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15 Ways to Help Teachers During Covid, Instead of Turning Them Into Scapegoats and Making Them Quit

January 9, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Teachers are continually being made into scapegoats over a virus not under their control. Here’s a list of classroom problems from the beginning of the pandemic. Here’s a checklist on how to quit scapegoating teachers and help them instead. Suggestions from teachers, parents, and students, especially teachers currently teaching, are welcome. 1. Doctors Since the […]

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A Great Profession: Consider Teachers’ Needs

November 28, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

During this troubling time when we should be helping each other through one of the roughest patches we’ve faced as a nation, teachers have become scapegoats, blamed for everything involving social change and Covid-19. Teachers tried to protect themselves and their families during the pandemic and worried about protecting their students and now they’re blamed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, school closures, Teacher Appreciation, teachers, the pandemic

How States Are Privatizing Public Schools to Tech Companies During the Delta Variant Uptick

September 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

It’s unconscionable that states and local school districts across the country have eliminated the remote learning option where children connect with their classroom teachers online. Instead, they’re opening virtual schools, outsourcing to for-profit companies, using the pandemic to privatize public schooling. Parents fearful of the Delta variant and in-person schooling, hearing dire warnings about sick […]

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14 Reasons Why It Might STILL Be Dangerous to Open School Buildings

August 24, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

For parents and educators, many concerns still surround the virus and sending children back into school buildings. 1. It Seems Like The Virus Should Be Over—It’s Not!  This summer looked like the end of the pandemic was in sight, especially if vaccinated. But now the Delta variant swirls around children, teachers, and staff inside schools. […]

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Where’s the Biden Administration on School Problems Facing Students, Teachers, and Parents?

May 16, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

The pandemic showed us that public schools are critical. Understandably, Covid-19 has been front and center. But the Biden administration glosses over or is silent on critical school issues. Sometimes these topics are front and center not in a good way in State legislatures or ignored altogether. Frustrated parents will seek alternatives, and there’s a […]

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The Loss That Matters This Mother’s Day

May 9, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The loss important to understand this year, the most critical loss, is not learning loss. It involves the loss many children are facing after losing a mom or dad to Covid-19. Or it could be a grandma or grandpa, a beloved aunt or uncle, or sister or brother, even a friend. On this Mother’s Day, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children, counselors, covid-19, grief, help, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Loss, pandemic, school, school loss, School Psychologists, teachers

President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Should Include Teachers! Here’s Why

April 3, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

It’s good that President Biden is focusing on updating school buildings in his infrastructure plan. But there’s another crisis his administration should address. America needs a national movement to get well-prepared teachers into our public school classrooms. The teaching profession has been in crisis mode for years. Much of this crisis has been generated by […]

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Covid-19 School Contradictions, Confusion, and Mistrust

March 24, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Covid-19 is a strange phenomenon without any proven how-to guides. Recommendations and contradictions surrounding Covid-19 and schools have raised uncertainty. When there’s a lack of clarity, people become suspicious of what they’re told, and they wonder what and who to believe. Parents and Teachers Can’t Agree Many parents believe schools are safe, few children get […]

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Kindergarten Learning Loss Message Is HORRIFYING for Children!

March 19, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, high-stakes testing, Common Core, and other bad school reform measures are coming together with Covid-19 to destroy the futures of America’s youngest learners! They include the same equity and disparity talk used to ramp up the above harmful policies. Those changes to schools, all that rigor talk, […]

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The 12 Point Covid-19 DISCONNECT Between Teachers and Those Who Want Schools Open Now!

February 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Pressure is being placed on teachers to return to in-person classes. Here’s why that’s a problem. 1. Precautions The CDC  and Dr. Fauci and President Biden want all schools to return to in-person learning with precautions in place. But precautions are exactly what many schools often lack. Teachers know best whether or not precautions are […]

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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Children must first learn reading is fun. Pushing phonics on young children means nothing if they can't connect it to the joy of reading. Jim Trelease knew the importance of reading aloud. His book holds the key.
https://nancyebailey.com/2022/08/17/reading-aloud-to-help-children-read-well-their-whole-lives/

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When you are trying to sell something that you know is not going to work… https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1558849930948534273

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.@GovDeSantis on recruiting veterans to the teaching field: "Our veterans have a wealth of knowledge and experience they can bring to bear in the classroom. [...] For too long, the requirements to be a teacher have been too rigid." https://trib.al/1bPu78k

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The state of #recess in #america is horrendous. There are a few states where mandatory recess for K-8 have been achieved, but even there the minimum is too low. See @NancyEBailey1 post on recess: https://bit.ly/3bFyd6k.
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Pre-K with a state-certified teacher should be a right, not a privilege.

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