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Love OUR Public Schools: Children & Their Teachers!

February 14, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

On this one-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, I am remembering the students and their parents and teachers, especially those who lost loved ones. MSD represents a great public school. Beyond the sadness of that day, we saw what a good public school can be. We saw loving, supportive parents. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Public School Safety, public schools, Saving Public Schools, School Choice, students, teachers

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

Teachers, Hold On to Your Desks! YOU Make Instruction Work!

August 17, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Teachers, hold on to your desks! Your classroom footprint matters! It’s always a thrill this time of year to see teachers on social media showing off their classrooms. Not only are teachers proud of their workspace, they understand that the ambience in those rooms is critical to how students feel about learning and school. Teachers often dip […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Desks, Personalized Learning, Self Instruction, students, teacher desks, Teacherless Classrooms, teachers, Technology

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

January 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 28 Comments

Provide children plenty of recess. Pay attention to child development. Cherish play for children. Encourage teens to socialize. Lower class sizes. Bring back the arts. Provide all students art instruction. Give students credentialed art teachers. Let children dance. Sing-along with students. Teach students to play instruments. Display student art in schools. Bring back school plays. […]

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

The “Education Revolution”=Chaos!

December 30, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The Education Revolution—we hear these words a lot lately referring to public schools. Public schools have always incorporated changes to the curriculum. Some have worked and some have not. But the overhaul to make technology-driven charter schools is unproven and drastic. Here’s a list of Silicon Schools. They are charter schools. Groups like the Relay […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Digital learners, Education Revolution, High Tech High, Privatization of Public Schools, Professional Teachers, public schools, Relay Graducate School of Education, Silicon Charter Schools, students, Teach for America, teachers, Technology

Luck vs. Grit: Lessons from a Cubs Fan

October 31, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

As Luck Would Have it. William Shakespeare No one understands luck like a Cubs fan. And there is a lesson there for students in this era of grit. Grit involves the thinking that through perseverance and resilience you can reach your goals. To some extent the ability to overcome difficulties and hang in there when […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Grit, luck, mindset, students

Missing Socialization in Today’s Public Schools

October 28, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

How do democratic public schools address the socialization of students? How are children brought together to make a kinder world? Does anyone even ask that question today? This past weekend I read “My Pedagogic Creed” by John Dewey (a little light reading on a Sunday afternoon), and I was struck by how far our public […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Competion, elementary school, High School Public Schools, instruction, John Dewey, parents, recess, School Lunches, schools, Schools as Social Institutions, Segregation, Social Institutions, socialization, students, teachers, Technology

What If the Wealthy Donated to Fixing Public School Buildings?

January 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

According to a 2014 PBS report, more than half of the nation’s public school buildings are in bad shape, and it will take $197 billion to fix or rebuild them. Where will all the money come from to do this? I checked, and most of the Presidential candidates on both sides have said that they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Crummy School Buildings, Detroit School Facilities, Poor School Facilities, Student Interuptions, Student Learning, students, teachers

Some Good Education News from 2015

December 31, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Writing about education is interesting, but it can also be depressing. Sometimes it feels like being a hamster on one of those wheels. So as we close out 2015, here is a list of some good news that happened in 2015. If you have something to add, let me know! Happy New Year! These are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Chicago Teachers Union, ESSA Act, For-Profit Colleges, Hillary Clinton, Michigan Task Force, New York and Common Core, parents, Pediatricians and Special Education, Politicians, public schools, recess, special education, St. Jude, State of Washington, students, Success Academy, Teacher Education, teachers, testing, the arts

Nine Reasons to Look Down on Think it Up

September 15, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

I missed the Think it Up glitz the other night. But I have seen some of the video. So what’s wrong with the wealthy wanting to crowdsource Americans to donate to student/teacher projects that will change the world? Anthony Cody writes a piece about Think it Up on his blog “Living in Dialogue,” and I […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Donors Choose, Privatization of Public Schools, public schools, students, Teach for America, teachers, Think it Up

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