After attending the TURN meeting this weekend, I am back and reinvigorated. We spent a lot of time talking about successful innovation led by teachers unions across the country including Los Angeles, Boston, Westerly (RI), and Milwaukee to name a few. It is exciting to see districts that trust their teachers to allow them to implement "reform without permission." In Denver, we still have schools where teachers are judged by the posters on their walls... imagine if we allowed to focus more on actual instruction instead of the poster checklist!
Please click on the following link for a great article (Short on Power, Long on Responsibility) from Richard Ingersoll from UPenn, and has done extensive studies on teacher retention.
About Me
- Kim Ursetta, NBCT
- Denver, CO, United States
- Kim is a Kindergarten ELA-S (bilingual) Teacher at the teacher-led Mathematics and Science Leadership Academy in the Denver Public Schools. She recently served two terms as President of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. She has been teaching in Denver for 16 years, and is a National Board Certified Teacher. She earned a B.A. and B.S.Ed. from Shippensburg University of PA, and a M.A. from the University of CO, Boulder. Kim serves on the Professional Standards and Practice Committee for the National Education Association, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Board of Directors.
Gy. Sgt. Manning~ USMC
My brother- home from Iraq!