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In Case You Were Wondering What Educators Do On National Teacher Day…

It’s National Teacher Day. So, on this day, teachers will be teaching good nutrition.

And first aid.

And how to say, “Excuse me.”

We’ll diversify our curriculum and instruction to meet the personal and individual needs of all our students including the blind, the hearing impaired, the emotionally disturbed, the physically challenged, the cognitively disabled, the gifted and talented and the kids who don’t fit neatly into any of those categories but just need us to give them a hug and a little extra encouragement; we’ll make sure they’ve had their immunizations, make sure they understand disease control and how to cough into their sleeves and how to resist drugs, alcohol and tobacco; we’ll give career counseling, pregnancy counseling, mental health counseling and counseling to juvenile offenders; (more…)

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What do Eva Longoria, Emilio Estefan and Wilmer Valderrama have in common with Lily?

Our very own Lily Eskelsen was honored today by the Latino Leaders Network with their Eagle Leadership Award. She was recognized for her  “outstanding contributions to the Latino community” and her dedication as an educator.  Lily Eskelsen Award Presentation

Juan Sepúlveda, former director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, introduced Lily as someone  who serves as  “a voice for teachers across the country,” who is not afraid to be honest, and who has a personal story that represents the American Dream.

Read the full article here

Who are some of the other famous Latinos who have received this prestigious award?

You may recognize the names…

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The Good Doctor Seuss, Green Grinches, and a Lorax who Speaks for Trees

March 2nd was chosen by the National Education Association years ago to celebrate NEA’s Read Across America Day.

It’s Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and each year is another chance to celebrate a joy that goes beyond sounding out the word and improving one’s vocabulary. Teachers and college professors and school custodians and librarians and bus drivers will be reminding their students that reading is fun.

School lunch ladies will be scrambling Green Eggs and Ham. School principals will be showing kids How to Eat Fried Worms. There will be Read-a-Thons and authors talking about books that make them cry and book illustrators demonstrating their craft.

Governors will do photo ops with a Cat-in-the-Hat hat. Oh, The Places We Will Go on March 2nd. Dr. Seuss would be proud, were he alive, to be the center of such joy, I like to think. (more…)

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American Education Week: Creating Amazing Public Schools

Happy American Education Week. In honor of the week-long celebration, I was asked to focus my remarks this week on my “vision” for an amazing public school system. Oh my.

The last time I did that, I was accused of smoking something. Apparently there is a fine line between “vision” and “hallucination”. But I will repeat myself and tell you exactly what I want in my visionary, dreamy, hallucinogenic, utopian planet.

Aside from the obvious (that you would never have to go down to Staples and buy your own reams of paper because there wasn’t enough in the District budget for such exotic baubles), I would be in charge.

I’m pushy that way. In my system, classroom teachers would be in charge.

There would never be a Non-Teacher who would hand us a script to read to our students or give us a ridiculous goal (100% of your kids WILL be above average) or a ridiculous prize (and if they ARE then you get more pay) or a ridiculous punishment (and if you don’t achieve a statistical impossibility, which could only be accomplished by cheating, you get fired.)

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