Preserving Education, Opportunity, and the American Dream in Michigan
Michigan Department of Education Superintendent Brian Whiston has challenged our state to become a Top 10 Education state in 10 years, but at the rate we are going, we’re headed right to the bottom. The Great Lake State is on track to becoming a state better defined by its continual failure of its students and teachers. Read more here. #teacherleadership #careerreadiness #collegereadiness #TopTeninTen #retention #policy
Michigan's Testing Culture Fails Students
Right now, Michigan high school students are in the middle of taking our annual state testing, the Michigan Merit Exam (MME). For 11th graders this includes the SAT, WorkKeys (a job-skills test), and the MSTEP test (the state's social studies and science test). For our students, the timing couldn’t have been worse. Read more here in the Detroit Free Press. #teaching #policy #TopTeninTen
A Math Teacher Goes to the Captiol...And Why You Need To Do The Same
If you had asked me six months ago if I would be requesting meetings with legislators and sharing my experiences as an educator with them, I would have laughed at you. But that is exactly what I did this month and will be doing in the future. If you are an educator you need to do this too. Let me tell you how. Read more here. #teacherleadership #NBCT #TopTeninTen #policy
