Education

CHICAGO--A group of local education activists met Tuesday to figure out how to keep Chicago Public Schools from closing a Bronzeville elementary at the end of the school year and moving its students to a neighboring school.

Part of the Bronzeville Education Advocacy Movement’s strategy to keep Abbott Elementary School, 3630 S. Wells St., from being closed is to pressure certain Chicago heavyweights, including State Representatives Ken Dunkin and Ward 3 Alderman Pat Dowell, to support a recent proposal to put a moratorium on all school closings and reorganizations for a year.Read more

[This series aired on my Miami education site, teachdade.com (TD). Click HERE to view the whole series.]

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, TD would like to announce, “1000 Years in the Classroom,” a new project showcasing the insight, sincerity, frustration and wisdom of the Miami-Dade County Public School system’s most under-appreciated asset, its veteran teachers. Here’s the gist: TD intends to conduct short video interviews with veteran teachers from schools across MDCPS’s nine districts, asking them all one simple question: How do you think the district can improve? It is our belief that these “old pros” hold the answers to many of MDCPS’s problems.

We are eager to hear each educator’s unique ideas, as well as to learn the concepts that overlap from classroom to classroom. The goal is to interview a diverse group of Dade County teachers whose combined experience equals at least 1000 years. Once this is accomplished, the plan is to patch the interviews together in a documentary-style production and to present it to the School Board at one of its monthly meetings. The result, ideally, will be drastic improvements in the way our schools operate here in Dade County.Read more