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Learning Management Software: Necessary Tool, or Wasteful Cash Cow in the Time of Covid-19?

September 29, 2020 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

By Darren Victory One thing is clear: Teaching in the age of COVID is no picnic. Teachers, students, and caregivers are struggling to navigate the ongoing crisis in ways that preserve their emotional and physical health. It all feels so chaotic, so disorganized, and at times so… impossible. No wonder wine sales have shot through […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: covid-19, Learning Management Software (LMS), teaching, Technology and Schools

Who’s Behind America’s Superintendents and School Transformation?

February 24, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The School Superintendents Association (AASA) recently met in San Diego. Superintendents from around the country gathered to discuss what they saw as important to school leadership and public education. The future of education was a prominent theme of the meeting, with the overall focus on one word, transformation. They saluted digital and futuristic learning, reflected […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Pay for Success, School Privatization, School Transformation, Social-emotional learning SEL, Social-Impact Bonds SIMs, Student Privacy, Superintendents, Teacher Recruitment, teachers, teaching, Technology, The Future of Education, The Personalization of Education

Teach for America: Their Harmful Effect on Special Education

January 12, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Since 1990, America has put many school children, usually poor, in classrooms with Teach for America Corps Members (CMs) who get five weeks of training. They’ve also placed novices in special education classrooms. Many corporations and individuals donate to this group, undermining professional teachers who commit to teaching as their choice of a career. There’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, School Privatization, special education, Teach for America, teachers, teaching

Technology or Books? The Right Book for Christmas and the Holidays

December 22, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

When I was a child, my aunt and uncle, who lived in Chicago, would always send me a cool present for Christmas. I would eagerly run home from school looking for that package attached to the mailbox. It would be wrapped in brown paper and string. The packaging paper would be removed on Christmas Eve, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Book Gifts, books, Books and film, Gifts for Christmas, Happy Holidays!, Merry Christmas, reading, reading difficulties, Reading Interests, Screen Time, teaching, Technology

Missing an S for Science in the STEM Frenzy

January 6, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

In the midst of the hype about STEM, what happened to science in public schools? Two recent reports in Education Week bemoan the stunning loss of both chemistry and physics in high schools across the country. Three out of five secondary schools don’t offer chemistry! When they do, there’s disparity. Poor African Americans and Hispanic […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Change the Equation, Education Commision of the States, science, Science Instruction, science teachers, STEM, Teacher Shortage, teachers, teaching, Venture Lab, Verizon

Require Ed. Secretary Betsy DeVos to Teach in a Public School

December 3, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Betsy DeVos and any corporate reformer who impacts school policy should be required to spend at least a month each year teaching in a public school classroom. DeVos just attended Gov. Jeb Bush’s ExcelinEd meeting in Nashville. Let Jeb Bush and his corporate friends and politicians who drive corporate reform also teach for a month. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Bullying, class size, Corporate education reform, ExcelinEd, Gov. Bob Graham's Workdays, Gov. Jeb Bush, public education, status quo, Teacher Contracts, teaching, teaching degrees

Learning and Happiness: The Problem with Social-Emotional Learning

November 4, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Happiness is a real factor when it comes to learning. It’s important to a child’s identity formation and how they relate to their environment (see study below). But can you teach happiness? There’s a push for social-emotional learning (SEL) which leads some to think that happiness can be taught. But SEL is not what it […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: creative teaching, happiness, public schools, School Privatization, schools, SEL, Social Emotional Learning, teachers, teaching

Educating Betsy DeVos

February 15, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Betsy DeVos does not understand what it is like to teach in any school let alone poor public schools. She does not understand what the lives of real teachers and students are like. She does not understand the problems facing many of America’s children. These problems won’t be solved with a voucher. They also won’t […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Common Core, learning, mental health, public schools, Real Problems, School Nurses, special education, teaching, Technology, vouchers

Warped Message: Avoid the Classroom

April 3, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 21 Comments

US News and World Report just printed an article that will do absolutely nothing to motivate anyone to go into teaching. Why? The title is “Pursue an Education Career but Stay Out of the Classroom.” Listen, US News and World Report: The most important job in schooling is classroom teaching. Everything else is periphery. Ask […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adult Learning, Chicago Teacher Strike, Chicago Teachers Union, classroom, Education Leadership, Foundations, Health Education, Media, Policy and Research, School Psychology, Speech and Language Pathology, Teacher, teaching, Technology, U.S. News and World Report

Gambling on Fast-Track Teachers in Nevada and Beyond and Personalized Learning

January 27, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Nevada school officials claim they can’t find 1,000 teachers to fill their classrooms. Education Week is claiming this isn’t much different than what’s found in the rest of the country. In the middle of it all you will think about Personalized Learning. Education Week won’t let you forget it. If you don’t have a need […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Competency-Based Learning, Computers, Las Vegas, Mastery Learning, Nevada, Online Instruction, Personalized Learning, Proficiency-Based Learning, Standards-Based Learning, Teacher Recruitment, teaching, Technology

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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arizona_sos Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos ·
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Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

http://bit.ly/SellingSchoolChoice

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danwuori Dan Wuori @danwuori ·
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On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

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My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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drbradjohnson 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @drbradjohnson ·
28 Jan

Besides the many issues with standardized testing. Most students have no idea what they missed on the tests and teachers don't either. And by time they get results students have moved on to next grade. Making it useless to evaluate teachers & districts too.

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ichrislehman Christopher Lehman 🤪 @ichrislehman ·
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One of many absurd theories coming out of states like VA is that reading must be taught from a packaged curriculum followed with fidelity.

I have never ever ever worked with a curriculum that didn’t need to be slightly or completely revised to meet the needs of actual students.

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