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Open Letter to Jersey Jazzman

Dear Jersey Jazzman, Bravo. You’ve done an excellent job in your piece “Chartery Snake Oil” twisting the words of this piece by James Aycock. In doing so you’ve demeaned a hard working educator and a...

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Fear: The Enemy of Common Core Solutions

Ashley is smart as a whip but often doubts her own abilities. When she first encounters a new math concept she always believes it’s going to be hard and fears attempting it. But with a little help she...

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Data Doesn’t Lie: TN Charters Are The Real Deal

I’m proud to teach high school math at The Soulsville Charter School. Every day I come to work confident that my students are receiving the best education that I and my colleagues can give them. I see...

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Just the Facts: Charter High School Performance in Memphis

My school has a strong data driven culture. We use data not just to identify grade level or class wide trends, but trends with individual students. Because it’s not enough for me to know that the...

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Tennessee Education’s Perception Problem

This article ran on The Educators Room on July 9th, 2014: My 10th grade girls are all into HUGE purses, the size of backpacks. They can be very distracting as the girls rustle through the bag’s...

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Four Little Tips to Transform Your Classroom

This post was featured on Classroom Chronicle on Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 Another school year is almost upon us! Along with content, systems and management planning, thinking strategically about how...

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A Teaching Profession for My Generation

This post originally appeared in the Commercial Appeal on Sunday, August 3rd 2014. I have a confession: Halfway through my second year of teaching, I was questioning whether teaching was really the...

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Making the Grade: 2014 Memphis Charter High School Performance

The 2014 school-level TVAAS data has been out for a few weeks now and since we did an analysis earlier this summer on local charter performance using 2013 data, I thought it only appropriate that I run...

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Rethinking How We use Teacher Evaluations

Yesterday a post of mine on the need to rethink how we use teacher evaluations was published on a website titled The Educators Room. I’ve been struggling lately with the concept of teacher evaluations;...

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TN Teacher Voices: New Education Standards Empower Tennessee Kids

Today marks the first day of a new project I’m working on – the promotion of teacher voices not just here in Memphis, but across Tennessee. As always, I’m searching for teacher voice stories that are...

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