I feel like a real blogger now! Sure I started this WordPress blog with my first post on July 2006 (that’s coming up on 10 years!) but it wasn’t until a few years later that I started blogging for an audience beyond my students and their parents. Blogging on my own, for my own reflection and to share what’s going on in my classroom is great and I thoroughly enjoy it. So it was so cool to be selected as a teacher leader for the WA CORELaborate group (#WATeachLead) as one of their bloggers! I feel like I’ve advanced to being a real blogger! Not to belittle the work I’ve done here and the value I get from blogging, it’s just an exciting opportunity and I’m grateful to have it.
I’m Official!
Kick-Off Event!
We had a fantastic kick-off event and the group of WA CORELaborate bloggers brainstormed some fantastic topics to blog about this year. I have some awesome ideas for a couple of series I want to do and I was thinking, wondering, how to start it all off. I decided to make my first blog entry about standards. With the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), I am hoping that the negative ed reforms of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era can be done away with, revoked, fixed, erased so that we can get back to the business of educating children. NCLB’s so called reforms have soured many people’s taste of standards and testing.
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