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6 Ways High-Stakes Standardized Testing Destroys Student Voice

January 14, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The National Council of the Teachers of English is Helping Students Find Their Voices in Challenging Times. This title stood out as well worth exploring, but it’s also a reminder that since public education became focused on high-stakes standardized testing, public schools’ emphasis has been on scores, not students’ voices. Student’s thoughts and ideas should […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Data Collection in school, high stakes standardized testing, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Social Emotional Learning, student self-expression, student voice, testing alignment, the loss of the arts

Who Does the Biden/Sanders Education Unity Panel Unite?

May 16, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Many want to say good riddance to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her boss. But educators and parents fighting for public education, and the ninety percent of students who attend public schools, deserve a more inclusive group of people to push back on harmful school reform. The Biden/Sanders Unity Education Task Force leaves much to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Biden-Sanders Education Unity Panel, black and brown parent advocates, charter schools, children with disabilities, public schools, School Privatization, Social Emotional Learning

The Need for School Psychologists at this Critical Time

September 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Public schools provide support staff that help teachers consider the whole child. This includes the role of the school psychologist. These professionals are the experts that make a school and school system complete. They provide children and teens the mental health support they need. Since the corporate school reform march to privatize public education, those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: mental health in schools, School Privatization, school psychologist shortage, School Psychologists, Social Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning’s Transformation of Schools is Worrisome

July 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is being pushed into public schools. It could mean many things, restorative justice, meditation, anti-bullying programs, and much more. But SEL is not just an add-on program. It’s whole-school systematic change from teaching academics to focusing on students and personality formation. Books and online programs galore are being written about SEL and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Online Social-Emotional Learning, Social Emotional Learning, social-emotional assessment, social-emotional learning programs, Social-Emotional Standards

Leaving Childhood Out in the Rain!

January 31, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Why do corporate CEOs, foundations, and policymakers want kindergartners to learn more advanced material at a faster rate? Why is this important to them? If children are made to grow up quickly, what happens to childhood? Why are they against play and art for children in public schools? Why do they push children to read […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, corporate school reform, Demanding Advanced Work in Kindergarten, kindergarten, kindergarten expectation, Kindergarten rigor, losing childhood, Social Emotional Learning, testing, The Chalkbeat

Social-Emotional Learning and Teachers Students Love? Teachers in Los Angeles!

January 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Social-emotional learning (SEL) in schools makes many parents and teachers nervous. We worry there’s an ulterior motive to collect behavioral data on how children think and act, and that the ultimate goal is to privatize public schools and track students. Talk about transforming our public schools away from cognitive learning to SEL is everywhere! Those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aspen Institute, behavioral data collection, class size, counselors, L.A. Teachers Strike, Librarians, lowering class size, nurses, Social Emotional Learning, students, teachers, tracking

What Santa Claus and Social-Emotional Learning Have in Common

December 20, 2018 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

You better watch out, you better not cry, Better not pout, I’m telling you why Santa Claus (and SEL assessment are) comin’ to town. ~Song lyrics to “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” by Songwriters: Haven Gillespie / J. Fred Coots (with alteration). Why is there such an intense push for social-emotional learning (SEL) involving young […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavior, behavioral assessment, Behavioral Problems, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Online Social-Emotional Learning, Social Emotional Learning, social-emotional assessment, Social-Emotional Standards

The Dangers of SEL Assessment Data to Students with LD Social Disabilities and Autism

October 27, 2018 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Today, I would like to bring attention to the dangers of social-emotional learning assessment to a segment of our student population. The focus on behavior is becoming the new purpose of school, and that alone should raise questions. School boards, PTA’s, and school organizations should be discussing how these curriculum changes impact what and how […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, Autism, autistic spectrum, behavioral assessment, behavioral tier groups, Children, learning disabilities, school, SEL, sel behavioral assessment, social disability, Social Emotional Learning, social intereaction, students with autism

Will Teachers Be Accountable to Make “Happy” Students?

October 23, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Here comes VAM for social-emotional learning! Controversy erupted years ago over holding teachers accountable for academic test scores. VAM (Value Added Measurement) was supposed to have been put to rest, but it never really left. Move over VAM, now teachers will be responsible for student behavior too! Back in June, Peter Greene, writing for Forbes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: happiness, noncognitive skills, Social Emotional Learning, Social skills, social-emotional assessment, Social-Emotional Standards, soft skills

My Blogging Anniversary: How Has School Reform Changed in Five Years?

August 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

I recently passed the five-year anniversary of when I started writing my blog. What has changed? In this post, I analyze some of the issues I’ve written about over the years. Then, I thank you for your support. Change or lack of change in education can seem dark and foreboding, but there’s a great deal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 5th year anniversary, charter schoos, class size, Common Core, data, early childhood education, reading, recess, retention, Social Emotional Learning, special education, standardized testing, Technology, the arts, vouchers

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NancyEBailey1Nancy E. Bailey@NancyEBailey1·
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Districts seem to find $$$ for tech as teachers retire prematurely due to Covid-19 fears. What does that tell us? Putting 2 and 2 together. https://nancyebailey.com/2021/01/17/endgame-using-covid-19-to-permanently-transform-schooling/

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EricCeresaEric Ceresa@EricCeresa·
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@clay_mcch @NancyEBailey1 This is an excellent argument for raising teachers' pay, not any sort of argument against a $15 min wage. And raising the min wage DOES raise wages for workers near the minimum. We just don't usually think about the fact that teachers fit that definition.

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tulticanThomas Ultican@tultican·
16 Jan

Charter Schools Are Killing Saint Louis Public. The City Is Nailing The Coffin Shut. by Lexi Perez Lane https://link.medium.com/8taMmwG44cb

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clay_mcchClay McChristian@clay_mcch·
15 Jan

So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷‍♂️

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chicagospedpacChicago SpedPac@chicagospedpac·
15 Jan

.@ChiPubSchools can you tell us how many specIal educators were forced to resign this week due to your policy of not accommodating remote instruction? Break it down by SpEd teachers, SECAs and clinicians

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