip Codes

What’s Innovative about Charter Schools?

November 9, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

What is innovative about charter schools? What do they do that is so unique it has provided traditional public schools with new methods of working with students? I often hear politicians and charter advocates praising charter schools for what they can give public schools in the way of new ideas. I am wondering what innovations […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, discipline, Fairness, Funding, innovation, Resources, Traditional Public Schools

“High Expectations” and the Criminalization of America’s Students

October 28, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

By now most of us have seen the video of the resource officer using brute force to yank a female student out of her desk. Appalling, most agree. But this country has been criminalizing students, if not violently, inhumanely and subtly, in their schools for a long time. Why do Americans put up with it? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: America's Schools, Criminalization of Students, discipline, Harsh Treatment of Students, High Expectations, Militaristic Schools, Prison-like Schools, Zero Tolerance

The Role of Public Schools in the NFL Scandal

September 18, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

The NFL is in a tight spot right now. They don’t want to lose their talent and the dollars that might come with a championship. But they are in danger of losing their image. Domestic and child abuse are ugly topics, when they surface. They provoke intense emotions. It’s been difficult to watch the different […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Corporal Punishment, discipline, NFL Scandal, public schools

How to Teach Good Students to Be Criminals

March 1, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Seventeen year old Chaz Seale could have been any of us. In a hurry to get out the door he accidentally grabbed a beer instead of a can of soda out of the fridge and put it in his lunchbox. Upon arriving at school, he realized his mistake and told his teacher what happened. Now […]

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: Chaz Seale, discipline, Jonathan Turley, records, Zero Tolerance

Misguided Education Reform

December 31, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A nice thing that happened to me this past year was the publishing, back in July, of my book, Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, by R & L Books (Rowman & Littlefield). It covers many of the same topics you will find on my blog. I discuss special education which might be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: charter school buildings, Common Core, discipline, early childhood education, emotional disabilities, gifted, IDEA, learning disabilities, libraries, loss of the arts, Misguided Education Reform, PL 94-142, poor/unsafe school facilities, re-authorizations, reading, Reading First, special education, testing, Zero Tolerance

Don’t Sit Alone and Cry in Your Soup! Let’s All Advocate for Students!

October 9, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

One of the pleasures of starting a blog is to hear from parents and teachers. Some post. Some don’t want to put information online, but they want to be heard. Others comment on Facebook. The stories are often heart wrenching. Teachers recognize they can’t teach the way they know they should because they are pushed […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: accountabilty, Advocacy, children with disabilites, Common Core, corporal punshment, discipline, hope, struggle, success

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The School Equity and Staffing Act (HB1929) would fully fund the #VBOE’s prescribed changes for #Virginia schools to meet the needs of students. This imp legislation is up in @VaHouse Approps. @DelegateTorian @MarkSicklesVA we ask that you vote to #FundOurSchools.

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"Students don’t need to be browbeaten with nonstop, mostly online instruction, repeatedly hearing claims they’ve fallen behind." @NancyEBailey1 @McKinsey
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Don't exactly agree with everything, but President Biden has a real workable plan for schools. https://nancyebailey.com/2021/01/24/8-concerns-and-whats-positive-about-the-presidents-plan-for-schooling-during-covid-19/

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8 Concerns and What’s Positive About The President’s Plan for Schooling During Covid-19 by ⁦@NancyEBailey1⁩ https://nancyebailey.com/2021/01/24/8-concerns-and-whats-positive-about-the-presidents-plan-for-schooling-during-covid-19/

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hanna_hurleyHanna Hurley@hanna_hurley·
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@NancyEBailey1 This setting is not good for children or any other living things!
This arrangement addresses the virus, not the needs of children, teachers & learning.
WE MUST DO BETTER!
We have to get this right before we unplug Zoom.

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