Instead of staying after school yesterday to prepare for the next day, teachers from across the state filed into the Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center to raise their voices yet again about the importance of raising teacher pay and to provide solutions for consideration to make that happen to Governor Holcomb’s Next Level Teacher…
Since the passing of the great literary genius Toni Morrison, people have taken time to reflect upon her body of work. Morrison, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature, is known for her novels like Beloved and for her essays and lectures. She also wrote children’s book with her son Slade Morrison, who preceded…
Last month, over sixty of my relatives took a cruise to the Bahamas for our family reunion. It was the first time my children had been out of the country and on a ship. Although they read fluently and above grade level, they were confused about the terminology my husband and I were using while…
Teach for America (TFA) and other alternative teaching programs provide an invaluable service of providing teachers for hard to staff schools. These schools tend to have populations of students who are of color and/or living in poverty. Students in these schools are used to the teacher churn. Teachers come and go, or there is not…
If you would have asked me last school year what I would be doing this school year, I would have told you I would still be an elementary librarian. Apparently, some educators did not see that as a real teaching job. Yes, I’m no longer a librarian, but not because of those comments, but those…
I was the last hire of my school’s administration team. Everyone else had the entire summer to acclimate. I had less than two weeks. During that two-week time span, I went to the Bahamas for a family reunion cruise that was planned two years prior. Whatever is worse than drinking water from a fire hose…
Fierce student advocate and IPS resident La Meca Perkins-Knight has had enough. She resigned from the district where she has served for 13 years, an action she didn’t anticipate taking but believes is a necessary step to move her work forward. While in IPS, she served as a vice president of the Indianapolis Education Association….
November 2018, Rhondalyn Cornett resigned as union president of the Indianapolis Education Association (IEA) after being accused of mismanaging more than $100,000. Cornett has now pleaded guilty to embezzlement. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Cornett could spend up to 20 years in prison and pay a fine up to $250,000. The joint FBI and…
With the recent push for self-care, people have been encouraged to take mental health days to take care of themselves. Physical health is just as important as mental health, so wouldn’t students benefit from mental health days? Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon, signed legislation last month that will allow students to take mental health days…
For some reason, in education, we have a bad habit of repeating past programs but expecting different outcomes. Desegregation busing is a solution being touted again that I do not want to see repeated during my lifetime again or at any other point in the future. The desegregation busing debating came to the forefront during…