Blue Serials (1/17/16)

January 16, 2016June 4, 2023 ~ Blue Cereal

I Read The News Today, Oh Boy…

In a state where it’s always a tough time to be a public school teacher, we’re seeing new lows in state revenue, intellectual honesty, and warm fuzzies towards public ed. It matters, and many of the strongest edu-bloggers and reporters in the state are writing and analyzing and challenging and inspiring all over this mess. You should totally go read them (start here or here if you’re not sure where to begin).

But this weekend, in this weekly wrap-up, we’re not worrying about all that – not right this moment. We’re thinking ’bout something else for a bit – something other than news.

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This is easily my favorite Blues Brothers tribute video filmed on Greenwood that also features Weird Al alongside Tulsa’s own Hanson shut-up-I-like-them.

Stuff You Shouldn’t Miss From This Past Week…

Learning to Listen – Jennifer Williams, aka JennWillTeach, shares a week-long series of strategies for helping kids worry less about grades and more about – get this – learning and appreciating literature and music and stuff – and they didn’t even have to use their ESA Vouchers to go to a ‘good school’! I love everything about this approach, and I don’t even teach English. You will, too. Love Jenn’s approach on the Twitters at @jennwillteach. #oklaed

Keeping People At The Center – Kris Giere of Involuntary Verbosity puts I Corinthians 13 back on his stairs (metaphorically enough). “What if the point of love is not the emotion itself but the people… the missing connection between us and the best versions of ourselves?” If you don’t love your kids, folks – you’re doing it wrong. Love Kris on the Twitters at @KrisGiere.

Complicated: What Westerns Mean to Me #Western106 – Maha Bali, on Reflecting Allowed, responds to a… it appears there was a… You know what? Never mind why she wrote this. I was entranced. On Western movies and Country music, colonialism and being ‘the other’. And Country music. I wonder if she’ll be my friend? Be entranced by Bali on the Twitters at @Bali_Maha, and wear your boots.

The Art of War, The Art of Judgment – Dan Tricarico, aka The Zen Teacher, shares an experience of which he’s not particularly proud. I don’t know about you, but I often find those much more encouraging than the ones where everything goes the way you’d hoped. He also underestimates how well he handles a situation in which I’d be… less Zen than he. Perhaps I should change my blog title to ‘The Perpetually Spittling Rage Teacher’ – but would that even sell? Follow Dan on the Twitters at @TheZenTeacher.

Excuses, Excuses – L.Z. Marie on LZMarieAuthor.com takes on writers’ excuses for not, well… writing. Thing is, they sound uncomfortably like the excuses my students use, and you use, and, um… I use… to avoid just about anything I know I’ll feel better if I do, but don’t. Plus, she’s just snarky enough to make you like being abused by her. More, L.Z. – scold me harder. Benefit from L.Z.’s abuse on the Twitters at @LZMarieAuthor.

Questions for Educator Consideration – John Bennett, on Considerations (no relation to Rep. John Bennett of the Oklahoma legislature) responds to Seth Godin’s “Ten Questions For Work That Matters.” I love how comfortably Bennett prompts us to think through the important things again – defenses down, minds clear, no need for pithy wordplay or clever snark. I suspect my blood pressure would go down if I worked across the hall from him. Follow Bennett on the Twitters at @jcbjr. (Honorary #oklaed)

Finally, From Just Outside the Edu-Blogs…

A Woman Called Bitter – Maralee Bradley, Her View From Home. “A couple weeks ago I listened to a sermon about Ruth. As part of the backstory the pastor talked about Naomi’s transition to the name Mara and what a miserable name that would be to have. That part of the sermon felt a little personal to me… If you look for the meaning of my name, it is the same – bitter.” This one’s not about the classroom or edu-policy or child development. But read it – I’m positive there’s a reason I couldn’t let it go until I included it here. Follow Bradely on Twitter at @amusingmaralee or on her own blog, A Musing Maralee: Welcome To My Circus.

Go be amazing this week. No weariness, no hesitation, no rational thoughts of giving up and moving on. We are fools whether or not we dance – so we might as well dance.

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Dance like there’s nobody watching, babe.

Dear Newsletter Subscribers…

January 15, 2016June 4, 2023 ~ Blue Cereal

I’m absolutely positive that many of you who follow this blog and website primarily through the email version of various posts have been confused – nay, traumatized – by the relatively low production of witty, insightful edu-commentary recently.

Sure, you could simply come visit the site to see what’s going on, but sometimes it’s simply too terrifying to open that door and find out why the dramatic music is swelling in the background. Better to remain in denial and a touch of sadness tinged with fear and the taste of anticipated loss in your mouth like unbrushed teeth.

My focus recently has been on #OKElections16 – Issues Summaries and Candidate Profiles as we move towards elections in the state of Oklahoma this year. It’s less glorious, and – just between you and me – much less fun, but others are doing their parts faithfully, and I felt I must try to do mine.

If you’re curious what’s together so far, you should visit. Otherwise, thank you for your patience. I’ll still be spouting my pithy rhetoric from time to time, and come December 2016, who knows what backlogged brilliance might spew forth? I’m giddy just thinking about it.

Thanks for subscribing, and reading, and pretending to care. We have a thing, you and I.

–Blue

May I Please See?

January 15, 2016June 4, 2023 ~ Blue Cereal ~ 1 Comment

Teachers can be a stubborn lot.

To be fair, in this profession, we kinda have to be. Trying to steer 34 teenagers at a time into meaningful learning while trapped in a concrete box an hour at a time against their will requires, well… a certain amount of stubbornness. Sometimes it works, other times – not so much.

But you try again the next hour. You come back the next day and adjust. Refusing to give in is a job requirement.

You get tired of cautious price-checking as you shop for groceries, or putting on your best face while you limit how many back-to-school clothes can come from Target before going back to the… usual places. Your friends don’t mean any harm when they share their vacation stories or invite you to that restaurant they chose to ‘accommodate your budget,’ but – SERIOUSLY? They don’t even have a kids’ menu there!

It takes stubbornness to love your chosen path anyway. To decide it matters on those many days you DON’T have motivational breakthrough with little Bobo and his tearful thanks for all you do.

If you stay in this profession long, you start to notice that every year or two the BIG-FIXIT-PLAN-THAT-WILL-SAVE-US-ALL comes to your district and dominates every faculty meeting and required PD day. Touting examples from schools nothing like yours in communities your kids will never live in, we slap this year’s program on top of the past dozen we’ll now ignore but never acknowledge enough to remove.

It takes a rather bullheaded individual to learn how to either surf those waves or let them wash over you without pulling you under. It takes a stubborn soul to resist bitterness towards those genuinely trying to help or apathy towards legitimate personal and professional improvement.

So, yeah – we’re a difficult bunch.

It’s a given in Oklahoma that nothing done at the capital is intended to help your kids do or learn anything meaningful. We don’t all burden ourselves with trying to keep up with the jumble of agendas, vendettas, naïve intentions, or other factors in play. Some of us follow a few bills and could name several ‘good’ and ‘bad’ legis up there, while others choose to tune it out and simply do our best – knowing that sophistry and power always have and always will seek to undercut and disparage us. Our kids are just collateral damage in battles that have little to do with education, ‘standards,’ or preparation for a rich, meaningful life.

Before I even read the paper or the latest press releases from OKC, I’ve assumed the position – defensive, cynical, and a bit pissed off. Because I know people I care about are about to take it again – hard and without dinner.

It’s become my new normal. I don’t blame others for trying not to get wrapped up in it – although it’s like pretending you don’t have cancer, or that your spouse isn’t fooling around when it’s obvious to everyone else. Ignoring it rarely fixes it; “optimism” is a poor substitute for responsibility.

So yeah – showing up every day and trying to make a difference takes some stubbornness. Working the political process takes a healthy dose of mule-headed optimism. Pretending we can win – professionally, politically, personally – it all takes some pretty iffy grit.

In short, teachers are a pain in the ass. Big surprise.

But I’m going into 2016 with an open mind. It’s a new year, a new legislative session, and a new round of draconian budget cuts. Why not new ideologies and understandings as well? Maybe I’m wrong about some things. Maybe we’re ALL wrong about any NUMBER of contentious issues.

I’m ready and willing to learn. Eyes open. Please… show me. I know you think you’ve said it all before, explained it all already – but so have we. Let’s try just once more? For the children?

May I please see examples of students who were ‘trapped’ in failing schools, unable to pursue other options on their own, but received vouchers and flourished? Kids who weren’t going to private schools already? It would be great to have a few anecdotal examples for that ‘personal’ connection, and then maybe some numbers on how that’s worked out in similar states or communities to our own.

If it’s not too much trouble.

Oh, and bonus points for actual low-income students of color. Your rhetoric constantly hints they’re the primary beneficiaries, but you never quite come out and actually say so…

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While we’re on school choice, may I please see some examples of public schools who are so very thankful for the implementation of vouchers? I know we’ve been pretty up in arms about our funds being cut as state and federal requirements continue to grow, but the rhetoric from the right is that public schools will benefit greatly from fewer students and less money, because… percentage-numbers-choice, and America-freedom-eagle-truth.

I’m ready to sincerely consider your examples, and their stories. Seriously.

Of course it’s not just taking away resources that improves schools – it’s public shaming. We’ve been fighting one another for years now over this annual A-F state report card thing. I’ll admit this – teachers do get touchy about accountability. We don’t like it when you accuse our kids of being stupid, and we don’t like it when you suggest we’re lazy and incompetent.

It becomes a bit of a vicious cycle – you keep cutting and regulating us out of the ability to do anything useful, and when we have trouble accomplishing all we’re trying to, you feel like the few resources you funnel our way are being wasted.

But both the OKSDE website and the annual rhetoric from our State Legislature is clear – schools landing on the low end of that A-F list will receive increased support – training – mentoring – guidance – resources – from the state, yes? There’s a reference to using ‘spurs’ on us I’m not crazy about, but other than that…

It’s not to shame anyone, or to further stereotype the most marginalized, vulnerable, and disenfranchised segments of our state’s population – it’s to identify need, and inform parents who can’t otherwise possibly figure out if their child is going to a good school or not.

I’m ready to focus more on the ways the state tries to meet the needs of underperformers, but I’ve been too caught up in my own frustration to pay attention to that part. May I please have some examples of schools you’ve turned around through careful diagnoses and tough love? Some stats fitting their stories into a larger state context would be helpful as well, thanks.

Finally – and I appreciate your patience, I know I’m putting a lot on your plate here – could you explain this ‘trickle down’ thing in the state economy again? I’ve been a bit close-minded in my recent frustration, and I’m having trouble with the details.

As oil prices fall, earthquakes increase, and the national economy recovers, we fight against federal dollars because Obama-gay-terror-federalism, and Hitler-slavery, right? (And you thought I didn’t listen!) You keep cutting taxes on the top sliver of wealthiest citizens and businesses in Oklahoma because we cannot tax ourselves into prosperity – so if we eliminate state revenue altogether… we’re rich?

That’s where I’m confused.

I know there’s a balance of sorts, and that high enough tax rates kill growth. But may I please see examples of how cutting the obligations of the most prosperous has led to more jobs, more state revenue, more services, more prosperity – in OUR state, recently?

Someone – the Governor, maybe? – was trying to convince me recently that our budgetary woes are primarily the result of falling oil prices or ISIS or something. I’d like you to know I jumped to your defense! If there’s one thing you’ve been consistent about over the years, it’s that you’re not interested in excuses when the results aren’t what you’ve mandated. You believe in accountability! Taking responsibility! Making the touch choices so the important numbers go higher!

I respect you too much to pretend you don’t have absolute and total control over what happens to the state and every numeric result therein. Poor outcomes means you’re either lazy or poorly trained, and how insulting would it be to hear THAT repeatedly every time you can’t work miracles?

Besides, if the State Legislature has zero influence on the economy, why do we even bother having you? You could be out in the schools, showing us again how to do the learning gooder instead. You should have a talk with that Governor. She doesn’t understand how this stuff works – not the way you do.

Thank you so much for your patience with us! We’ll try to be more open-minded and reasonable, and I look forward to your explanations and examples. Don’t be afraid to use small words and clear visuals. I’m a teacher, after all, and you know better than anyone what THAT means.

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The Remaking of Lawrence Public Schools (Guest Blogger – Amy Berard)

January 11, 2016June 4, 2023 ~ Blue Cereal

Amy Berard is a graduate of Lawrence Public Schools, and taught there during the first three years of receivership.She still lives in the community, but now teaches in the nearby district of Lynn.

Berard first made national #edreform waves when she did a guest post for Edushyster titled “I Am Not Tom Brady.” She has since been featured in Education Week, the Washington Post, and on Diane Ravitch’s legendary edu-blog.

Perhaps most importantly, she’s a proud #11FF and a Blue Cereal favorite.

January gym members aren’t the only ones with their eyes on reform.

Since the Commonwealth of Massachusetts took over Lawrence Public Schools in 2012, the district has been under the watchful eye of not only Massachusetts, but also the nation. In 2014, both U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and AFT President, Randi Weingarten, paid a visit to Lawrence schools. In February of 2015, Time Union reported that Andrew Cuomo is using Lawrence as a model for education reform in New York.

This state receivership is certainly not short on attention or staff. This receivership is steered by a state-appointed receiver, a chief operating officer, a chief of staff, a deputy superintendent, an assistant superintendent, and a special assistant to the superintendent. During the first year of the recievership, more than $6 million was spent on salary increases at central office level. The chief of staff position was listed as having a salary of $115,000 in 2012, substantially more than that of the Lawrence mayor’s chief of staff, whose current salary is a mere $68,000. Despite the fact that these receivership positions are paid with public funds, it is unclear what many salaries of these positions are currently.

Lawrence, MA, is a city 30 miles northwest of Boston. It consists of 7 square miles with a population of approximately 77,000 people. Average household income is roughly $31,000 annually. 63% of students are economically disadvantaged. Over 30% of residents do not have a high school diploma. English is not the primary language of 70.4% of Lawrence students and 31% of students are English Language Learners.

The leadership of Lawrence’s schools and that of its city government share a history of instability, corruption, and public dissatisfaction. In 1998, District Superintendent James Scully was fired due to accusations of misuse of funds. In 2012, one of Scully’s successors – Wilfredo Laboy – was sentenced to jail for embezzlement. In the same year, the city’s mayor – William Lantigua – was under FBI investigation for misuse of public funds, a continuation of almost constant investigations into his behavior since his election in 2008.

There have been 2 recall petitions against the current mayor, Dan Rivera. In fact, every Lawrence mayor for approximately the last 15 years has been the subject of a recall petition.

Since the inception of the Lawrence receivership, one only has to visit the Massachusetts Department of Education website to see the effects the receivership has had on the staff and students.

The Valley Patriot reported, “Riley was hired by Education Commissioner {Mitchell Chester} with no experience in turning around a failing school system. He was given a three and a half year contract, at $198,000 per year with benefits and reimbursements to “turn around” the school district, yet there is no legal definition or policy outlining what specific goals must be met to for the schools to be considered “turned around.”

Prior to Lawrence, Riley had never served as a superintendent. His receivership has been marked by an increase in the hiring of inexperienced administrators and inexperienced teachers – many of whom had previous ties to Riley and came from areas outside of Lawrence and its surrounding Merrimack Valley area. These principals have been given wide autonomy to make decisions for their building and staff, which may be fine for an experienced school leader but potentially disastrous for the many with little or no prior experience in such positions.

The percentage of highly qualified teachers teaching core academic subjects in Lawrence went from 95.4% in 2012 to 87% in 2014. At the state level, that number went from 97.8% in 2012 to 95.4% in 2015. The loss has not been shared equally by all Lawrence schools. Guilmette Middle School, a Level 3 school among the lowest 20% of schools in the state, went from having 96.8% of core academic subjects taught by highly qualified teachers in 2012 to only 55.8% in 2014.

Given Receivership Riley’s past with Teach for America, it is perhaps not surprising that Lawrence teachers are becoming not only less qualified, but less experienced. Lawrence teachers under the age of 26 went from 6% in 2012 to 14% in 2015. The state average for teachers under the age of 26 went from 5% in 2012 to 6% in 2015. At Spark Academy, a Level 4 school among the lowest achieving and least improving schools in the state, 37% of teachers are under the age of 26.

The teacher retention rate in Lawrence Public Schools is indirectly proportionate to each year Receiver Riley is at the helm. For every year Riley has been in charge, the district retains less and less teachers. While the state average retention rate dipped slightly from 90.3% in 2012 to 89.9% in 2014, Lawrence’s teacher retention went from 81.6% in 2012 to 68% in 2014. International High School’s 2014 retention rate was 54%. The Business Management & Finance High School’s rate was 41.7%. The High School Learning Center managed 54.2% and Community Day Arlington a weak 59.1%.

Take a moment to imagine what it would be like for an academically struggling urban child to see an ever-growing sea of unfamiliar faces at their school year after year. Now imagine what it would be like for a child who speaks limited English or a student with a disability. What messages does this send to them?

Often urban students come to school for a sense of stability, structure, and community. With a declining teacher retention rate, Lawrence schools feel less and less like home for many students. A low teacher retention rate prevents teachers from becoming familiar to each other, the curriculum, the students, and the students’ families. Parents are not as likely to participate in school events when they have not developed a relationship with the school community.

The implication is that those most in contact with these students on a daily basis are only there temporarily.

Lawrence has very few teachers living in Lawrence teaching in Lawrence. Ironically, many qualified faculty members who actually live in the community have been let go with no more explanation than that they’re “not a good fit” – a phrase many will recognize as common reformer code for “asking too many questions” or “challenging too many decisions which impact their kids.”

Judging from the annually decreasing retention rate, few teachers seem to be “a good fit” for the new Leadership Cabinet of which Receivership Riley is quite proud. Members are chosen by administrators, leaving non-favored teachers without a means to voice concerns without professional retaliation.

This past summer, the Massachusetts Board of Education held a special meeting with Riley because they received a number of complaints from teachers about the teacher evaluation process being unfair. In some cases, evaluations did not occur at all. Since pay increases at a certain level are tied to performance evaluations, this is particularly problematic.

In 2012, Lawrence was labeled chronically underperforming. In 2015, while Lawrence has seen some growth, it is still labeled chronically underperforming. While some schools are held up as evidence the receivership is working, many others have shown little or no improvement. A few have become worse.

Although initially a three-year plan, the receivership has been extended another three years. Let’s hope those three years bring with them more stability for students and teachers – as well as a strong plan for transitioning back to local control.

You can follow Amy Berard on Twitter at @1amyberard.

Blue Serials (1/10/16)

January 9, 2016June 4, 2023 ~ Blue Cereal ~ 2 Comments

Happy New Y-

Yeah, I’m sick of hearing it, too. Let’s just move on.

My time and energy outside of my darlings in my actual classroom have been largely devoted to #OKElections16, and trying to create a resource for those ready to get serious about changing a few things in this state. I’ll spare you my whining, but I confess it’s not nearly as much fun as my typical carrying on. I am, however, committed to do this until November 2016 – not for me, of course… but for THE CHILDREN!

Fortunately for all of us, there’s SO MUCH GREAT EDU-BLOGGING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! Probably more than you can keep up with on your own, and many by folks MUCH cooler than me.

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Here are a few you absolutely shouldn’t miss from the past week or so…

My Daughter Is Not A Widget – Steven Singer on gadflyonthewallblog was not impressed by a recent scolding of public schools by the CEO of ExxonMobil. Singer rejects the suggestion that our children are goods produced only for consumption by a competitive marketplace and the convenience of the powers-that-be. In fact, he takes it rather personally, in one of the best bursts of poignant edu-outrage I’ve ever read. Be poignant and/or outraged with @stevensinger3 on the Twittering.

My Word for 2016 – Rob Miller on A View From the Edge just had to respond to a challenge about ‘one word’ for the coming year. The result contains great perspective, intentional hope, and a mindset many of us could stand to emulate a bit, but don’t tell him I said so – we don’t want to encourage any more positivity than absolutely necessary. Follow @edgeblogger on the Twitters, or you suck. #oklaed

#OneWord: Purpose – Rick Cobb on OKEducationTruths responds to the same challenge with a slightly different approach. I’ll warn you in advance, though, that it’s also pretty positive and inspiring and determined and such, so… be prepared. Follow @OkEducation on the Twitterings, or you double dog suck. #oklaed

Students, Not Standards: Calling for Solidarity in 2016 – P.L. Thomas on The Becoming Radical calls us to help students learn themselves, to find ways to help them fall in love with reading even if it’s different than our reading, and to recommit ourselves to teaching students, not standards. Which, come to think of it, is the title of the piece – so that worked out. Follow @plthomasEdD on the Twitters and stretch your paradigms a bit.

Simple Sabotage (h/t CIA) – Peter Greene at Curmudgucation looks at the recently declassified CIA handbook on sabotage and discovers a guidebook to most #edreform and #eduslation. Who knew? Oh, that’s right – all of US did, but no one wants to believe us that THEY’RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE! Of course you already follow @palan57 on the Twitters, yes?

Finally, Rob Miller of A View From The Edge issued an #OklaEd blogging challenge recently with the theme of Hope and Despair as we enter 2016.

I haven’t responded myself as of yet, but holy hotkeys – those who have! There’s simply TOO much talent in this state – I feel like a match in the sun warehouse. If I missed anyone’s response to the challenge, let me know – it’s not intentional.

Despair and Hope in Education – Scott Haselwood, aka @TeachFromHere, on his fancy new saucy blog’n’web TeachingFromHere. This one might be my favorite. #oklaed

Hope/Despair Challenge – Jennifer Williams, aka @JennWillTeach, on JennWillTeach. Willliams is a kindred spirit, Charter #11FF, and kinda hot when she’s in a snit. I was curious what she’d choose for ‘Hope’. #oklaed

Reason for Despair. But Even Bigger Reasons for Hope. – Meghan Loyd, aka @meghanloyd, on For The Love. Loyd is more appreciated every day, and makes me believe in #unicorns and #rainbows sometimes. I was curious what she’d write about for ‘Despair’. #oklaed

2016: A Real Opportunity – Rick Cobb, aka @OKEducation, on OKEducationTruths. Cobb doesn’t always share my turbid angst, but he’s not far off here – until the ‘Hope’ part, I mean. I’m glad there’s a ‘Hope’ part. #oklaed

Rethinking D-E-S-P-A-I-R – Mindy Dennison, aka @MrsDSings, on This Teacher Sings. Dennison uses words all pretty enough, but then adds pictures and stuff – is that even allowed? #oklaed

#OklaEd Teachers: Reasons for Hope, Reasons for Despair in 2016 – Mrs. Waters, aka @watersenglish, on MrsWatersEnglish. “{O}ur leaders… enact legislation and policies that end up damaging the most vulnerable students. On top of that, these leaders project their own flaws onto teachers by accusing them of not caring when we ask for more money or better working conditions.” When you get Mrs. Waters in that kind of lather, you’ve really gone and done the doin’ – she’s normally unflappable! #oklaed

Hope and Despair – John Thompson, aka @DrJohnThompson, guest-blogs on A View From The Edge. Thompson is a veteran educator and writer and sometimes intimidates me a bit, although I’m pretty sure that’s not what he’s going for. He’s just so… legit. #oklaed

Burritos, Boxes, and Buckets – A Discussion of Hope and Despair – You didn’t think we’d let Miller issue the challenge without addressing it himself, did you? OK, he did it without prompting, but I like to pretend I somehow forced the issue. Makes me feel influential and a bit tough-love-ish. #oklaed

I don’t hide my annoyances or despair. If you’ve been reading this blog at all in the past year, you don’t have to guess what puts me over the edge. But I like this challenge because it requires hope as well – intentional, chosen, pursued hope.

Pursue hope this week. As you do, keep in mind – AND I MEAN THIS WITH MANY MEANING MEANS – you’re the hope for many of them. Some know it, most don’t, and it means many different things for many different kids.

But you’re hope for them. Sometimes the only hope. Don’t $#%& it up.

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