Category: Weekly Updates

Charter schools have been in the news quite a bit in the past year, especially here in Atlanta: the unfunded pension litigation involving APS and all Atlanta start-up charter schools, APS board candidates being asked their views on charter schools, the constitutional amendment passed last fall to create a state commission in Georgia that could…

In lieu of a blog entry this week, you can check out the first monthly “Principles in Practice” newsletter from ANCS, highlighting the ways in which we use the Coalition of Essential Schools common principles in our work.  Back to a regular blog post next week–only so much time I can spend writing things in…

I got my first teaching job at a large, suburban public high school, standing in front of a room full of high school juniors about two months after I’d graduated from college.  Thinking back to that first year of teaching, I cringe at how little I knew about what I was doing (and the fact…

This is the first of what will (I hope) be weekly posts to this blog, each one aimed at exploring a relevant issue in schools, whether ANCS or all schools. I’ll do my best to watch for any comments and respond as I can. This week’s post is on the new teacher evaluation system that…