• 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

The Trouble with Social-Emotional Learning: Why Be Concerned? Here’s Why!

May 2, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

. . . we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on our children for profit.  It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, and demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children. ~President Biden, State of the Union Address, March 1, 2022 Social-emotional learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: data, data collection on children, online data, Social Emotional Learning

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 5 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

Next Page »

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
doctorsam7 Dr. Sam Bommarito @doctorsam7 ·
16h

Thanks to @eriuqse695 for bringin this article to ur attention. Chall's views @ChaseJYoung1 @NarelleLyn @londonjohn9 @LRobbTeacher @ericlitwinbooks @pvalleybooks @JPageLiteracy @TCRecord @RacheGabriel @ssvincent @MicheleDufresne @plthomasEdD @EllinKeene @TimRasinski1 https://twitter.com/DoctorSam7/status/1640376017809289219

Dr. Sam Bommarito @DoctorSam7

@KJWinEducation Also, consider this well-researched piece indicating that the views of the extreme phonics folks don't square the views of Jean Chall, the researcher who championed the use of phonics during the last reading wars. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/?fbclid=IwAR3K0fz-cWKbAh-mitL347hMrWGEjC0Gtd_PIxegTc0RiuzPoXxXSdoW7Cg

Reply on Twitter 1640377111025270785 Retweet on Twitter 1640377111025270785 3 Like on Twitter 1640377111025270785 8 Twitter 1640377111025270785
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
nepctweet NEPC @nepctweet ·
15h

"Good teaching has always been – even if unacknowledged – about applying new knowledge and challenging beliefs." @NancyEBailey1 @janresseger https://bit.ly/42Hw3td

Reply on Twitter 1640392603136061442 Retweet on Twitter 1640392603136061442 5 Like on Twitter 1640392603136061442 3 Twitter 1640392603136061442
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
nancyflanagan nancyflanagan @nancyflanagan ·
26 Mar

Remember the days when Arne Duncan insisted that having different ‘goal posts’ in every state was preventing us from improving public schools in America? Good times.

I wish I could say we’ve evolved since 2015, when Duncan stepped down. https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/2023/03/25/the-absolute-folly-of-standardization/

Reply on Twitter 1639996242934616065 Retweet on Twitter 1639996242934616065 5 Like on Twitter 1639996242934616065 14 Twitter 1639996242934616065
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
leoniehaimson leonie haimson @leoniehaimson ·
26 Mar

Reminder: join us tonight at 7PM EST for #TalkoutofSchool @wbai with Rep. @JamaalBowmanNY discussing his new bill #MoreTeachingLessTesting; & 2 PEP members @tomcsheppard & @OuterBoroHero explaining why they voted no on the Mayor's education budget.

Reply on Twitter 1640115045035126796 Retweet on Twitter 1640115045035126796 3 Like on Twitter 1640115045035126796 10 Twitter 1640115045035126796
Retweet on Twitter Nancy E. Bailey Retweeted
nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
26 Mar

Science of Reading camp never discusses the importance of picture books. How much time do children get to explore them? How often are they read to for enjoyment? This is worrisome. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/

Reply on Twitter 1640105213276180480 Retweet on Twitter 1640105213276180480 21 Like on Twitter 1640105213276180480 81 Twitter 1640105213276180480
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.