Archive of 2012 April
Measuring What We Value: Educator Evaluation and Racial Equity
on April 18th, 2012 in Educator Effectiveness, Evaluation, Racial Equity by West Wind | Comments OffDownload the Handout Library image (cc) Amanda Tipton
Continue reading...Slide: Mission Statement
on April 11th, 2012 in Slides by West Wind | Comments OffSlide: Student Artwork 02
on April 10th, 2012 in Slides by West Wind | Comments OffSlide: Student Artwork 01
on April 10th, 2012 in Slides by West Wind | Comments OffWest Wind Hosts Screening of the American Teacher Documentary
on April 9th, 2012 in Blog by Mandi Bozarth | No Comments
On Tuesday, April 3, West Wind Education Policy, Inc. and the Bijou Theatre at the University of Iowa co-hosted a screening of the American Teacher, a documentary produced by the Teacher Salary Project. The Project aims to raise awareness of teacher working conditions in America, including salary, hours, and respect…
Continue reading...“College- and Career-Readiness” Calls for High School Transformation
on April 7th, 2012 in Blog by Circe Stumbo | No Comments“College- and career-readiness” has become a “new” goal for education reformers nationally. (I put “new” in quotation marks, because this is not a particularly new idea or debate, though certainly the term “college- and career-readiness” is new.) The aspiration of many reformers is that each and every young person will graduate…
Continue reading...Seeing Through and Beyond
on April 2nd, 2012 in Blog by Deb Hansen | 2 CommentsI just opened an email from a colleague asking me if I could help her find an article she needed for her work with local district administrators across the state. She was looking for The Singular Power of One Goal (Sparks, 1999) to encourage superintendents and principals to consider the…
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