Re: Fw: [care] NCLB and Nancy Pelosi

[Lisa Schiff <sflschiff@yahoo.com>]

Does anyone know what the time frame is for getting information to Mary Ginley?  I'd like to really promote this, but would need to provide some sort of deadline.

Thanks,

Lisa Schiff
San Francisco public school parent

Monty Neill <monty@fairtest.org> wrote:     Here is one more avenue toward influencing the course of  federal legislation as ESEA is renewed. We worked with Mary Ginley and she  was  a strong advocate for ending the regime of testing, promoting high  quality alternatives, and battling for real equity. Monty
  
 ----- Original Message -----  From: Meg Robbins 
 To: care@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 6:20 AM
 Subject: [care] NCLB and Nancy Pelosi

 

    

 FYI  to CARE listserve:
   Mary  Ginley is a former Massachusetts Teacher of the Year from western Mass--who  taught for years on  both sides of the spectrum in Holyoke and Longmeadow.  She became an activist against high stakes testing when MCAS was first  introduced and helped co-found western Mass CARE. After "retiring" from teaching  in Massachusetts two years ago, she moved to Florida where she has since been  teaching--and experiencing first hand the effects of FCAT. 

We are most fortunate that she has been chosen to  participate on this panel--and I sincerely hope that each of us -- activists and  lurkers on the CARE site, will step forward and share our experiences, and  suggestions. The very idea that teachers are being asked (finally) to contribute  to what may be a forward- thinking new direction, is possibly the most  heartening move we have seen since 1993. 

Start writing!

   Cheers and hurrahs,

              Meg Robbins

megrobb@gmail.com
UK 07986 562210

----------  Forwarded message ----------
From: Mary Ginley < pickygin@yahoo.com >
Date: 09-Dec-2006  00:10
Subject: NCLB and Nancy Pelosi


 
Exciting times...Democrats in charge of Congress and NCLB up for  renewal.  I think I see a glimmer of light at the end of a long, long  tunnel. 
  
 Dennis Fehr, advisor to Nancy Pelosi on education issues, has, at  her request, formed a National Education Task Force and I have been asked  to join this group.    I spoke at length with him today and found out  a few things.  
  
  First, the group is small and has some big names (David Berliner and  Linda Darling-Hammond, for example) but Nancy wants actual teachers' voices to  be heard. 
  
  Next, the first order of business is to take a hard look at  NCLB.  
  
 My first assignment is two-fold:
  
 1.  Collect stories:  What has NCLB done to you as a  teacher?  to your students?  to your school?  to your  colleagues?  They are looking for honest stories and will not need your  name but will need the name of the school and town.  ...how has NCLB  impacted you and people you know?  how has it changed the way you  teach?  the way your students learn?  the emotional climate in the  classroom?  etc? 
  
 2. Collect specific suggestions:  Assuming funding were in place, how  would you determine the effectiveness of a program, a school, a district other  than high stakes testing?  How would you decide if students knew what they  should know to graduate?  How would you ensure that "no child was left  behind", that we really did provide equal access to the American dream  and how would you prove it?  
  
 If funding were NOT in place, how would you go about doing it?
  
 Please share with me your stories, your suggestions, your thoughts.   Send them to 
  
 mary.ginley@gmail.com
  
  And please forward this email to others you think might be interested  in helping.  
  
 Mary Ginley
  
  




 

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