One of the biggest complaints I have encountered visiting classrooms around NYC is about the scripted curricula of EngageNY.  Teachers feel they are being forced to follow scripts that don’t meet the needs of their students or match their teaching style.  Depending on the level of control and surveillance in the school, some teachers have […]

In the past few days, several opportunities have come out for the public to let Mayor-elect deBlasio know what matters most to NYers. http://www.classsizematters.org/what-you-can-do/urge-mayor-elect-de-blasio-to-involve-public-in-selecting-new-chancellor/ Is a site to sign a petition to have the public weigh in on the next school chancellor.   (Let’s insist on not only someone from the field of education, but someone […]

I look forward to a great dialogue around issues in education, especially those questioning educators as experts in their own field. I have posted some great pictures in the photo gallery of some of the excellent work I am seeing in classroom around NYC.    I highlight what is the evidence of good pedagogy in […]