The Dropout Nation Podcast: Become Education Warriors for Our Children
On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the successes of outgoing Indiana Supt. Tony Bennett in advancing reform in the Hoosier State, and explains the five steps we can all take to follow his example of being powerful warriors for the futures of our children.
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[...] opposition to school reforms that will help black children. What they need to do instead is become warriors for overhauling American public education, following the example of colleagues such as Jason Fields in Wisconsin, Gary Holder-Winfield in [...]
Peter Ford
188 days ago
Indeed, I say some of those same things about ‘those students’ and ‘those parents’ at lunch and at happy hour, but when that child steps into my classroom my commitment and expectations are as if they were my own.
I embrace the phrase ‘in loco parentis’, pass on the same gifts to my students that were given (or in many cases sledgehammered and pile-driven) to me by my parents and those scary, demanding nuns and priests!