The state of education in Los Angeles today: Whose voices are being represented? Whose voices are being heard? For the majority of 2008, I was regularly blogging for the LA Times’ education blog, The Homeroom. Although I didn’t post as regularly as I’d wanted to (perhaps the challenge facing any blog contributor), I was generally [...]
We’ll see how this goes. My Homeroom post about the lockdown as well as a few colleagues’ emails are also up. I realize the lockdown issue may sound like a broken record on this blog. However, serious debriefing, insane anecdotes (which will hopefully show up on the wiki), and furious teachers suggest that Friday’s incident [...]
This is how I spent my Friday afternoon. Reflection should be up at the Homeroom whenever it gets posted. Should be a good discussion on Monday with my classes, on the positive side at least.
I’d like to dedicate my current Homeroom post to my nemesis, Mark. A recent email he sent out begins: dear educators this is a call to those who have been in the trenches and have put their all into a system that refuses to do the same for our students.
I don’t feel at liberty to really go much further than what I’ve written over at the Homeroom, re: being principal-less at the moment. A while back, Octavio mentioned that there is a story about the changes that took place over the course of a year at Manual. I think that this is a story [...]
C’mon people. I’m in South Los Angeles here. Our school’s Internet moves at just less than a creep. I can’t get a working ethernet cord, log on to social networking sites, youtube, etc. You’ve heard me whine about it before. Obviously most of my students aren’t accessing the Internet at home. Our isle of misfit [...]
If you’re reading this site for the first time, it’s likely due to the new linkage from the LA Times Homeroom blog (if you’re not, go check out my other digital home, the Homeroom – now with beautiful picture and bio of yours truly). Here you’ll find more education discussion as well as related projects [...]
As I alluded to earlier, I ended up writing about “The Speech” at the Homeroom. Though it’s short, that post is my attempt to start moving the direction of my content there toward a more critical look at the whats and whys. We’ll see where things start heading.
As The American Crawl gathers more and more dust, I’d like to humbly throw out the fact that I’m now blogging for the LA Times education blog (at least occasionally). I think I’ll eventually have a bio and/or fancy picture posted there, but for now a single post is all that suggests I exist over [...]