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Occupy your classroom « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views

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  • you're reading... Education in the Media, Leadership and Activism, Philosophical Meanderings Occupy your classroom Posted by Chad Sansing ⋅ October 4, 2011 ⋅ 26 Comments Filed Under  #occupy, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Edreform, NCLB, Standardized testing, Teacher preparation DSC05584 by Berkeley Unified School District Michelle McNeil, reporting on ESEA Flexibility, September 28th, 2011: To be freed from [NCLB's 100% proficiency] 2014 deadline, and to have more flexibility in using Title I money, states will have to agree to do three main things. They will have to adopt college- and career-ready standards and tie state tests to them…. Arne Duncan speaking at the Education Sector Forum, September 30th, 2011: “Paper-and-pencil licensure tests for teachers are not rigorous, meaningful, or useful….” There exists a naked ambition amongst the networked
  • There exists a naked ambition amongst the networked and privileged #edreformers to measure learning by test scores, to measure teachers by test scores, to measure teacher preparation programs by test scores, and to use the wealth of billionaires to insure that all media-covered and -sponsored conversations about the purpose of public education come back to test scores
  • If you would occupy your statehouse to keep your job, pay, and benefits, please also consider occupying your classroom. Give your students at least a day a week to follow their passions. Get rid of your furniture. Help kids borrow, bring, or build their own. Get rid of your textbooks. Or redact them. Ask kids to make sense of the world as it happens across media and technologies. Build communities instead of reinforcing expectations.
  • Christina Cantrill on 13 Nov 11
     
    (links to Dar Williams ... teenagers their whole job is to have their minds blown)
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An amendment is worth 50 waivers « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views

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  • The 28th Amendment Section 1. The right of children in the United States to a safe and chosen education shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State or by any locality on account of geographic location, teacher credentialing, or test scores. Section 2. The right of children in the United States to customized curricula shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State or by any locality on account of staffing, scheduling, or public school contract, nor by budget when the expense to a public school of a child’s curriculum is less than the national average per pupil allocation. Section 3. The right of children in the United States to substitute evidence of learning outside public school property and hours for a public school’s assessment, promotion, or graduation criteria shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State or by any locality. Section 4. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
Christina Cantrill

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  • Christina Cantrill on 24 Sep 11
     
    Chad Sansing Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice at Classroots.org and CoopCatalyst.
  • Christina Cantrill on 24 Sep 11
     
    Chad Sansing has written 61 posts for Cooperative Catalyst
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Two ways we separate children & why we should care « Cooperative Catalyst - 1 views

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  • #occupy edu, Edreform, Educational transformation, Occupy Education, School scheduling, School staffing, Standardized testing
  • However, differentiation that involves students requires more of us than offering a choice between teacher-designed pieces of work. Differentiation that involves students requires more of us than diagnosing a student’s weakness and prescribing the appropriate intervention. Differentiation that involves students requires students’ voices and efforts to make meaning of learning – it is not a process of finding the best way for a student to memorize or repeat what we adults consider to be important.
  • When we differentiate by what we think a kid can do – instead of through what a kid wants to do
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  • Why aren’t we building spaces that encourage writers to write across the curricula? That inspire mathematicians to analyze the maths of communication? The enable artists to create non-print products in response to their learning about every subject?
  • It’s not that we shouldn’t assess our kids’ learning. It’s not that schools schools become the land of do as you please. It is this: We should find out what our children have to teach us about learning, community, and excellent work of lasting value by seeing how much meaning they can make of the world together and with our help. We should keep track of that work at the local level to make sure our schools are the land of learn and help and solve as you please.
Christina Cantrill

#occupyedu: challenge schools to change « Cooperative Catalyst - 1 views

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  • Filed Under  #occupyedu, Edreform, Educational transformtion, Occupy Education
  • We cannot re-imagine or recapture schools without the stakeholders they serve
  • It’s about creating a new public education system that recognizes and values a broader definition of learning than that accounted for by tests
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  • It’s about recognizing and valuing a broader community of children than those who benefit from the tests
  • It’s about fostering sustainable communities of learners and problem-solvers that include all children in personally meaningful work of lasting worth and joy to themselves and our society
  • We’ve been promised relief that is not relief
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Suffocating in information « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views

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  • I argue that our kids don’t have information processing problems or skills deficits – what they have is an inability to articulate how it is they live and learn because we prohibit the development of such a vocabulary at school to preserve adult control and custodianship of privilege and knowledge.
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  • Christina Cantrill on 04 Dec 11
     
    Mary Beth in Philly -- went down to occupy and hand out fliers about occupy education; Jose "B" interested in Youth Voices and his students (forget what); Paul -- "Elementary One-Room Schoolhouse" in Youth Voices; JLV, math coach and math teacher in NYC; Occupy the Classroom; Chad Sansing -- at his school talking about how to affect change in our classrooms; trying to make it a more student led place; working with Mary Beth and others to create a companion site called Occupy Edu; Paul: when stuff like Occupy Wall Street comes up, as a teacher I want to highlight what is happening; but how to do that without making it teacher centric ... interesting conversations follows; Sheri Edwards ... obligations to bring up Wall Street ... teaching 6, 7, 8th grades and do group blogging ... Paul asked about difficulties at her school; being student centered is not an easy task given the different things that are going on there; David Loitz working from the democratic something something, teaching pre-school, moderating the occupy edu blog. JLV thinking education as a big monster and thinking about Occupy and what to learn to support education as a whole and how we can build new arms (more about inclusion and not exclusion) ... lots of powerful work happening ... Chris has an example of a student posting and lots of different people have identified with movement ... Mary Beth everything I see I see through the lens of education ("the disease I have") ...how everything was organized ... thinking about how we as teachers have these things happening to us, why can't we also self-organized ... we have a core thing we agree on ... amazing to see the microcosm of a community grown outside city hall. David studying small communities and amazing to see this happening ... a shift in our society finally taking what is real online and bring that idea back into face to face connections ... here I have something to give, who else does, let's put them together and make something better ...
  • Christina Cantrill on 05 Dec 11
     
    Important for students to hear their own voices. really important for teachers to hear their own voices along with parents too but is so essential for change ... Chad asked about Occupy the Classroom ... how has it come to where it is and where is it ... who is involved and how is it supporting the capturing of voice and amplifying ... where is it in promoting conversations about the bedrock conversations about schooling ... JLV talked about the blog post that helped to set the tone ... it tends to have a Freire style with a focus on pedagogy ... what is it that will change the conversation from anti-this to pro-that ... once that became the conversation then it went crazy from there ... various places and people picked it up ... Occupy Edu paralleling the efforts is excellent ... I know of see my role under this hashtag what can we do now ... from small to large ... will encourage cross-posting and get them to help each other some more. Cataloging what we can learn, as educators, from the Occupy movement. Lets list them. Paul talks about the year he worked in a new school and everything was decided by consensus and ended up getting rid of lots of things and restarted the school ... wondering if where I am now if that would be more possible. I realize I don't even know how decision are made as a teacher, let alone the teachers. ... Chris says he doesn' tthink we teach studnets to do this -- instead it's about arguing, win debates, spot fallacies ... but speaking for myself I don't think I do a good enough job teaching them to come to consensus. Dave would second it and also point out that other schools do this and reaching out to folks who are doing this already ... not seeing ourselves in silos. That is something we can learn ... we don't need to fight about all the things that are different that if we can find that core we have a lot to teach each other ... Jose came into LAUSD came into a school that was about consensus ... unfortunately its been downhill since
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