Tag: schools
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It’s Time to Draw a Line in the Sand
The traditional urban school district is broken, can’t be fixed, and must be replaced. Andy Smarick, Urban School Systems of the Future, 2012 People were shocked when Andy Smarick wrote this about America’s urban school districts 10 years ago. But today, very few urban school districts have shown any noticeable progress in getting black, brown,…
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Friday News Roundup…
Welcome to A Better Path to Learning’s first “Friday News Roundup,” where we review the news that impacts your access to better learning. Teacher Job Satisfaction Hits an All-Time Low (EdWeek) According to the Merrimack College Teacher Survey released this week, only 12% of the more than 1,300 teachers surveyed said they were “very satisfied”…
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Do You Own a Learning Plan?
Every learner should have a learning plan. Adult learners. Young learners. Every learner. What’s a learning plan? Well, let’s start with what a learning plan is not. A learning plan is not a lesson plan, nor is it a scope and sequence, or a curriculum guide. Lesson plans, scopes and sequences, and curriculum guides attempt…
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Let’s Admit It! We Hate Teachers.
Last night I was reading my hometown newspaper, the Avoca (Iowa) Journal-Herald, and came upon an article that announced the local school board’s decision to increase teacher salaries for the upcoming school year. When I saw what the beginning salary was going to be for an Avoca teacher I almost fell of the couch. The…
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The Law to Fix Learning is 57 Years Old Today!
57 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) into law. The ESEA extended our federal government’s influence into public education, which was previously reserved mostly to the individual states. The act approved federal funding to improve professional development for teachers, equip America’s classrooms with improved instructional materials, provided…
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