We must reject the ideology of the "achievement gap" that absolves adults of their responsibility and implies student culpability in continued under-performance. The student achievement gap is merely the effect of a much larger and more debilitating chasm: The Educator Achievement Gap. We must erase the distance between the type of teachers we are, and the type of teachers they need us to be.
posted by Kilian Betlach at 3:48 PM
For six years, I taught reading and writing to ELL and SpEd students. I stumbled through the job of Athletic Director and continuously hired myself as a basketball coach. I served as union rep and was classified as a TFA Almuni. I earned a Masters in Educational Leadership & Administration, producing a collaborative thesis through a haze of distraction. The writings on this site garnered a certain amount of praise, as well as the ire of District leadership. I am no longer a teacher.
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Congratulations! This blog definitely deserves the ranking. I've passed the link on to many too, and found a lot of inspiration on these pages, and lots of antidotes to self-pity and whining.
Meanwhile, I'm eagerly waiting for a more recent writing sample from the student you introduced in September with the quote "I tenk the es net god to go in the dark. I cot get hor en yu ren gen the en mi opor non of os to get or. vi car cut hat os en the dark en mor es uy pas the estuits."
How's he doing?
H.
BTW, that list was alphabetical, for all you know you were number one.
Clearly not number in reading comprehension, though.
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