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Teaching stories: September 14

9/14/2018

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Disclaimer #1 - I’m not blaming anyone in today’s post. Disclaimer #2 - I am screaming a little in this post. SORRY! Disclaimer #3 - I’m ok and I’ll be fine and I haven’t lost hope. And…… How how how how how do we allow students to progress through our educational system and arrive in 6th grade reading at the 1st grade level? I’m not a proponent for retention. I AM A PROPONENT FOR GETTING STUDENTS THE SUPPORT THEY NEED AND EARLY INTERVENTION.
On Monday, I’ll add to my teaching schedule a reading intervention group - 5 students, three reading at the early 2nd grade level and two reading at the early 1st grade level. 4/5 with IEPs. 1 with dyslexia.
I will love these students. And, by God, I will work to nudge them along even though I desperately want to leaps-and-bounds them to higher reading levels.
I may be well-intentioned, creative, and dedicated. But, I’m ill-equipped and under-resourced for this unique situation.
And I’m sad. I’ve cried these past few nights thinking of children who are left behind.
This post is not a pity party. Truly. It is a genuine distress call about how We as a system, We as a whole, don’t get to every child. Children don’t fall through the cracks - the systemic inequities fracture the playing field and children get caught in the absence of educational justice. And at the end of the day, I know that, perhaps even without malice, I’ve played into this system of disparity. I’m complicit, too.
Disclaimer #4 - It was a full, sort-of rough week. I’m tired. I promise to focus more on the good than the hard spots. But I can’t tell a year of authentic teaching stories without these vignettes, too. I know you understand.
Love, Jen

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      • Student Blog Posts
    • Expeditions into New Mexico Wilderness Areas
    • Content and Curriculum Resources
  • Think Global - Finland
    • Introduction
    • Education in Finland
    • International Expressions of Global Education >
      • Global Education Concepts and Definitions
    • Case Study: Global Education in Finland >
      • Global Education Initiatives Timeline
      • Themes of Global Education in Finland
    • Curriculum Development >
      • Resources for Teachers
      • Finland Blog
    • Gratitude and Dedication
  • Think Global - Germany
    • Teach Global - Germany
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    • Journal
    • Think Global Resource Guide >
      • Essential Question
      • Standards Based Global Education
      • Global Education Unit: American Indians and Indigenous Peoples of the World – Past, Present and Future
      • Digital Learning Environment Inventory
      • Local Resource Guide
      • Global Education Unit: Being American: An examination of the struggle for civil liberties for historically disenfranchised groups of Americans
      • Global Education Student Assessment Tools Inventory
      • International Project -Based Learning Opportunities
      • TGC Teacher Blogs
  • Teach Global
    • Think Global - Peru >
      • Virtual Field Trip to Peru >
        • Tasty Peru Tour
      • Peru Teacher Resources
    • Virtual Field Trip to Pakistan
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    • Global Leadership Odyssey Project: Introduction Videos to Students in Cartagena, Colombia
    • Colombia Lessons and Presentations
    • Schools Around the World
    • Ancient China
    • iEARN Global Learning Circle - Spring 2014
  • Chaco Canyon Trek 2018
  • Non-clickable Page