In what ways do teachers lead in online spaces?

Paul Allison shared a circle with you.

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.

I'd love for Krystal to get responses to this piece. Where might she go next in this inquiry? What's her question, form, next step in this?

I'm wondering how we could do themed events like this one on Google+ Search for: #fallfriday - which is similar to this mission: http://youthvoices.net/node/25516 , but more open to many interpretations and tools.