accountability

  • The New Tests

    Everything you have ever wanted, is on the other side of fear. – George Addair ‘The good teachers are starting to leave’ by Valerie Strauss (The Washington Post, February 27, 2015) Strauss, a reporter and a former teacher, posts a letter that a high school English teacher wrote to the incoming state superintendent in Georgia. Susan…

  • Risk and Reward

    “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.” – Steve Jobs, in his 2005 Stanford University graduation speech, about being fired from Apple High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her “ineffective” by Valerie Strauss (Washington Post, October 31, 2014) A New York City educator with an impeccable…