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Nineteen For 2019: Choose This, NOT That, to Save Public Education in the New Year!

December 31, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

1.  Kindergarten NOT The New First Grade Kindergartners should be treated like the four and five-year-old students that they are and not pushed to be first graders. The activities and instruction for this age group are well established. Real educators should take charge and ensure that there’s much free play and age appropriate activities. 2.  […]

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The School Safety Commission’s Troubling Ties to the Border Crisis

July 14, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

School safety is simmering in everyone’s minds during summer vacation. But looking at the individuals on the Federal Commission on School Safety should give us pause. How do they view children? There’s cognitive dissonance when they say they want safe schools, yet they thought it fine to separate babies and children from their parents in the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Child Separation from Parents, Children at the border, Family Separation, Federal Commission on School Safety, Gun Control, Gun Safety in Schools, Immigrant Families, public education, public schools, school safety, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielson

America’s Students are Brilliant! The Cynics Can No Longer Claim Otherwise!

February 25, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Beyond the sadness over the terrible event at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, still unimaginable, there was something that stood out last week. America’s kids are smart! Really smart! They’re smarter than the school reformers who have said ugly things against them for years! President Trump referred to public schools in his Inaugural Address as an education […]

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No Mending of Broken Hearts—End Assault Weapons and Gun Violence NOW!

February 17, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Does America love its kids? After Valentine’s Day the answer when it comes to many lawmakers is a definite NO! Even if you don’t live in Parkland, many knew those who did. Maybe you sat on the edge of your seat Wednesday, hoping against all odds that it wasn’t the parent you knew who was […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AR-15, Assault Rifles, Assault Weapons, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Violence, Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School, NRA, Parkland School Shootings, President Trump, public schools

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It's time to end third-grade retention! There are better solutions, including looping grades 1 and 2.

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Been thinking a lot about how offering GEN ED kids "interventions" that are 1:1, highly individualized, basically mimicking what Special Ed does, but done by the overwhelmed gen ed teachers seems like an attempt to circumvent sped services in many cases on the backs of workers.

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Kinderchat Guides to the Classroom is a kindergarten teacher's friend. Clearly written, teachers address problems, but advice is especially useful for understanding child development in the K classroom. #Kinderchat @hechternacht https://nancyebailey.com/2023/11/29/saving-kindergarten-real-teachers-write-the-kinderchat-guides-with-real-solutions/

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Teaching Young Children the Meaning of Gratitude via @bamradionetwork #ece #earlyed #earlychildhood

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