tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356553136073654122024-03-14T13:33:47.277-04:00Children are more than test scoresThis blog welcomes readers who believe that No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top, and Every Student Succeeds Act are misguided educational reform policies that rely too heavily on standardized test scores that are too focused on punitive measures against local schools. This is also the diary of Jesse Turner's 2010/15 walks to Washington DC from Connecticut, and his occupation of the DOE in DC with United Opt Out, and his opposition to public school choice policies without equity.
Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.comBlogger551125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-71578143841892041962024-03-10T16:06:00.000-04:002024-03-10T16:06:14.967-04:00What Scripted Literacy Programs and Chorme Books Miss<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHoU-tnhVoD3ZpQb2ExK5xCCe3Ox80GrQBd3Ly_XYMz8KKYgC_Uo5PeDYfDjNOOIo7i90CNVlSAT8jLfrosq2m-8u2V1E-RFTlYKsSHdm3pXAeISkk2Rrl6KEr8sFOvejIFvOsNnZ5ig6-XfndCkbWohrvzfS0N4iRM5JQJt5YxBFLum72mODB5cyeCWut" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHoU-tnhVoD3ZpQb2ExK5xCCe3Ox80GrQBd3Ly_XYMz8KKYgC_Uo5PeDYfDjNOOIo7i90CNVlSAT8jLfrosq2m-8u2V1E-RFTlYKsSHdm3pXAeISkk2Rrl6KEr8sFOvejIFvOsNnZ5ig6-XfndCkbWohrvzfS0N4iRM5JQJt5YxBFLum72mODB5cyeCWut=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">We hear much about the Science of Reading and mandated scripted programs, teacher-proof silver bullets. I was discussing how lessons are opportunities to insert some magic into our teaching. A group of teachers from a district using one of the state recommended SOR Silver Bullet Reading Programs; said we don't write lesson plans in one of my courses. I asked them how do you modify and differentiate instruction for Individual instruction for Second Language and Special Education Students? "Everyone gets the same, everyone learns at the same pace. I asked what about those special learning moments that change everything? "We don't have them, to be honest, Dr. Turner the kids are bored and so are we. I said I don't see much science in scripted programs, and I bet even advocates of SOR might agree. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was Reads Across America Day, and as always, I visited a local school to read. I picked a few books to read at a local school whose teachers write lessons, teach a healthy dose of phonics, and squeeze lots of real reading. They assigned me two classes to read to. I always asked for classes with plenty of second-language learners. One of the teachers Mrs. Jefferson saw me in the office and said looking forward to having you read to my students later. She said 10 of them are new arrivals. I told her I was bringing one of my Spanish Language Teachers to help me read a bilingual book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">She said that was perfect. I love reading aloud to classes. I always wear my CCSU Colors and put on a great show. Of all the paths I could take, and dreams I could chase, only one called my heart ❤️ </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Like all paths, teaching some days is tough, but then some are perfect. This is me on a perfect day with my LLA 440 student at Reads Across America Day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr. Martinez and I read “Super Oscar” A bilingual book about Oscar De La Hoya. The children loved hearing it in Spanish and English. Of course, we read like we were comic actors, hamming it up to highlight Spanish and English words like Música. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">We were on a roll this morning. Our plan was, to begin with, me saying to the class "Wo Wo Me", I brought the wrong book. This one is a bilingual book, in Spanish and English. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Everyone knows Dr. Turner's is not very good. My apologies Ms. Jefferson, but I won't be able to read to your students today. Sorry Children I can't read to you today. I would need a Superhero Spanish Teacher. Then from the back of the room came "Hola Dr. Turner, it is me Mr. Martinez a Superhero Spanish Teacher". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">We read, being sure to involve the children, and whenever a problem in the book popped in this one there were many. I close the book saying that is it children, it all goes downhill from here. I better leave now. Of course, a chorus of no you have to read more. You might even say Mr. Martinez and I scripted it, and then something very unsuspected happened. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was the highlight of the day. One newly arrived student to the USA got right up next to the book whenever Mr. Martinez was reading the Spanish text. We thought maybe he wanted to see the pictures better. Mr. Martinez put the book right in front of him. Then he started reading every word in Spanish fluently and with feeling. It was as if he was part of our team. We had to have him join us. This is the stuff literacy educators live for, this is the stuff that scripted can't do. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Teaching calls my heart still 40 years later, <br />Dr. Jesse P. Turner CCSU Literacy Center Director</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxfwAZSxo7phsW5L2FfrgFShYT1FZBsK5ZmqsqDFyc6p5ybD_3BPqycUxdysOJyF5lfl15qcMygVU6gDAb-k6_Pj2v3c3JnND454sUUt_zzb9Je4BpHRJfGlPfhwF4HYGJRZ0ekoCYWXPQ7En5qCM-mv9xMP6w2dy3aHVdbZ7bWh20Ph34A3MzOpEewfCw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxfwAZSxo7phsW5L2FfrgFShYT1FZBsK5ZmqsqDFyc6p5ybD_3BPqycUxdysOJyF5lfl15qcMygVU6gDAb-k6_Pj2v3c3JnND454sUUt_zzb9Je4BpHRJfGlPfhwF4HYGJRZ0ekoCYWXPQ7En5qCM-mv9xMP6w2dy3aHVdbZ7bWh20Ph34A3MzOpEewfCw=w271-h240" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barry Lane and Jesse Enjoying a walk together </td></tr></tbody></table>
If you like to listen to the song that inspired my walk today, it was Barry Lane's "Little Programs" </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://barrylane.bandcamp.com/track/little-programs">https://barrylane.bandcamp.com/track/little-programs </a>
</span></span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAypWclmDfluqEydS6iRGG5uVbpnJgMwiG6u1yzqPckcPnfVdpNTxJPbt5Su6sKSHB1-CrpZ4XKTw056q8C6Vix04QfM_iDhdWbL6AL57diUxtncoFha6lb53aeiYeNCdD3n1vcVHUCgmXVQ835VSvxt7uwV7d7Ux9rVzleLcpRpf1fFz_tzB6lUMRAYhG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="414" data-original-width="437" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAypWclmDfluqEydS6iRGG5uVbpnJgMwiG6u1yzqPckcPnfVdpNTxJPbt5Su6sKSHB1-CrpZ4XKTw056q8C6Vix04QfM_iDhdWbL6AL57diUxtncoFha6lb53aeiYeNCdD3n1vcVHUCgmXVQ835VSvxt7uwV7d7Ux9rVzleLcpRpf1fFz_tzB6lUMRAYhG=w400-h379" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-49485733368625689442024-03-05T08:49:00.003-05:002024-03-05T08:49:25.753-05:00Activism lifts our soul and body Uniting to Save Our Schools. <p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie9Y7aSMWKAFZC18OKGna9lUGPSAkFBfQWXnXd2Rwk7xpKvQfgB3Cx1RqaiY4u14_RdKNH4YcdiHAkbpGXIPvId0y6fwwqa9qAbFFlIW1r9QhgtPlA1H4AFZUCYaImTTvt4Bwg4f50rDZFxfsU-kupovIGFurEQnycB5maIKOt3QWgYGVnUN3I24yDa3tZ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1184" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie9Y7aSMWKAFZC18OKGna9lUGPSAkFBfQWXnXd2Rwk7xpKvQfgB3Cx1RqaiY4u14_RdKNH4YcdiHAkbpGXIPvId0y6fwwqa9qAbFFlIW1r9QhgtPlA1H4AFZUCYaImTTvt4Bwg4f50rDZFxfsU-kupovIGFurEQnycB5maIKOt3QWgYGVnUN3I24yDa3tZ=w487-h300" width="487" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Change requires we put in the work <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In 2010, during the National Council of Teacher Conference held in Philadelphia, a panel of educators discussed the harmful effects of high-stakes testing on students and public schools. The panelists presented research indicating that such policies were killing students' motivation to learn and were consuming eight weeks of valuable learning time. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Despite this, lawmakers and policymakers remained silent on the issue. After the session, two teachers, Nancy Creech and Ruby Clayton from Michigan, asked what could be done to address the issue since no one seemed to be listening. Dr. Jesse P. Turner, a university professor, suggested educators follow in the footsteps of Civil Rights Leaders and walk to Washington DC to bring attention to the issue. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thus began the story of the Walking Man. Dr. Turner embarked on a 400-mile walk from Connecticut to Washington DC to raise awareness about the harmful effects of high-stakes testing. Over fifty pounds was lost during the journey; he was welcomed in DC by Bess Altwerger Vivian M Vasquez, the Dean of the School of Education. A plan was put in motion to organize the Save Our Schools Conference, Rally, and March in 2011, which brought together Diane Ravitch, Jonathon Kozol, Karen Lewis, CTO leaders, the </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wisconsin Teachers Union, and 12,000 others to DC. This event sparked a resistance movement that is still active today, fighting against harmful education reform policies of high-stakes testing, privatization, and choice without equity reforms. Resisters are in the face of harmful education reform policies in all 50 states these days. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I believe that silence and apathy are unacceptable, and he continues to unite educators to save our schools. Activism lifts both the soul and the body. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If we don't fight back, we lose, and losing is not an option for our children, teachers, and public schools, Dr. Jesse P. Turner <br />Uniting to Save Our Schools Badass Teacher<br /><br />If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my walk this morning? It is Barry Lane's "Jesse Turner the Walkin' Man" <a href="https://barrylane.bandcamp.com/track/jesse-turner-the-walkin-man">https://barrylane.bandcamp.com/track/jesse-turner-the-walkin-man</a><br /><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjci38mw1zAgQvYxBlEoH71lqtKmyfCe68Mlrnfk5VSF83sIpegSZofOAG4I-v5xvYBWrB6CMHi9M0PQ7XFWPCL6uB6aHi_0fchyrbqHZOS7iRmm6QHqmDyLDSMcsjl3LJOa0JkeGAsqcvdq-XB5CkvcKUn25EwONxo1lSRxg9DwJREaFYDLsjoxu6J6Ow8/s206/964744_10151884315459018_223015929_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="206" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjci38mw1zAgQvYxBlEoH71lqtKmyfCe68Mlrnfk5VSF83sIpegSZofOAG4I-v5xvYBWrB6CMHi9M0PQ7XFWPCL6uB6aHi_0fchyrbqHZOS7iRmm6QHqmDyLDSMcsjl3LJOa0JkeGAsqcvdq-XB5CkvcKUn25EwONxo1lSRxg9DwJREaFYDLsjoxu6J6Ow8/s1600/964744_10151884315459018_223015929_o.jpg" width="206" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69c6L9LOEdg33f3kaE_dpUdHkVuhby9C7DwKeC0bRB77VU5n_7qS_wWEQ_knt1xxEIdk07wqqlnm0xvn4oDlE9EC206Ya7elI5Q-miOnMoFLdZzzkSNTcPmDfknagPawR4rTltdj3-sdeuh5npwGl6vo8PxxEbvcyuAiizRW89JcTpoaBJLYGMeZZwXU_/s206/43310138_10157749169049018_5570404211604062208_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="206" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69c6L9LOEdg33f3kaE_dpUdHkVuhby9C7DwKeC0bRB77VU5n_7qS_wWEQ_knt1xxEIdk07wqqlnm0xvn4oDlE9EC206Ya7elI5Q-miOnMoFLdZzzkSNTcPmDfknagPawR4rTltdj3-sdeuh5npwGl6vo8PxxEbvcyuAiizRW89JcTpoaBJLYGMeZZwXU_/s1600/43310138_10157749169049018_5570404211604062208_n.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Silence and apathy are not acceptable </span></div><br /><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-35184602830201161122023-12-21T10:42:00.001-05:002023-12-21T10:42:37.974-05:00Tolstoy's Three Questions<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5v4bVc9szW6MwSoxQISMVhASCfrdgQn5aMmETMgsWo6wev7FWBQs4DEkW4zByiYKqkAC_NZP3filTPnG2X7Y1PzVIP5SKzMc-zdMNFDrrKWlW-4gUGJq1Yl3ZrN925oTY3l2UCIMnxRVxwxdWgqFKReuMIowYRYq-d4hsswbglAx9YTDqXC5jiaxZYBx/s3360/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2010.03.19%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="3360" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5v4bVc9szW6MwSoxQISMVhASCfrdgQn5aMmETMgsWo6wev7FWBQs4DEkW4zByiYKqkAC_NZP3filTPnG2X7Y1PzVIP5SKzMc-zdMNFDrrKWlW-4gUGJq1Yl3ZrN925oTY3l2UCIMnxRVxwxdWgqFKReuMIowYRYq-d4hsswbglAx9YTDqXC5jiaxZYBx/w640-h400/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2010.03.19%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">50 years guided by 3 questions</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />I do not have big answers to the<br />Hate,<br />Wars,<br />Poverty,<br />Racism,<br />Religious bigotry, <br />Injustices.<br /><br />I have spent my life fighting not trying to save the world. Saving the world is beyond me. I have spent my life doing small goods. Not world changers, but maybe ones that help one person at a time. For, I was once that one person.<br /><br />All I have are 3 questions,<br />Three questions with small answers,<br />To guide me in a world of hate, endless wars, refugees, and inequality. <br /><br />Literature guides my thinking. Books and stories feed my soul. <br />Jon j. Muth's retelling of Leo Tolstoy's parable: "The Three Questions" is about an emperor who seeks a holy man on a mountain for answers he believes will help him be a great king.<br />This king believes that giving him the answers to the three most important questions will make him great. <br /><br />Three questions we need to ask ourselves every day. Three questions that open our soul to our humanity.<br />1. When is the best time to do things? (NOW)!<br />2. Who is the most important one? (The one next to you)!<br />3. What is the right thing to do? <br />(The right thing)!<br /><br />Simple truth: Being a humanitarian and making a difference, requires always doing the right thing, for the one standing in front of you. The time to do the right thing is always now. <br /><br />May you live a just life,<br />May you stand tall on your last day,<br />May the love you give,<br />Last long after you are gone.<br /><br />Happy Holidays,<br />Dr. Jesse P. Turner <br />A Tolstoy Fan<br /><br />If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my morning walk today, it is Nat King Cole's Silent Night. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NseG4tLymp4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NseG4tLymp4 </a> <br /></span><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY7-zp8GlfYKNNqM51qIUq44i174YeH1eIrc15nVbysX2P9TtwfL6Oo0cpBK1PYdbNSsWNtwx7-BAG0QEBqBZcs2Cx3DMIH49sX1P6fHJmA6vVdfl-qjhyO55CqZCGVpLh29vrjjdl4dZr6hLVgqHTDOcNE7colzwh_EInCZc4JSnSHLEmHbGI95TsUphB/s3000/76D04A1A-085F-44EA-BC09-EC49F90904E8_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY7-zp8GlfYKNNqM51qIUq44i174YeH1eIrc15nVbysX2P9TtwfL6Oo0cpBK1PYdbNSsWNtwx7-BAG0QEBqBZcs2Cx3DMIH49sX1P6fHJmA6vVdfl-qjhyO55CqZCGVpLh29vrjjdl4dZr6hLVgqHTDOcNE7colzwh_EInCZc4JSnSHLEmHbGI95TsUphB/s320/76D04A1A-085F-44EA-BC09-EC49F90904E8_1_201_a.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-63236744739536307542023-12-14T11:13:00.003-05:002023-12-14T11:13:35.573-05:00No teacher is an Island we sail on that boat of past teachers and the books they shared<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVaeFni4LLBaEsV9v4GY5mSVgwc06EKYs5XAfEJorJZhxMeGCP22MOn5t2NpoXb0OksHtU1IKY7slCKRzLYniwzi_-nViPxmvYcQJxGtzObOSNf6DIqMGQvJtaWRh6QOoo0c2qgUk023zTZKnqFPHVgiJ8yU28VainDE3-wuTguQHLtimvAz0SwdLWV7bU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="600" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVaeFni4LLBaEsV9v4GY5mSVgwc06EKYs5XAfEJorJZhxMeGCP22MOn5t2NpoXb0OksHtU1IKY7slCKRzLYniwzi_-nViPxmvYcQJxGtzObOSNf6DIqMGQvJtaWRh6QOoo0c2qgUk023zTZKnqFPHVgiJ8yU28VainDE3-wuTguQHLtimvAz0SwdLWV7bU=w533-h640" width="533" /></a></div><br /> My undergraduate and graduate students know about my journey from homeless kid to Professor through the lens of the loving, caring teachers who inspired me, and the books that held me strong in the darkness. Books and teachers saved my life, lifted me, and fed my soul with endless love ❤️<p></p><p>No teacher stands alone, every one of us is fortified by the teachers of our childhood, and the books they feed our souls. My teachers came in all colors and faiths.</p><p>I stand on a mountain of caring teachers, and the book they use to lift me up,</p><p>Dr. Jesse P. Turner </p><p>CCSU Literacy Center Director<br />Uniting to Save Our Schools<br />Proud Badass Teacher <br /><br />I wish all teachers peace, love, joy, and hope. If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my walk this morning it is Barry Lane's "If You Ever Had a Teacher" > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPr1dhPkPVg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPr1dhPkPVg </a><<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu_k-eSMKv71Jg0P5DxHwUECC-_QVFRo72FYDsxL_MTVbTfn5Q-JWRWg4b7FEM1wPAc_JAZoQa3RlAfVKMJnM6F1QKgP-PAQwbxH_UozYNa5BJvQzEwASZIrGtoRuzMIRYdDS6WHTkmFh7PRA2Nhln-zXKaTCxQYa-Cc8Ev0m6dUWUedb3jKXe7zV-qK-3" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2048" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu_k-eSMKv71Jg0P5DxHwUECC-_QVFRo72FYDsxL_MTVbTfn5Q-JWRWg4b7FEM1wPAc_JAZoQa3RlAfVKMJnM6F1QKgP-PAQwbxH_UozYNa5BJvQzEwASZIrGtoRuzMIRYdDS6WHTkmFh7PRA2Nhln-zXKaTCxQYa-Cc8Ev0m6dUWUedb3jKXe7zV-qK-3=w400-h301" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing together with teaching hearts full of love and hope <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-30343421147453942632023-12-08T13:50:00.005-05:002023-12-09T05:18:03.388-05:00I am not afraid of the Big Bad AI<p> <b>High-Stakes Testing & AI: Be careful of what you wish for? </b>Upfront, know that I reject the notion that standardized testing should drive learning. </p><p><b>The Impact of High-stakes Testing on the Learning Environment</b></p><p>“ Kids today are literally spending half of their school year on learning how to take a high-stakes test, testing is adding up to about 5 months of their schooling. In elementary school, we are teaching our students how to take a test through tutorials, then setting up practice labs, and then practicing the actual test, and then we add in staff meetings and staff tutorials, it is overtaking our schools. Day in and day out testing is at the forefront of learning, and it is consuming are teacher’s daily curriculum. The pressure is high when being put in a position of being sanctioned or rewarded so it is difficult to spend less time teaching the material that will be on an achievement test.” ~ Maddolyn Ritt (2016 The Impact of High-stakes Testing on the Learning Environment > https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1660&context=msw_papers <</p><p>Should anyone be surprised that 2 decades of high-stakes testing reducing learning to multiple choice and brief correct responses have made it easy for AI to build essays using these kinds of responses? Never mind how such learning reduces how teachers and students interact with each other. AI is the perfect essay for questions built on those 5-months of endless test prep from grades 3 to 12. Testing companies/CEOs wished for ways to profit, and policymakers and legislators gave it to them. Perhaps our learning motto should be American Children are Test Scores and Profits? </p><p><b>Negative Effects of AI in Education EDU Passport </b></p><p>“To begin with, AI may reduce the opportunities for students and educators to interact and socialize with each other. These interactions are important for developing skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, and collaboration. AI cannot fully substitute the human connection and the emotional support that educators and students provide to each other in the classroom.” > <a href="https://blog.edupassport.io/2023/07/negative-effects-of-ai-in-education-sector/#:~:text=To%20begin%20with%2C%20AI%20may,empathy%2C%20communication%2C%20and%20collaboration">https://blog.edupassport.io/2023/07/negative-effects-of-ai-in-education-sector/#:~:text=To%20begin%20with%2C%20AI%20may,empathy%2C%20communication%2C%20and%20collaboration</a>. <</p><p>Rather than discussing ways to enhance our human connections? Rather than discuss how AI may reduce how students and teachers interact and socialize, we are worried about AI writing essays for our students. Essays that over the past 2 decades have been watered down to factual short learning responses void of our personal, social, emotional, and cultural realities. Essay made to order for AI. <br />My students no longer question what they are learning, they really question why or what I ask of them. However, they always ask for the rubric, count the points, and chase points not learning. They play a game of filling boxes, not their minds. </p><p>I have learned to ask those bigger questions about why and what we learn, asking learners to discuss, question, and respond not only with simplified facts, but to elaborate on how what they learn impacts them personally, socially, emotionally, politically, and culturally. Are there hidden agendas in what Dr. Turner is asking you to learn? My best defense against AI, is to engage my students in discussions about bigger reasons for learning.</p><p>I am not afraid of the Big Bad AI,<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Dr. Jesse P. Turner <br />CCSU Literacy Center Director </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">A short video blog on the above.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz0DfpckDTClOD-RF-keaM8iTPfr2YjPSzAVijar1CBS38bMRWFrQCl9ACThXiM6iT4ks2wkNKWqGLQdVZJxw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> Just in case you like to listen to the tune that inspired my morning walk it is Peter Seeger singing the cover of "Little Boxes" by <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px;">Malvina Reynolds > </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0</a> < </span></span><p><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-21572938348781337642023-12-05T10:05:00.003-05:002023-12-05T10:05:38.070-05:00High-Stakes Testing hijacked PURPOSE! <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6xaBcvnPnI1ci-5Pg1r54aM6Hqsza32bOhSQjUF4rRCw7rQLDCzsf8CS15NZ5I6qTe_BAqGo_8V7QmYlL-pPa5zHdJxiaKbMwPPZ488q2CnBem_Mi7DmKOWGpGOkismvII2Hj--c1lh7-nY-4Oc0NWR3Q9OmQtKXN6c-n7bCOUAz4YtPP4kjEdx-NSDxu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6xaBcvnPnI1ci-5Pg1r54aM6Hqsza32bOhSQjUF4rRCw7rQLDCzsf8CS15NZ5I6qTe_BAqGo_8V7QmYlL-pPa5zHdJxiaKbMwPPZ488q2CnBem_Mi7DmKOWGpGOkismvII2Hj--c1lh7-nY-4Oc0NWR3Q9OmQtKXN6c-n7bCOUAz4YtPP4kjEdx-NSDxu=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br />If you were to rank and sort my old high school according to today’s standards and test scores. James J. Ferris would rank at the bottom. <p></p><p>A Ghetto school whose teachers could care less about test scores and rankings. Our teachers were on a bigger mission than test scores, their standard was far bigger than any Common Core State Standard. Their goal was to make us literate adults, readers who loved and valued books. Valued books more than movies, valued reading to understand books prepared us for the best of times, and armored us for the worst of time. They Left so addicted to books that there has never been a night without reading in my life. </p><p>I remember Mrs. Sheeran saying we are going to read an amazing book. Imagine two men in love with the same woman, one about to be executed in his cell. The one she loved most was about to die. Girls, can you feel her pain? Now imagine the other who loved her so much he would give up his own life just to make her happy. She said boys all of you raise your hand if you would make the same decision? Only my hand was up. The others were you are crazy Jesse, she said not crazy, but a true Romantic. I am the books I read, and yes I am a romantic. Then she read Dickens's opening of “A Tale of Two Cities”</p><p>"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."</p><p>Then we got lost in that opening quote for the whole class. Increasing the pacing of her lesson had no place. She regularly stopped time for us, again and again. </p><p>Then she gifted us with reading chapter one for homework. I read the whole book that night. Then each night I read each chapter anew as any True Romantic would. We love learning about the French Revolution, London, and Paris. She had us from day one and held us through novel after novel. This is how teachers did it before these high-stakes tests; hijacked the purpose for becoming literate. I hope this is the way a few still do.</p><p>Blessed by incredible teachers, Dr. Jesse P. Turner<br />CCSU Literacy Center Director <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcr_QZfyo14Bo5ZAX-l65-MV2svxanjUk5jzaAyzXQPJUy-b4CPYe5-EVVX8C_3MINZZKVtwx2v50tOhvndzU3_H3OGcMxqNpNrAbpI3c0TkjHPCh9SnZ_Ys74Fc2ce4AVOKU6oQeclE0Azp66Iy-ZSUNK1KbhWTFlmvAzCDA40mNzE7SvI3ck2nwsgWr/s1096/320883608_1361829827981630_5229147217586664775_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1077" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcr_QZfyo14Bo5ZAX-l65-MV2svxanjUk5jzaAyzXQPJUy-b4CPYe5-EVVX8C_3MINZZKVtwx2v50tOhvndzU3_H3OGcMxqNpNrAbpI3c0TkjHPCh9SnZ_Ys74Fc2ce4AVOKU6oQeclE0Azp66Iy-ZSUNK1KbhWTFlmvAzCDA40mNzE7SvI3ck2nwsgWr/s320/320883608_1361829827981630_5229147217586664775_n.jpg" width="314" /></a></div>If you want to hear the song I listened to on my morning walk today it is Lou Lou's " To Sire With Lov" > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1qmmMwc9M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1qmmMwc9M </a> < Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-53684912575606849092023-11-23T14:51:00.004-05:002023-11-23T15:57:02.668-05:00Momma, I can can see clearly now <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I would give it all up to go back to that dark day to say grace with Momma. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Holidays have a way of lifting and breaking people, the lifting is easy, the breaking, well that takes more time. I am as blessed as any man, sitting around the fire here with our daughter, peeling potatoes with Carolyn, and singing Happy Chapin’s Greatest Hits on Vinyl. Loving every tune… Mr. Tanner, Cats in the Cradle, Taxi, 30,000 Pounds of Bananas, and All My Life is a Circle played. War is everywhere, but here at 110, we are safe, fed, warm, and blessed as can be. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">But then reflections come around, to that not quite 12 years old, Father abandoned, Thanksgiving before eviction. In every friend’s home, their Turkeys roast. Momma put our Thanksgiving feast of spaghetti and sauce on the table, reached across the table, and said join me in saying Grace. Now, I am not the soul I am today. I was just a boy consumed by anger and confusion of his life turned upside down. I yelled at her, saying it sucks, we have NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING, to be thankful for, and ran out of the kitchen. Put on my sneakers and ran out of the house. Leaving her alone. Alone, when she needed me most. Alone, like a million mothers. <br /><br />Kicking garbage cans, blaming my mother for everything. Knowing quite well, he left the month before when I jumped up and took the slap meant for her. Screaming I won’t let you hit her…he would be gone the next day, not even a note. As cruel as it sounds, he left for me, understanding his addictions, hate, and abuse would end up being on me. She knew; she accepted, she understood goodness in his leaving. <br /><br />It would take 2 years of being homeless, and 15 more years for this boy to understand. He would come home to die, and she would take her grown son to visit him. Why, are we doing do, I hate him. He is your father, and if you love me, then you must forgive him, and love him. She said to go into the chapel for a bit. Looking up at the cross, I say he is not deserving. But, who is deserving? I pray forgive me, forgive him, forgive us all, Lord. Manhood is never easy, never simple, but it does come around. <br /><br />I man up, go up the elevator to see this man, hold his hand, and say the word through crying eyes, I love you, Dad. That moment turns the tide, and I start a new manhood journey to being a better me. Momma knew it wasn't about her or him, it was always about their boy. Not every I love you is real, comes easy, but every real I love you makes a boy a man. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thanksgiving regrets, after that Thanksgiving tantrum, I returned home to find Momma sitting in the dark, drinking her tea, smoking her cigarette, and crying. I wanted so much to run to her and say I am sorry Momma. I was just an angry confused little boy and rather than run to her I ran to my bed. I was not the man I am today; this man's stuff comes too late. I would give all I own to go back, say grace, and hug her until my arms were too weary to hold on. Things would change, the sun would come out again, and an angry and confused little boy would eventually become the loving son his mother needed. <br /><br />I love holidays, but memories do come around to students lost, Francisco and Alex, dear, sisters Jessica and Maryellen, Niece Cathy, and dearest brothers from other mothers, Jose, Anthony, and Michael. Greif comes around, but I am not the boy, I am a man grown to understand that the sun shines on many beautiful holidays. I am the man blessed with still more good ones to come. I am thankful for this day. I send my Thanksgiving wishes for peace in Ukraine, the Middle East, and every corner of the world. May peace and love rain down on all people, everywhere, all faiths, non-believers, races, and LGBTQ sisters and brothers. Someday I too will be no more, but love is infinite, it has a way of hanging on long after. I know the love we share matters more than hate, and it is love that carries through. Momma, knew that and made sure I did as well. She left me a lifetime of her mother's love to hold me strong. Thank you, Momma. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today is good, today is blessed here at 110. I have only one regret, one I would give all I own to change. I would give it all up, to go back to that dark kitchen to say Grace with Momma and enjoy that most blessed Thanksgiving feast of spaghetti and sauce. Embracing her, loving her, saying Momma I finally understand. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Blessed by the highs and the lows of a blessed loving mother who knew the sun would come out tomorrow. Cling to the good ones, God sent them to hold us strong. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wishing all a million more blessings, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesse the boy who understands </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />If you want to know the tune on my mind this holiday. It is Jimmy Cliff " I can see clearly now" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c </a><br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg49WRqTkGLmHxF-Re6_CV6FTTdp8j3JZZILHwQi--hE3x-3CRJok6j3x8yjLnKDCm9hr3M1R2qu0XvdycM3WOIMqDiYy-glBTrASWoBKmwfowf8r6ID-ZgrXaBadANoesf47YMmu_FZj9kIV-F6h4z6oKGcCubnw4nenUpIAXYxqMmsoCkqJYv7dAEG6bM" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="382" data-original-width="382" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg49WRqTkGLmHxF-Re6_CV6FTTdp8j3JZZILHwQi--hE3x-3CRJok6j3x8yjLnKDCm9hr3M1R2qu0XvdycM3WOIMqDiYy-glBTrASWoBKmwfowf8r6ID-ZgrXaBadANoesf47YMmu_FZj9kIV-F6h4z6oKGcCubnw4nenUpIAXYxqMmsoCkqJYv7dAEG6bM=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If I could time back time<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvDTNQ90vtt-HBaa4E7ipHhIYzGJVsucZXsZKPf3x369Dva-lqICm1h7t13Tk6oRPLP6537syua9p3r6y5t-Bb3KKTHOIIZ6U9hhsF4j3Jxa7drLsa93J01MNDKEArZyr-rjUzMuOuy1b-oSPZSofol4vu19vZ9UXMAYxCv3IIXKRNdTu7pa_E8cMPiQD/s960/279560557_10161658576419018_6985635129989996577_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvDTNQ90vtt-HBaa4E7ipHhIYzGJVsucZXsZKPf3x369Dva-lqICm1h7t13Tk6oRPLP6537syua9p3r6y5t-Bb3KKTHOIIZ6U9hhsF4j3Jxa7drLsa93J01MNDKEArZyr-rjUzMuOuy1b-oSPZSofol4vu19vZ9UXMAYxCv3IIXKRNdTu7pa_E8cMPiQD/s320/279560557_10161658576419018_6985635129989996577_n.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Momma's boy until we are no more</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><br /></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-757594520317893142023-11-20T15:48:00.002-05:002023-11-20T15:49:06.854-05:00Where did all the silly fun go<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr7onpmoT7d1IGxIsenIibtAMDrsYNgnbFvG-SZwzx3fMlPbt5RHYNNUV_AwEMHGJ8ziISQl93kfFTDoZoktk-vLFiH03YDIGvyb07GCIfMU4vvfu4vZ0S49LpuudZUVmGwr6fwRMPQGJQjuEKMKNrhtn4R3wx4ZzoC66SlykWq2CSj22Ff-0kKosHQQF1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr7onpmoT7d1IGxIsenIibtAMDrsYNgnbFvG-SZwzx3fMlPbt5RHYNNUV_AwEMHGJ8ziISQl93kfFTDoZoktk-vLFiH03YDIGvyb07GCIfMU4vvfu4vZ0S49LpuudZUVmGwr6fwRMPQGJQjuEKMKNrhtn4R3wx4ZzoC66SlykWq2CSj22Ff-0kKosHQQF1=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Establish a joyful school and classroom culture that assures equal opportunity to learn for all. Learners include teachers and leaders as well as students. ~ Regie Routeman </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are going to have some fun with the children in our CCSU Literacy Center on Monday. Put a sign saying no kid is allowed to read this DANGEROUS Book! Make a big thing about saying their tiny brains can’t handle ideas. Everyone knows ideas are too dangerous for kids! Sometimes kids and Teachers need a little silly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So much of school these days is Chrome Book Busy Work Sheet work. When children arrive at our Literacy Center, I always ask; what you did in school today... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The most common response is boring stuff. Did you read anything exciting? The most common response is no, we didn't do any reading. If I dig a little deeper, I discover most of what is called reading is isolated skills, if they read something it most often is some decodable text. The term joyful appears less and less in this high-stakes-testing upload your data-driven every-hour era.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Children run to our CCSU Literacy Center and hang out long after their sessions are over, we often have to tell them it is time to go home. I love to set up silly invitations to read, pretend that I don't want them to read....make it fun, and give out plastic gold medals for reading. Our children love to come here, our secret is Tier 3 tutoring by fully certified teachers and a little silly fun. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I will bet my bottom last dollar that every single child read April Hillband's "This Book is Dangerous" and talks it up tonight.<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXQ7K9SvaXp87iRWdGh4pCfqg_c-dEspVMZ9eqv0Ce6aDkuzz4rT_w5iKS_Bo3aMUWxgj_Zy4eH2e1YRLca9qh_QrSHvtlBwleiAD4hJYAu1ZrgFeiTaWNzPoGCfrrTkgtIN6OxFH-rUzjqU2NCwFzEWBr1-jzZDZXBG48DnprDtuKwbqsiO2cfbUDW_7i" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1492" data-original-width="1120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXQ7K9SvaXp87iRWdGh4pCfqg_c-dEspVMZ9eqv0Ce6aDkuzz4rT_w5iKS_Bo3aMUWxgj_Zy4eH2e1YRLca9qh_QrSHvtlBwleiAD4hJYAu1ZrgFeiTaWNzPoGCfrrTkgtIN6OxFH-rUzjqU2NCwFzEWBr1-jzZDZXBG48DnprDtuKwbqsiO2cfbUDW_7i=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="font-family: Times;" /><span style="font-family: Times;">Sometimes I wonder where joyful learning went in our schools,</span><br style="font-family: Times;" /><span style="font-family: Times;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner </span><br style="font-family: Times;" /><span style="font-family: Times;">CCSU Literacy Center Director </span><br /><br />Don't tell the Policymakers, Data Junkies, or Rigor Ed Reformers. But tonight it is don't worry be happy We'll be jamming to a little Bobby McFerrin > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU</a> < <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8N1gXHmhMikBiLqmIpxM4rUZD2gOd8L5hunDkpTUh3krZEIy5I33Mz4441T4SLgmberE0eDmUyqaTJn9eGYTMAVVdEgJ2aM_iEA6y5XH0COh0_O3pxs4TEf8FWAUTeaA8XuxgRqqJ391XsTOJu1fukldmDF_0XbUdMfJTFXXnMEO0ZUWk5jSbHEXSYicY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="2374" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8N1gXHmhMikBiLqmIpxM4rUZD2gOd8L5hunDkpTUh3krZEIy5I33Mz4441T4SLgmberE0eDmUyqaTJn9eGYTMAVVdEgJ2aM_iEA6y5XH0COh0_O3pxs4TEf8FWAUTeaA8XuxgRqqJ391XsTOJu1fukldmDF_0XbUdMfJTFXXnMEO0ZUWk5jSbHEXSYicY=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /> </span><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-67107829090254964192023-11-19T12:44:00.006-05:002023-11-19T14:06:03.506-05:00ABC Went to the Ghetto today<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">People, this ABC story about truancy story is worth a look, but it misses the real story<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/growing-truancy-crisis-grows-americas-classrooms-104935651?fbclid=IwAR3BCTmZMNipMT5h3ke-ym8467emjwp2nHcXPahCAbcKLRJSv4cHhZcMkJ8">https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/growing-truancy-crisis-grows-americas-classrooms-104935651?fbclid=IwAR3BCTmZMNipMT5h3ke-ym8467emjwp2nHcXPahCAbcKLRJSv4cHhZcMkJ8</a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ABC WENT TO THE Ghetto today! </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Poverty in our schools matters, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Attendance matters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Living wages matter,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Eviction matter,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Housing insecurity matters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hunger matters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gun violence matters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gangs matter,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Domestic abuse matters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Health care matters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Wake everybody,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An America that spends 23 billion dollars every year on predominately white wealthy public schools, then our poor schools in communities of color is the PROBLEM,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Is MORALLY Broken.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our public schools are not broken,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our children are not broke,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our teachers are not broken.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The science reading can’t fix this chrome books won’t fix this,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All the HIGH-STAKES-TESTING in the world won’t fix this,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">More rigor won’t fix this,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">More Prisons won’t this,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">American Dreams won’t fix this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dr. Rev. Dr. William Barber said that we are an America without a heart problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An America without a moral compass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yes, we have a poverty problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yes, we have children who can’t read problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yes, we have a truancy problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yes, we have a gun problem. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We have a NO Heart Problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Compassion problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Love All Children Problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A No Moral Compass Problem,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Greed Problem.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">These Media Whiz’,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Did not talk to Dr. Rev William J. Barber, II</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They did not talk to parents in the shelters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They did not talk to evicted parents,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They did not talk to sick parents without healthcare,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They did not talk to any mothers working 3 part-time jobs parents.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Who did they talk to?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They talked to no parent,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They did not talk to Yetta M. Goodman’s Ghetto Ph.D.,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The expert who was once homeless,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The expert who knew hunger,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The expert who worked with Sister Antonelle Chunka to turned gang teenagers away from gang life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No, they did not talk to anyone who said, " This nation has a heart problem.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We need a war on poverty, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not a war on:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Poor,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our nation’s teachers, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our poorest schools, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Families living in Trauma, and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not our communities of color.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We need a war on GREED! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Just calling it like it is,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Uniting to Save Our Schools</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Badass Truth Telling Teacher <br /><br />If you like to listen to this Walking Man talk about how poverty matters: > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71O0ChPFzAI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71O0ChPFzAI </a>< </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEius3hYZ4kVjboQdAKof5zqRgQ9KdNn754-J2KN5aYK57oecPYtQtHAufJ_7T3XAJITMaD81UUVZBehkaXQRqDsclrn44MxcjLcfaiEeRzS912KDlNCX9sI53gzUWY_eUQEecLHtldLEiJ4q5-kg-Z9qW8mtnm9AnHExCokItVhIQnJv7YkP_WrfxROKBr8/s1142/5076262E-7684-40BE-8142-1516973030AA.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1142" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEius3hYZ4kVjboQdAKof5zqRgQ9KdNn754-J2KN5aYK57oecPYtQtHAufJ_7T3XAJITMaD81UUVZBehkaXQRqDsclrn44MxcjLcfaiEeRzS912KDlNCX9sI53gzUWY_eUQEecLHtldLEiJ4q5-kg-Z9qW8mtnm9AnHExCokItVhIQnJv7YkP_WrfxROKBr8/w400-h304/5076262E-7684-40BE-8142-1516973030AA.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCP_s6B89JB4yixEwrlmMvtPXth53dTQHq-DsmHikGeH1DqIyR26QPsolS5Tc6S7vfE9pp47QQjqprcZr17wBVGMhe5JepCVcCWHjbjE0sWveYyRZLEfjI64cSB0wJW-0wqqIWaBWUoLZtAfOudmxyOgD9HzkwgyRByW9lP7s_MdH5DBT0mvgw-VrGucS/s960/F80B1BEF-C29C-40EB-B343-01884C56076B_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="960" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCP_s6B89JB4yixEwrlmMvtPXth53dTQHq-DsmHikGeH1DqIyR26QPsolS5Tc6S7vfE9pp47QQjqprcZr17wBVGMhe5JepCVcCWHjbjE0sWveYyRZLEfjI64cSB0wJW-0wqqIWaBWUoLZtAfOudmxyOgD9HzkwgyRByW9lP7s_MdH5DBT0mvgw-VrGucS/w640-h318/F80B1BEF-C29C-40EB-B343-01884C56076B_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uniting to Save Our Schools have never stopped fighting <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-1592254546838408522023-11-10T13:09:00.005-05:002023-11-11T09:48:50.713-05:00Our Public Schools 3-5 Years until total collapse <p>
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For the past three years, I have been engaged in Teacher Shortage Conversations with Researchers, Teacher Educators and Classroom Teachers across the country. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">This not no one wants to:</span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Teach anymore, </span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not teachers fleeing, </span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not burnt out, </span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not demoralization, </span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is the most Significant Mental Health Crisis in the history of education.</span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible. Our Public School Teachers are in a Mental Health Crisis, and our policymakers, legislators, administrators, and the public have no clue. We are 3-5 years away from a total collapse of our public school system. Connecticut Education Association (CEA) survey said 75% of their teachers plan on retiring early or leaving the profession. </span>
<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">> <a href="https://www.wtnh.com/video/cea-releases-teacher-survey-results/9094845/">https://www.wtnh.com/video/cea-releases-teacher-survey-results/9094845/</a> <</span><br /><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
I hear legislators and school districts across the nation saying we can't afford to pay more, increase health benefits, pay off student loans, and reduce class sizes. All we can do is add more on their backs.
Just look at the Portland Teachers Strike. Guess what? While lesgilsators and policymakers don't get it, students do, and they are coming out to support Portland Teachers.
</span>> <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/portland-public-schools-students-rally-mediation-teachers-strike/283-56dfd4fc-6f85-4a18-a611-5916fc81abe6">https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/portland-public-schools-students-rally-mediation-teachers-strike/283-56dfd4fc-6f85-4a18-a611-5916fc81abe6</a> <<br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Everyone expert knows; that we don't have enough new teachers in the pipeline to take us out of this crisis.
</span>If you have sometime, consider listening to my 103.5 FM New Haven Gust Host Tom Ficklin Show with Dr. Cynthia McDermott from the the Progressive Teacher Netwrok discuss this teacher mental health crisis. Link the show: > https://<a href="http://www.facebook.com/wnhhradio/videos/840247374767405">www.facebook.com/wnhhradio/videos/840247374767405</a> < <br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Get ready Aemerica for classes of 50-100 students, and a massive return to COVID Online Learning,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Uniting to Save Our Schools </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Badass Teacher
Just in case you live in Connecticut and want to come join the wave to protect and transform our public schools November 18, from 10-3. 140 Legion Ave, New Haven, CT 06519
Teachers are not going down with a fight!
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp7EDdZBcnj97luT52XQT4p4Z-aX9KBmr2Nzt5fgyk5ribd-qSh0mw9_nS-a8nrtqLLc9yPZBqDQmZktvAqu4P-BpDVlhZ-XamnanKVrdUmU-OWhwx2nr3oBpoJjuTc0xNw900x51LE_9cTAF2qtp2-gkGvLC0Bp9g6XHrXOkQEyrI0sCK_dZKY5Yw4i9L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="140 Legion Ave New Haven CT 06519 11/18 10-3" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp7EDdZBcnj97luT52XQT4p4Z-aX9KBmr2Nzt5fgyk5ribd-qSh0mw9_nS-a8nrtqLLc9yPZBqDQmZktvAqu4P-BpDVlhZ-XamnanKVrdUmU-OWhwx2nr3oBpoJjuTc0xNw900x51LE_9cTAF2qtp2-gkGvLC0Bp9g6XHrXOkQEyrI0sCK_dZKY5Yw4i9L=w496-h640" width="496" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">In case you like to listen to the tune that inspire my morning walk it is the cover of Bob Marley's 'Stand up" by Play for Change. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6szT5NnwTY"></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6szT5NnwTY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6szT5NnwTY</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg5EU-q2iDtSkOg9rOvDSY4sxcbw0ZjgN613tEFRKbLn62xQaFKVWiWIVNjm-dTO4KujOVo5BKkPzc-v3zBYPzYA6NZYxk-e9bItfsVzm8g2WRQyiOcGrkZVe19_DQKKLKENGnEyMpSF56xTa6u_7RbaiUQdScldpZFWxsN30p3JVObvDlFPoo3yn4_qZ1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="2374" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg5EU-q2iDtSkOg9rOvDSY4sxcbw0ZjgN613tEFRKbLn62xQaFKVWiWIVNjm-dTO4KujOVo5BKkPzc-v3zBYPzYA6NZYxk-e9bItfsVzm8g2WRQyiOcGrkZVe19_DQKKLKENGnEyMpSF56xTa6u_7RbaiUQdScldpZFWxsN30p3JVObvDlFPoo3yn4_qZ1=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></div>
</span><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-89267915024896856402023-10-21T22:00:00.004-04:002023-10-21T22:14:24.355-04:00Want to attach and keep teachers? Then imagine fully funded schools <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxo0ATchsGhwfN1uvOjbhDV0kEqGiL3BCWNeeyxD7g_FRhqVn1XVU_4m0WOGlm7A_d_XyDK-iXUZGgWAMFSWCcVLJY_ibFG5GFSX784uBEe3TKCjDRQUvx14pT003f6s6TisGMkclR1UXZMX7aRygedtadH-iqwec1bVZC019cObityDdJLSJcQC-G9FTJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="906" data-original-width="870" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxo0ATchsGhwfN1uvOjbhDV0kEqGiL3BCWNeeyxD7g_FRhqVn1XVU_4m0WOGlm7A_d_XyDK-iXUZGgWAMFSWCcVLJY_ibFG5GFSX784uBEe3TKCjDRQUvx14pT003f6s6TisGMkclR1UXZMX7aRygedtadH-iqwec1bVZC019cObityDdJLSJcQC-G9FTJ=w613-h640" width="613" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Something our nation's Policymakers, Ed Reformers, CEOs, and Governors can't imagine, are schools and teachers with all the resources they need to be successful. They will spend billions on new testing, standards, curriculum in boxes, and Chrome books, but not on libraries, counselors, play, art, music, and smaller class sizes for poor children. <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Imagine how many teachers would want to teach and stay in these schools. Trust me, we would see an end to this teacher shortage crisis.
If they really cared about ending this teacher shortage crisis they should start by listening to veteran teachers. The link below is to a Guest Host Tom Ficlin 103.5 FM radio show where I engage veteran teachers in a real discussion about what would keep teachers from leaving our schools. Real solutions require real-time discussions. I have done 25 radio shows about real educators talking about real issues. Here is one of my recent ones on the teacher shortage crisis.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEK8PO57N4&ab_channel=NewHavenIndependent">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEK8PO57N4&ab_channel=NewHavenIndependent</a>
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</span><p></p><p><br /></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-41320320752577936612023-10-21T09:45:00.002-04:002023-10-21T12:30:34.466-04:00Higher Order Thinking Requires Art, Music, Movement. <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Salutations readers, today I am sharing something outside my Blogger box.<br /><br />I wear many hats, Literacy Center Director, Professor of Literacy, serve on various national boards, and committees, and Activist for less testing more teaching, and equity in our public schools. I am a Member of Moral Mondays CT and a proud union member. I also have been doing a once-a-month educators talking radio show for the Tom Ficklin Radio Show 103.5 FM New Haven. It is Facebook-lived as well, so you can see the Walking Man and his guest talking education. <br /><br />Yesterday my radio show focused on three educators and authors who work with Connecticut Public Schools to bring art, music, movement, and puppetry to classrooms. We called the show "The Three Musketeers of Fun". We have a powerful and joyful conversation about how art, music, and movement are the first therapies for Trauma. Wealthy children get plenty of all of these in their schools, but children in poor schools receive much much less. This means those children most likely to suffer from Trauma are not getting those essential therapies. <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Sir Ken Robinson said: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">“Teaching is a creative profession.”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.5px;">"Teachers are mentors, they are there to stimulate, provoke, engage, and facilitate learning. But because of the amount of standardized tests that have been mandated by our government, teachers — rather than excite curiosity — are having to be compliant. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">“One role of education is to awaken and develop creativity. Instead, we have a culture of standardization.”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> <br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">The Three Musketeers of Fun: Bringing art, music, and movement back to learning. Big secret we call this "Hot Cognition": when learning is connected to fun, it says with learners long-term. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Public School Principals and school districts, this is how we do fun. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In therapy Art, Music, and Movement are healers for children and adults suffering trauma. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Listen up, these three are telling us something important. </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Here is the link to my The Three Musketeers of Fun 103.5 FM New Haven Radio Show </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.5px;">> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewHavenIndependent/videos/876738393962430">https://www.facebook.com/NewHavenIndependent/videos/876738393962430 </a><<br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDhKh5dDKCiB95vdstQmupvtAxM8SnpeX4Kxnw03mFZg6Ad0EVWXCDZbUKIGbcI6k66kDXSZU-2Ncxpf7N_wi1xcSfaRgXif9ktfs49LxcIal2eQL0HubYiELuwjDHaavjVXqU1_pKBEjbsclmQNThHq4cNJI0r4oVKKv0vJTZGIZ6Dk-_wErrXLaKdre9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="2704" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDhKh5dDKCiB95vdstQmupvtAxM8SnpeX4Kxnw03mFZg6Ad0EVWXCDZbUKIGbcI6k66kDXSZU-2Ncxpf7N_wi1xcSfaRgXif9ktfs49LxcIal2eQL0HubYiELuwjDHaavjVXqU1_pKBEjbsclmQNThHq4cNJI0r4oVKKv0vJTZGIZ6Dk-_wErrXLaKdre9=w640-h368" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BRINGING JOY BACK TO LEARNING </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-60707034468399946442023-10-18T10:07:00.006-04:002023-10-18T10:13:29.467-04:00Teachers are Transformative Peacemakers <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />I<span style="font-family: georgia;">n a world torn by war, violence, and hate, teachers bring hope for peace.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGlxe54-e6X4kpApHpeMYRcOr4ct9CgTEfL8HNJdTfzZgVd-MjXTlH-_I72hZ2P5Xnw0aXAJXw-anluX1aEyOa8VgLDNpBzGAii2Dy0qv19I8yopVeWmC0tkoM9LmoNLo4por0kCbgRqpyz1JGLNM6NJiMgjjCJFL8iCuaDVVaz_ynkICCcVKsY3Ot6RzQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="CCSU Future Teachers coming to celebrate Hispanic Heriatge at Chamberlain Elementary School" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGlxe54-e6X4kpApHpeMYRcOr4ct9CgTEfL8HNJdTfzZgVd-MjXTlH-_I72hZ2P5Xnw0aXAJXw-anluX1aEyOa8VgLDNpBzGAii2Dy0qv19I8yopVeWmC0tkoM9LmoNLo4por0kCbgRqpyz1JGLNM6NJiMgjjCJFL8iCuaDVVaz_ynkICCcVKsY3Ot6RzQ=w480-h590" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CCSU Future Teachers Celebrating Hispanic Heritage preparing to read to Chamberlain Elementary Children in English and Spanish. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Amid war, </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the depths of violence,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the valley of grief, </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">When every news cycle is war,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">When innocents are murdered,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">When hate consumes our world. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think of Mahatma Gandhi saying: </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">When hate becomes too heavy,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think of teachers,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think of educators,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not teaching simple ABCs,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not teaching 3 times 3 is nine,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not teaching declarative sentence begins with a capital letter, and end in a period,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think of those bigger things,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">The big things like,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Respect for others,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sharing,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Saying thank you and your welcome,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Opening the door for another,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">For taking turns,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Reading books about all of us,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">But most of all I think about educators doing the work,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Celebrating all,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">These are the peacemakers,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">The real deal transformers.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I look around this Literacy Center that brings teachers, educators, children, and parents,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I find Hope in the ABCs of this place, and these transformers,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Who came here,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Like these Newington administrators and teachers, who are doing the peace work of diversity, inclusion, and equity in their schools,
</span>DIE builds respect for all of us,<br />I know peacemakers when I see them. <br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">The time for peace is now, </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">The time to end this eye for an eye-blinding is today.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">This Peace is built in classrooms around the world,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CCSU Literacy Center Director
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</span><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-80071314721636142582023-10-06T12:46:00.004-04:002023-10-06T13:18:36.015-04:00It's a Climb: Future Teachers need GOOD BONES <div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3IPyHx_WYKaakCasnBwTtpQBIHIEgN5H58G0nzS59QNkuK973SSLrHZp0yagej5DlR0JKNUgSgBl7PvFjkkOSWdPUx55VP6_Y0G6vwqwBhEJXL1g8Gb4NyFBQedJJm-Ra6zzL29b0Tf8C6Yeh5XG9IMFy-Xf8bGwtcnb0RZpMGWYuFQ6Z4007xnVSD4-F/s414/964744_10151884315459018_223015929_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3IPyHx_WYKaakCasnBwTtpQBIHIEgN5H58G0nzS59QNkuK973SSLrHZp0yagej5DlR0JKNUgSgBl7PvFjkkOSWdPUx55VP6_Y0G6vwqwBhEJXL1g8Gb4NyFBQedJJm-Ra6zzL29b0Tf8C6Yeh5XG9IMFy-Xf8bGwtcnb0RZpMGWYuFQ6Z4007xnVSD4-F/w249-h320/964744_10151884315459018_223015929_o.jpg" width="249" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTgyzqslLHH9EuObhMxaAWtFX90lvaF7LcHKWL7_8KyTH9sbC5ZBynRYIuV_BQUHXS0JLks09Hr4zWGRL9eABe1d45xswWdw6uSWihhblkygDUrVhcpKfgfwsfCsHtwZXcOszmJuUxehJLtf-5d_2j49ekCv7A1knLujCqSf2hLTWdVmYzfhdU4L5D51G/s2040/29791901_10157203788014018_7735141679534964736_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2040" data-original-width="1520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTgyzqslLHH9EuObhMxaAWtFX90lvaF7LcHKWL7_8KyTH9sbC5ZBynRYIuV_BQUHXS0JLks09Hr4zWGRL9eABe1d45xswWdw6uSWihhblkygDUrVhcpKfgfwsfCsHtwZXcOszmJuUxehJLtf-5d_2j49ekCv7A1knLujCqSf2hLTWdVmYzfhdU4L5D51G/s320/29791901_10157203788014018_7735141679534964736_n.jpg" width="238" /></a></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i> </i></b></div>Teachers, this day more than ever, need good bones</i></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br />Maggie Smith's Poem “Good Bones”<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Life is short, though I keep this from my children.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll keep from my children.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The world is at least<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">estimate, though I keep this from my children.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For every bird, there is a stone thrown at a bird.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">is at least half terrible, and for every kind,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">stranger, there is one who would break you,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">though I keep this from my children. <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">walking you through a real shithole, chirps on<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">about good bones: This place could be beautiful,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">right? <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">You could make this place beautiful.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dear Sister and Brother Teachers, there is a great need for us out there today ~ we have to help our future teachers see the "Good Bones" in Teaching. My future teachers (currently in their field experiences) are sharing your tragic narratives in their journals. Let's be transparent, without a doubt ~ these are tough days! These are cry your heart out days! But in between, there are also these few blessed beautiful days; and so on behalf of my students, I'm begging that you be truthful/honest, but please don't forget to share your good teaching days. These brave new young ones, need (and want) to know the truth, but share your whole truth with them ~ remember the times when you too were filled with amazement. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Remember it is not our place to "Rain on their Parade". These (negative) narratives will ensure our present tragic teaching shortage will continue tenfold. Being consistently negative does not serve our future teachers well. Just like us ~ they need balance. No, indeed it is not the job it was in our day, but these young ones "want" to step up and walk in "our shoes". We do not need to turn them away. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">They deserve (in realtor terms...) to hear about "The Good Bones" of teaching, even when the roof leaks, and the boiler is on its last legs. A good realtor will relay the "good bones". Working with Good Bones, our new future teachers can build it anew! I'm not going to "Rain on your parade". Way back in the late 70's my field experience teachers and host teachers showed the good bones of teaching to me. They left me with a feeling that “You could make this place beautiful.” <br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Respectfully, after 40 plus years, I still see GOOD BONES,<br /><br />Dr. Jesse P. Turner </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Badass Teacher</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Good Bones Educator</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Uniting to Save Our Schools <br /><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6mIMQA4J1lQcJ3n1fS3J6qtXeJlqkHktRhOTu2flcUApoigqFaS8wboMuWGd9IoW_krs6S_blIlDAxg-bZ3_rmMb9svVQKxHKINBfvaiyTtPR0LzAEm04yqn2euEaQYOWJ62BRChM8nJW9a9sDhkjoPDF0UdW0IrCpzuzRTUuaqUhBK4VicJF_xlQbxA/s960/46493563_10157862716019018_5986825415782563840_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6mIMQA4J1lQcJ3n1fS3J6qtXeJlqkHktRhOTu2flcUApoigqFaS8wboMuWGd9IoW_krs6S_blIlDAxg-bZ3_rmMb9svVQKxHKINBfvaiyTtPR0LzAEm04yqn2euEaQYOWJ62BRChM8nJW9a9sDhkjoPDF0UdW0IrCpzuzRTUuaqUhBK4VicJF_xlQbxA/w640-h480/46493563_10157862716019018_5986825415782563840_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">On the left is West Michigan State Univerity Good Bonres Brother Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b>Julian Vasquez Heilig</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my writing this Good Bones Morning, it is </span></span><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-size-adjust: auto; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="YouTube Sans, Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #0f0f0f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-weight: normal;">Miley Cyrus - The Climb > </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs</a> <</span></span><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></h1></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-14856178195125753632023-10-03T13:04:00.006-04:002023-10-04T10:02:11.592-04:00Tiny changes, change everything <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> When I was at my darkest moment as a child, homeless, cold, and hungry. I said Momma this world stinks...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">She said it can change, at 11 years old an angry cynical me...said no one can change the world....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Momma said if we can't change the world, then maybe we can change a small piece of it. Then she brought us three donuts...in that moment my world changed, the anger broke, and the cynic in me died. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">What I did not know, was the donut money she used was her bus fare for work...she would walk 5 miles the next morning to work. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Son, I wish I could change the world. Momma taught me, that changing the world starts with changing a tiny piece of it first. It begins with you and me. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tomorrow, my LLA 440 Pre-Service Teachers and are traveling to Chamberlain Elementary School in New Britain Connecticut to help celebrate Hispanic Heritage. These are the shirts our Center for Community Engagement and Social Research gave us, along with 1350 dollars for books for our teachers and Chamberlain's new library. <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiizKtgcekZ_tRQpxH6lUu9RjNbu4nk2tM7avii1aZUbqyBF_RvH3Yfj-MuYwILq7D0caDPNrt_DYyGL6HUHo74lpqwWGI6lenLuwkx-zYTybeKzBekUqefmzeg5tJD_rOV3oyDAuB9JJ1fWXWwlLosvc11x7lMxaenyLNOxZIs5O7lUOX148zOf_X2qj-a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="2988" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiizKtgcekZ_tRQpxH6lUu9RjNbu4nk2tM7avii1aZUbqyBF_RvH3Yfj-MuYwILq7D0caDPNrt_DYyGL6HUHo74lpqwWGI6lenLuwkx-zYTybeKzBekUqefmzeg5tJD_rOV3oyDAuB9JJ1fWXWwlLosvc11x7lMxaenyLNOxZIs5O7lUOX148zOf_X2qj-a=w400-h221" width="400" /></a></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />It is a win-win for all, my pre-service teachers get to combine Culturally Relevant Teaching, Literacy, and Service. Chamberlain children get to hear cool stories and Hispanic Heritage. They have mixed some about stories about horic heroes, and others about fun and love in Hispanic families. Everybody wins, and I get to change a tiny piece of the world in honor of my mother. <br /><br />James Baldwin said about writing and literature: <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"> </span>This is why Literacy Professors write.</span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXD4vjDB5oZPLHCctevFnV-iMl3OwlPj7-ZsGwLh5gUB8qerhVZ8WzXb_2DGjw108By3Xo4F7YDz8F22KPm5ihre3kr5sjB9g7XE2mKX9OVcJS_90FRYB6OidH3N-VtqxjYGJCU0bbrJJ75vrl1BAFTrHkcN3Uk2NDC1e4BlRNUEdxJRUnJMYzERUgfuLZ/s2868/Screenshot%202023-10-03%20at%201.02.09%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1646" data-original-width="2868" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXD4vjDB5oZPLHCctevFnV-iMl3OwlPj7-ZsGwLh5gUB8qerhVZ8WzXb_2DGjw108By3Xo4F7YDz8F22KPm5ihre3kr5sjB9g7XE2mKX9OVcJS_90FRYB6OidH3N-VtqxjYGJCU0bbrJJ75vrl1BAFTrHkcN3Uk2NDC1e4BlRNUEdxJRUnJMYzERUgfuLZ/w640-h368/Screenshot%202023-10-03%20at%201.02.09%20PM.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One Mother's sacrifice and one donut change my world, I pay it back every day </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">One tiny change at a time changes everything,</span></p><p>Dr. Jesse P. Turner </p><p>Central Literacy Center Director </p><div><br /></div><div>If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my blog this afternoon its <span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;">Big Sean - "One Man Can Change The World" ft. Kanye West, John Legend</span><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">> </span><span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15);"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVotNefYME">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVotNefYME</a> <</span></span><br /><br /></yt-formatted-string></h1><br /></div>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-57365554785374398502023-10-03T07:28:00.007-04:002023-10-03T12:10:18.396-04:00A New Moon Shot Equity in 10<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinRxRAHuySekcF2ZhZQYpXZpTfQJ6MI58z0nhp3qbK1n_bwOmB9cX5rQjFdRtrtg4JU-s2tvxcERE9pkXRBnMJ3NQlXtuBX5-SeLJ3Ywvb5-R6pl9nA-PbZljoaY-Of7k_olHuUn3P1HYwZTg6mW_DQPEAkcs4iE5BLMs_PiAd4vZK8tru8q0RDmmswUAt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinRxRAHuySekcF2ZhZQYpXZpTfQJ6MI58z0nhp3qbK1n_bwOmB9cX5rQjFdRtrtg4JU-s2tvxcERE9pkXRBnMJ3NQlXtuBX5-SeLJ3Ywvb5-R6pl9nA-PbZljoaY-Of7k_olHuUn3P1HYwZTg6mW_DQPEAkcs4iE5BLMs_PiAd4vZK8tru8q0RDmmswUAt=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In 2010, I walked 400 miles from Connecticut to DC, because high stakes testing abuse was killing the joy and creativity in our public schools. In 2015, I walked it because high states testing and inequity were turning our public schools for Black, Brown, Special Education, and Poor children into a School to Prison Pipeline. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After my September radio show, my guests, and I shared a dream. In 2024, I propose state walks for equity, and equity report cards for legislators. This April 4, 2024, on the anniversary of Dr. King’s Assignation A small group of believers in change shall walk 12 miles from CCSU the first school of education in Connecticut to Hartford our state Capitol. What if small groups in all 50 states did the same. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What if we issue equity report cards that failed this School to Prison Pipeline, gave states 10 years to make it right, came back each year with updated report cards. John F. Kennedy said we will put a man on the moon by the end of a decade, and we did. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am proposing a new moon shoot, a moral challenge to end 170-plus years of inequity and injustice in our schools. change it not a title wave, it is a cracking that brings the whole house down. Dare, we dream a new brave world...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are the small cracks rejecting the silence and apathy of an immoral School-to-Prison Pipeline status quo,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Uniting to Save Our Schools</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Still True Badass Teacher</div><div><br /></div></div>If you like to listen to the tune that inspired me this morning at sunrise, its the cover of Crosby, Stills and Nash's Teacher Your Children by Play for Change. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIx55cFf-o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIx55cFf-o</a></div><p>And if you are bored, and want to listen to the radio show that spark this moon shot..<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/wnhhradio/videos/6590115427739825">https://www.facebook.com/wnhhradio/videos/6590115427739825 </a><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi79NuFzlFjq-nUQ_9mygVhlA8q7THQDnd_sjh4NQqIGtwTHVBcct1pu6CP69RqSGROPMbgXxPEKHPkVvIgPBN6EE6xlzPgnDoJBHXaPaPwM2B0qESiUrLiRS31l62kfrHkUqpf8p142U1QFCR7VjIbBHB3jojsrSI0Ym6QguYy4mcQd6zJUz7cEMqQDvtf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1405" data-original-width="2048" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi79NuFzlFjq-nUQ_9mygVhlA8q7THQDnd_sjh4NQqIGtwTHVBcct1pu6CP69RqSGROPMbgXxPEKHPkVvIgPBN6EE6xlzPgnDoJBHXaPaPwM2B0qESiUrLiRS31l62kfrHkUqpf8p142U1QFCR7VjIbBHB3jojsrSI0Ym6QguYy4mcQd6zJUz7cEMqQDvtf=w501-h254" width="501" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLu4QehUNBr809xM1l4UMjcP55Jt_xRAmpZW69HVGw7a8Dr_EImKyV7zE-4SzouM-rm0oV-mg2UUiEuRiefqDjOunY6Zsg0BwiKM6hfP7at9ns4NOxHdgUP5bzAn233vNyR_EAXguFjEbSkgPbzzQK5szVqaFbAl3waEyoJDG1CjAFH_VXO1b4icKdZNrz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLu4QehUNBr809xM1l4UMjcP55Jt_xRAmpZW69HVGw7a8Dr_EImKyV7zE-4SzouM-rm0oV-mg2UUiEuRiefqDjOunY6Zsg0BwiKM6hfP7at9ns4NOxHdgUP5bzAn233vNyR_EAXguFjEbSkgPbzzQK5szVqaFbAl3waEyoJDG1CjAFH_VXO1b4icKdZNrz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLu4QehUNBr809xM1l4UMjcP55Jt_xRAmpZW69HVGw7a8Dr_EImKyV7zE-4SzouM-rm0oV-mg2UUiEuRiefqDjOunY6Zsg0BwiKM6hfP7at9ns4NOxHdgUP5bzAn233vNyR_EAXguFjEbSkgPbzzQK5szVqaFbAl3waEyoJDG1CjAFH_VXO1b4icKdZNrz=w441-h240" width="441" /></a></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-76488843887962768102023-09-28T14:36:00.005-04:002023-09-28T15:03:38.203-04:00How does America demonstrate our love of children color in our schools? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwpJ7ADYLAAwika7ZVHKBDLyeswyXYWqHaCr5riDiOcQIISzMbJL2_31a7tY6lc0uDERbt9FuwkyZUYllq0DuI8tnJigfySwM99goSjZ4t2wxoV-oM8ICursZVK4BVwEqaZEZhsRWiN7QD2aA-vYuPfJyIv8uuq_mMFJjYxc_vxFCClKGq2lY4lzNqNk1/s312/Unknown.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="312" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwpJ7ADYLAAwika7ZVHKBDLyeswyXYWqHaCr5riDiOcQIISzMbJL2_31a7tY6lc0uDERbt9FuwkyZUYllq0DuI8tnJigfySwM99goSjZ4t2wxoV-oM8ICursZVK4BVwEqaZEZhsRWiN7QD2aA-vYuPfJyIv8uuq_mMFJjYxc_vxFCClKGq2lY4lzNqNk1/w640-h394/Unknown.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS2iJJv2p0rHwwRgRO7IgiJbNxpTKwPPllEcPy5K06wDnpLV6GcqQB4Vw1YK_TbCfuF30bcqux8wl18osls-KeCx7gG8-Z04sBLcGK841_CBI5FNRXXfKJCDNTB5XEUwjN2ZAhq-UEYYRhb61A4R6018uEaTZzZE3TX_9kNJ8A632-JAS-LhVZSUG96qFB/s960/360103503_10162810381454018_5225951219139532044_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="960" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS2iJJv2p0rHwwRgRO7IgiJbNxpTKwPPllEcPy5K06wDnpLV6GcqQB4Vw1YK_TbCfuF30bcqux8wl18osls-KeCx7gG8-Z04sBLcGK841_CBI5FNRXXfKJCDNTB5XEUwjN2ZAhq-UEYYRhb61A4R6018uEaTZzZE3TX_9kNJ8A632-JAS-LhVZSUG96qFB/w640-h530/360103503_10162810381454018_5225951219139532044_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Maya Angelou said: “If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No matter what you hear, Literacy is complicated, it includes essential skills, but so much more. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At our Central Literacy Center, we meet children where they are, follow the data, and work hard to create a deep sense of caring. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Every child receives one-to-one tutoring from a fully certified teacher here. Our children come from different school districts, some can have this level of support at their local public schools, but most attend schools that lack the funds to do this. Caring requires funding and resources. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What is not complex is that Wealthy predominantly white schools have the necessary funding and renounces needed, and children attending schools in communities of color seldom have the funds or resources needed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We can't blame poor school districts or their teachers. We can blame America the richest nation in the world whose school funding formula supports inequality. Our children's learning conditions are their teacher's working conditions. We cannot blame children, families, or teachers who attend or work in underfunded and under-resourced schools. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Nel Noddings: American feminist, educationalist, and philosopher best known for her work in the philosophy of education said: “My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. What is an America that spends roughly 23 billion dollars every year on predominately wealthy white schools than on poor schools in communities of color? It certainly isn’t that we care for all America's children! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I know why caged birds sing,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Central Literacy Center Director</div><div><br /></div></div>If you like to listen to what inspired me it is TRUTH. link for a clip of me talking about inequity in our schools on Brainwaves Anthologies on YouTube <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I am tired of reading wars that imagine that inequality, systemic racism, and lack of funding does not matter. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" />><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLJzMZDTkrk&ab_channel=TheBrainwavesVideoAnthology"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLJzMZDTkrk&ab_channel=TheBrainwavesVideoAnthology</a> <<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxk9_Cb6sy12nVHVwbO9yfsNxIeSz7qt3ieKdM0UiAorHRRo8-3qsEdJIkKX06LnuPbD8eNLQrr2cGu-oJg8rxcrBDVyFKHRxuYC7L9set7DniqnPTMPq1pSi-QTgduymD5z-_BIXTjUK__Cpof7o4yJfzKUnYdqIBSjem8jodWSqFMnMzWMk2s-TeeQJA/s960/360103503_10162810381454018_5225951219139532044_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="960" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxk9_Cb6sy12nVHVwbO9yfsNxIeSz7qt3ieKdM0UiAorHRRo8-3qsEdJIkKX06LnuPbD8eNLQrr2cGu-oJg8rxcrBDVyFKHRxuYC7L9set7DniqnPTMPq1pSi-QTgduymD5z-_BIXTjUK__Cpof7o4yJfzKUnYdqIBSjem8jodWSqFMnMzWMk2s-TeeQJA/w640-h436/360103503_10162810381454018_5225951219139532044_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am the broken record of truth in our public schools </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-69798520910197350452023-09-24T21:22:00.003-04:002023-09-25T10:05:33.302-04:00I choose to not get on your Ed Reform Merry Go Round <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpWl80GZc-WJ92Peb5vUdG9ew_acThePMiBfka0ryKa38BGDQlLWa2mLAad-xj1I671mFHZ6cI6AvryIvG4TSOOXymSu3g5ikeT_FwVjCtDzzh8gXIs0Xu-IUk28NmUcHwcAczhNKjufxbopWh-XzS6npt_Cpvub1l1Tf_-uR7ZMeokAibLgZ2UGeLgPov" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpWl80GZc-WJ92Peb5vUdG9ew_acThePMiBfka0ryKa38BGDQlLWa2mLAad-xj1I671mFHZ6cI6AvryIvG4TSOOXymSu3g5ikeT_FwVjCtDzzh8gXIs0Xu-IUk28NmUcHwcAczhNKjufxbopWh-XzS6npt_Cpvub1l1Tf_-uR7ZMeokAibLgZ2UGeLgPov=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />When education reformers, policymakers, and Wall Street say choice, read between the lines. For they have already made a choice. To place profits before our children. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Merry-Go-Round of school reform money tree shouts:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">New tests,<span> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Charter Schools,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Magnet Schools,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">State takeovers,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Google classrooms,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chrome books,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Drive-by-teacher alternative programs,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">New Rigorous Standards, <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">New Fail Proof Curriculums.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Blame:<br />Parents,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Students,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Teachers,<br />Schools,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Blame everyone, <br />Except those making hundreds of billions of dollars running the Merry-Go-Round.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Look everywhere but at those making profits, giving campaign contributions, and sweet jobs to family and political allies,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They love the teacher blamers,<br />Children are falling because teachers didn’t teach them right,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Don’t worry parents for a few billion we can fix it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Time to Look behind that great OZ Curtain,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Where we discover rich white kids always get more, <br />Black, Brown, Poor, and Special children get less. <br />Much, much, much less,<br />23 Billion dollars every year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now these Ed Refromers want teachers to take sides in their reading wars.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I can hear that cash register of a status quo ringing,<br />A school-to-prison pipeline that profits from 5 until death.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">How about we do something different?<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Radical,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Fair,<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Humane.<br />Children, Teachers, and Parents shout ENOUGH,<br />EQUITY now!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have an idea, and it won't cost a penny more.<br />We can take that 23 Billion Dollars extra spent annually on Wealthy Predominately White Schools, and spend it on our children in our poor school districts. You know the children who America has given less to for over 170 years.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's time to close their merry-go-round down.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my blog today its Adrea Day's "Rise Up" > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnv6qLWPy4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnv6qLWPy4</a> <<br /></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb3WaThHcj79dxMV5AHvhEeI1bDotZKQxSGIomR0OJApPU1lXdxy1NZZDtDdI11-09fTsxRaIUvmJ6nOHCXAM8SoGbd-Bi-Sz4Ltc5_KGJYBVwUixA8aJYnYOfga-inwOYv7IZZbW-bV2BJGeWE_ICZ-uHUiHKisy3ubKT2iIZ2awEdWkzYsTknc9_f2VR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="162" data-original-width="312" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb3WaThHcj79dxMV5AHvhEeI1bDotZKQxSGIomR0OJApPU1lXdxy1NZZDtDdI11-09fTsxRaIUvmJ6nOHCXAM8SoGbd-Bi-Sz4Ltc5_KGJYBVwUixA8aJYnYOfga-inwOYv7IZZbW-bV2BJGeWE_ICZ-uHUiHKisy3ubKT2iIZ2awEdWkzYsTknc9_f2VR=w640-h332" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><div><br /></div>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-33188366177413833102023-09-22T06:31:00.012-04:002023-09-26T09:39:34.533-04:00Teaching is my calling, and so is my activism <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKOg7Ts89_nc8qiNyv_5DNAELGCOAb27HFe5X44ijEgyo_vJ_O45vApccrNn8zsTRhdVuvrWG-1FLezJAi43Nhzb3uFsIQS7upyXNuWC6t3GiOFAxk0nvPf6VDZkh2jvh4eDzCgsL8XEIfShwNLCNSPioQVXNCjFUO_LRZA0lJKY8i0JMBpulwakj6pWIb/s2958/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-26%20at%209.37.52%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="2958" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKOg7Ts89_nc8qiNyv_5DNAELGCOAb27HFe5X44ijEgyo_vJ_O45vApccrNn8zsTRhdVuvrWG-1FLezJAi43Nhzb3uFsIQS7upyXNuWC6t3GiOFAxk0nvPf6VDZkh2jvh4eDzCgsL8XEIfShwNLCNSPioQVXNCjFUO_LRZA0lJKY8i0JMBpulwakj6pWIb/w640-h166/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-26%20at%209.37.52%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">As an academic, my articles and chapters are seldom read. As an activist, my blog reaches thousands every month. My activist message is simple, all I ever wanted to do is teach, but injustice got in my way. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I find myself fighting inequity and injustice in our public schools has become my main focus. This is something I never imagined when I first entered into the profession. I naively thought research mattered more than my activism. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thankfully, I was an activist before I became a teacher. It is this endless activist well that enables me to teach these days. Words are not enough to win this battle, but they do help.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am an Old School Teacher,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I teach,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I march,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I stand up, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I speak up,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I put my body on the picket line,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I turn up,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I reject apathy and silence,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I stand up for the rights of all in and out of my classroom,<br /><br />I am inspired by the thousands who read,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am Dr. Jesse P. Turner the Walking Man</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Uniting to Save Our Schools</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Can't be silenced Badass Teacher<br /><br />If you like to listen to the song that inspires my blog this morning at 5:am its John Legend's "Preach" > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0r1AJMK79g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0r1AJMK79g</a> <</span></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-71428988142735400022023-09-21T16:30:00.002-04:002023-09-21T16:30:32.480-04:00I know why they call it the school to prison pipeline <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIJU4CHFY90KmxE8gH_eYxClsETyglvDl6wY85TZeyU9iPwcmAFtfteTMSKwlkxhIgzlDk2mSPxN4zILtsCXSr6grx11NLeMk_xS1S8gysZ6D6RTuSVXNpx0odEwTHqxUfGUCgRRSJFXYgNt5yLIwuoL3fTE4Xgwn67jHXI7U9i6dgXofjtUeE2t-qnaJ6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1219" data-original-width="945" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIJU4CHFY90KmxE8gH_eYxClsETyglvDl6wY85TZeyU9iPwcmAFtfteTMSKwlkxhIgzlDk2mSPxN4zILtsCXSr6grx11NLeMk_xS1S8gysZ6D6RTuSVXNpx0odEwTHqxUfGUCgRRSJFXYgNt5yLIwuoL3fTE4Xgwn67jHXI7U9i6dgXofjtUeE2t-qnaJ6=w496-h640" width="496" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">I know why they call it the school-to-prison pipeline.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of the hardest realities as Director of our Central Literacy Center is seeing the vast inequality of specialized services children receive. Children from affluent predominately white school districts have an abundance of specialized Tier 3, (one-to-one) support services. These children are easy to help, and often just need an extra push. In our center, every struggling receives the same level of support, one-on-one with a certified teacher twice a week. Equity is real here. Children come from surrounding communities, some from poor ones, and others from wealthy ones. No one pays anything, actually, our teachers pay 6000 dollars to complete their final 6 credits for their advance degree to become a Literacy Specialist. They provide services equivalent to 6000 dollars free to two children for 15 weeks. That equity is not the reality for Connecticut Public Schools. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now, our children from poor predominately communities of color wait years for specialized services, and seldom if ever get those desperately needing one-to-one services. This places them far behind their peers. This is heartbreaking, unfair, and a direct result of inequality and not fully funding our public schools.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is not acceptable, spending 23 billion dollars more On wealthy predominately white schools every year is immoral. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Enough is enough education reform mumble jumbo from policymakers and legislators, it is these vast inequities that are holding our children in communities of color back. This fault cannot be placed upon our teachers or our poor school districts. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Let me call out whose feet this blame can be placed on, a state that refuses to take responsibility for a school funding formula that fails any equity smell test. I call this out as blatant RACISM. Vast inequality in the richest state in the union is morally UNACCEPTABLE. Trust me this is not just Connecticut, this is all 50 states. How many years must past before Black, Brown, Poor and Special Education Children are given an equal chance? The answer is blowing in the wind. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I reject silence and indifference,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Central Literacy Center Director
If you like to listen to the tune that inspired today's blog...its the cover of "Blowing in the Wind' by Peter, Paul and Mary.</span> > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI</a> <</span>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-44036574333394095192023-09-19T15:17:00.006-04:002023-09-19T15:19:48.682-04:00Hispanic Heritage is for everyone <p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyuRMF90kT5Q_9ACPC0gUoxlsOMNLzJvBNJSbg01zr8VmcvuNcFPe0UFw_htNPD3lnC7ovs3nIq7hQU6_ACB1La_w91NpcRza_40bpePEwvY-Vc80UQ256ltLXyKE3gK3i7tmWk4SFv3L-J9VASVXcyUtBSLckZRtTC4ZjkNGn2yBmyHyD9dkHeZmt9kJ-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1100" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyuRMF90kT5Q_9ACPC0gUoxlsOMNLzJvBNJSbg01zr8VmcvuNcFPe0UFw_htNPD3lnC7ovs3nIq7hQU6_ACB1La_w91NpcRza_40bpePEwvY-Vc80UQ256ltLXyKE3gK3i7tmWk4SFv3L-J9VASVXcyUtBSLckZRtTC4ZjkNGn2yBmyHyD9dkHeZmt9kJ-=w640-h316" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div>Hispanic Heritage is for everyone</div><div><div>Mrs. Sanchez my Spanish teacher is high school brought the life of Cesar Chavez to us. She taught Spanish, but the world was her textbook. While we were learning our Spanish, we were also learning about great contributions to art, literature, science, Human Rights, and music. she connected the dots of human rights across all the continents. She wanted us to see the beauty of language and of the people who speak it. Some of the cool kids thought she was corny, me I knew better, she was amazing. I was blessed with incredible teachers across all subject areas. </div><div><br /></div><div>I knew "Sí se puede", before President Obama ran for office, and so did he. Cesar, taught President Obama and Dr. Turner, that peaceful action can breakdown walls of injustice; Yes, it can be done.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our teachers taught us about Cesar Chavez. I learned that in 1966 he walked with strikers on a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to bring awareness to the cause of farmworkers. They taught about every Civil Rights activist that ever lived, the made sure we saw the connections between standing up for right and education. It was never about a job; it was always much bigger.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, decades later in 2010, influenced by Cesar Chavez's walk, I decided to walk 400 miles from Connecticut to Washington DC to bring awareness to abusive high-stakes testing in our public schools. In 2015, I would walk it again protesting high-stakes testing and inequality in our public schools. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our teachers taught us about Civil Rights Activists like Cesar Chavez hoping those stories would inspire our own stories. They taught us there is no American History without, Hispanic Heritage, Black History, Women's History, Immigrations and Labor. America's story is all our stories. American History is all our stories, and everyday all our stories are relevant. </div><div><br /></div><div>Guess what teachers teaching students about Civil Right? </div><div>Works, Dr. Jesse P. Turner</div><div>Central Literacy Center Director</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg854gdYBSFqorMhW9L3JsNL0qLAVCAEzSl2PZ4JDn3JI2oS7gaouTvndXm672_7NkrDUG--HH-ik0aKzuXsIm4GMS8T2IM3uReWRxhs5jYFFKUAoQr3MFC6yt96AtTneX9WWWxim1GPAhmhz4AkxTov76B9xFelZelQPgIasXa8uvgirjJajIIY5iL1nB8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="2374" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg854gdYBSFqorMhW9L3JsNL0qLAVCAEzSl2PZ4JDn3JI2oS7gaouTvndXm672_7NkrDUG--HH-ik0aKzuXsIm4GMS8T2IM3uReWRxhs5jYFFKUAoQr3MFC6yt96AtTneX9WWWxim1GPAhmhz4AkxTov76B9xFelZelQPgIasXa8uvgirjJajIIY5iL1nB8" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just in case you like to listen to the song that moved me today...its Barry Lane's Jesse Turner is a walking man trip down memory lane 2015 400 miles to DC<br /> > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWx8YRTs4I&t=3s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWx8YRTs4I&t=3s</a> < </div><br /><br /><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-31404879287033603472023-09-12T11:54:00.000-04:002023-09-12T11:54:03.262-04:00Teachers know where the gold is! <p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy1z6j0HGeHQ_w7y37BfbcIIicLEygYLUOdaYZgdqkncMz0C8lOcjBA8miGRQK89Jza7SobrhI5kQy29y7ON3MBEi7AQP9z1EHfkemGfIpVI8ODPzog1TEvAQQTiqHfCDRnM8RlASA5lY4faneMOLOUM-WP5VVL5obyToAngnCeRiM7mBxpbhhk53Xalx8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="2374" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy1z6j0HGeHQ_w7y37BfbcIIicLEygYLUOdaYZgdqkncMz0C8lOcjBA8miGRQK89Jza7SobrhI5kQy29y7ON3MBEi7AQP9z1EHfkemGfIpVI8ODPzog1TEvAQQTiqHfCDRnM8RlASA5lY4faneMOLOUM-WP5VVL5obyToAngnCeRiM7mBxpbhhk53Xalx8=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />It is important to follow the data. However, there is the data that matters, and there is the data that really matters. The data that policymakers, administrators, and the media consider important is important. However, the data that really matters comes from teachers who spend 5 days a week in the presence of the children they teach. There are only so many hours in a school day. So much is demanded of teachers that does not fit within the school day. This is one of the reasons we are losing young teachers. Too much to do with not enough time to do it. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Policymakers and education reformers have our teachers using expensive and time-consuming online data collecting tools. Our teachers are chasing data, they already know. When people ask me who knows a child best. I always say the people closest to them, their parents, and teachers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rather than have our teachers following their authentic real time observational data and intuitive understandings of the children they teach. We force them to engage in time consuming repetitious data, that has them second guessing what they already know. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">From my work with classroom teachers, this online data consumes 10 to 15 hours a week. 10 to 15 hours that use to be spent on finding ways to motivate learners. and with the demands of teaching today. We are losing experienced and new teachers because they are not given the time to act on the data that really matters. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Teachers not only see the numbers, but they also see the child, they have essential knowledge about what motivates the children they teach. What teachers know often takes a back seat to the data policymakers value. I say the data that matters most is the real time observational data teachers have. The data the system often causing them to doubt. Or, feeling as if their voice does not matter. This feeling of doubt and being voiceless is in my opinion the number one reason we are losing experienced teachers today.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those 10-15 hours of online data chasing prevents teachers from acting in real time on that rich Kid Watching Data that Dr. Yetta Goodman told me 30 years is a learning goldmine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Teachers know where the gold is,<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> CCSU Literacy Center Director</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you like to see what inspired my blog today...its Barry Lane's What's Happening in our schools ><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZLqsZzzzo"> </a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZLqsZzzzo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZLqsZzzzo</a> < <br /><br />In case you want more Chuck Barry's "School Days" reminds me of > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHG5-GxI_Es">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHG5-GxI_Es</a> <</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBR0wwoCYeKaC-p2xg6-0bsTBo7P9frGeyTAKqObrQK5FYGGL9vJWj33nJZxescgMp9yFVx6uXjlnsj80hnPlOXiko54H_Vk-btvzi0OyUU3CHpETgJNJWE8VRNuFc9s0uyn6q162G_uXrJTFe81-xFrudgaYfN1HI_bEUxonIxaZl8hY4lei8xjAo3ts/s2046/11084175_10153722971449018_6377797629701015028_o-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBR0wwoCYeKaC-p2xg6-0bsTBo7P9frGeyTAKqObrQK5FYGGL9vJWj33nJZxescgMp9yFVx6uXjlnsj80hnPlOXiko54H_Vk-btvzi0OyUU3CHpETgJNJWE8VRNuFc9s0uyn6q162G_uXrJTFe81-xFrudgaYfN1HI_bEUxonIxaZl8hY4lei8xjAo3ts/w400-h400/11084175_10153722971449018_6377797629701015028_o-COLLAGE.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-78772997255564329372023-09-05T13:09:00.002-04:002023-09-05T13:11:23.971-04:00Feel Spanish Language in your heart and feet <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkKdTqZ-FRiCO6c8jzXoVXWxkphY27ix1s4UmYGZBQYy0zl1ZunlilYfB33efitrsutZHVmPH_zJBM-wj8XP2I7kYJHneEA9lKz18RqW6AzGiZXTULj0Odog13ZUz2mMSDvHmwEBzxY-UhmX3p1sjBs-GCqQEjsfeo2O0L6ILUORzzrPuKgUoCnZPYUyr/s1480/people-dancing-salsa-bachata-dance-flat-vector-illustration-isolated_181313-3355.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="1480" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkKdTqZ-FRiCO6c8jzXoVXWxkphY27ix1s4UmYGZBQYy0zl1ZunlilYfB33efitrsutZHVmPH_zJBM-wj8XP2I7kYJHneEA9lKz18RqW6AzGiZXTULj0Odog13ZUz2mMSDvHmwEBzxY-UhmX3p1sjBs-GCqQEjsfeo2O0L6ILUORzzrPuKgUoCnZPYUyr/w212-h212/people-dancing-salsa-bachata-dance-flat-vector-illustration-isolated_181313-3355.jpg" width="212" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkKdTqZ-FRiCO6c8jzXoVXWxkphY27ix1s4UmYGZBQYy0zl1ZunlilYfB33efitrsutZHVmPH_zJBM-wj8XP2I7kYJHneEA9lKz18RqW6AzGiZXTULj0Odog13ZUz2mMSDvHmwEBzxY-UhmX3p1sjBs-GCqQEjsfeo2O0L6ILUORzzrPuKgUoCnZPYUyr/s1480/people-dancing-salsa-bachata-dance-flat-vector-illustration-isolated_181313-3355.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="1480" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkKdTqZ-FRiCO6c8jzXoVXWxkphY27ix1s4UmYGZBQYy0zl1ZunlilYfB33efitrsutZHVmPH_zJBM-wj8XP2I7kYJHneEA9lKz18RqW6AzGiZXTULj0Odog13ZUz2mMSDvHmwEBzxY-UhmX3p1sjBs-GCqQEjsfeo2O0L6ILUORzzrPuKgUoCnZPYUyr/w212-h212/people-dancing-salsa-bachata-dance-flat-vector-illustration-isolated_181313-3355.jpg" width="212" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I teach future and current teachers in Connecticut. During our first Disciplinary Literacy Class last week; I asked students to share their best and worst teachers. I shared Mr. Bass, when I was broken and homeless, he fed me lunch, and made sure I had a winter coat and gloves. He brought me back to the world of the living via his humanity. Teachers do these things every day.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This course is taken just before our Pre-Service teachers do the Student-Teaching. This semester I have Spanish, History, Teach Education, and English teachers. The sharing is about sharing the character traits of good teaching. For some strange reason, many students came down on their former Spanish teachers this day. On Wednesday, my plan is to share two teachers, one is Father Fitzgerald, (Parish Priest) and Mrs. Sanchez my favorite Spanish Teacher. Father Fitzgerald story is about some of our best teachers don’t teach in a classroom, but outside the schoolhouse. Mrs. Sanchez is about a language teacher who knew before you learn a language you have to feel it in your heart. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mrs. Sanchez, open her class with Las niñas y los niños sienten español en sus corazones: [girls and boys, we feel Spanish in our heart not our head]. My oral Spanish speaking skills were lacking. I did well on homework assignments, quizzes, and tests, but my Spanish speaking skills were as broken as it gets. Mrs. Sanchez, said don’t worry about how you say it Jesse, your work shows me you can read and write Spanish. She had a way of helping us accept our limitations, and helping us see our strengths. I aced her classes, and learn to dance and feel Spanish in my heart. Mrs. Sanchez would end class with “Todos levántense, sientan español en el corazón y en los pies, es hora de bailar” [Everybody up, and feel Spanish in your heart and feet. It is time to dance]. She, place a record her record player, either some Falmenco, Mambo, Conga, or Salsa, and we flet Spanish in our feet and heart. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mrs. Sánchez, put Spanish in my heart and feet. She taught with her love of Spanish, and her students. Like, Mr. Bass, Father Fitz, and Mrs. Sánchez they did more to prepare me to be a teacher; then many of the research studies at the university. Time to remind these soon to be teachers, it is less about what we teach, and more about how we teach. Can't wait to see my Spanish teachers smile tomorrow. Humanity is every teacher's super power. Great teachers lead with humanity every day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This one is for you Mrs. Sánchez, and all you wonderful feel it in your heart Spanish Teachers.</span></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text" style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: -2px; margin-top: -2px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 0.14em 2px 0px; position: relative; resize: none; text-wrap: wrap; width: 270px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="es">Gracias, <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>Dr. Jesse P. Turner <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text" style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: -2px; margin-top: -2px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 0.14em 2px 0px; position: relative; resize: none; text-wrap: wrap; width: 270px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Literacy Profesora, </span></pre><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you like to dance to the tune that inspire my blog today...its </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;">Fania All Stars ft Oscar D'Leon, Milly Quezada, El Canario and others yo Soy La Salsa </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> > </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqGyeJgT6E" style="font-family: georgia;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqGyeJgT6E</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> < </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigEGlsBEE6pdV5tWP9smzHrQVQcVpJi72dvI3_oZwjfSNe38aILn-3ICYEAWMkBn4AO6BqwhGXFOOVnDesjBShEV6Tmy_agNJcdmr9p8Rt0I53xrFvw_lXoEbGdPGvKIbhIRiXWiVf5YgYKSZhV9TVZwBEFOyRlEby4yt_5lhWg7KgFrJlG05TQyvHf7E0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="2374" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigEGlsBEE6pdV5tWP9smzHrQVQcVpJi72dvI3_oZwjfSNe38aILn-3ICYEAWMkBn4AO6BqwhGXFOOVnDesjBShEV6Tmy_agNJcdmr9p8Rt0I53xrFvw_lXoEbGdPGvKIbhIRiXWiVf5YgYKSZhV9TVZwBEFOyRlEby4yt_5lhWg7KgFrJlG05TQyvHf7E0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-79811869385569054472023-08-17T20:07:00.003-04:002023-08-18T13:26:40.594-04:00Teacher Shortage Crisis: You can't fill a pail with holes in the bottom with water <p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A 3 minute clip about this teacher shortage crisis. <br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwqf6ggWckiava2EUXdoQeUzjeFUxaXEhCQFTm8YjdWUvGLluOzt1eUcQxjqWEgs2qf5rrh5a-7p2idMNMmdQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I am at our CCSU Literacy Center, researching and preparing for tomorrow's 103.5 FM Tom Ficklin New Haven radio show, 98/17/23). This is a continued conversation on the Teacher Shortage Crisis. This will be a conversation with great teachers with decades of experience who are passionately concerned about the future of their profession and public schools. Education is a field where policymakers, Education Reformers, and legislators seldom turn to teachers, parents, and children for answers. In my opinion this is the major weakness that has driven 40 plus years of failed education reforms in America. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">What exactly is a Teacher Shortage Crisis? In simple economic term is it an issue of Supply and Demand. Supply is the amount of a specific goods or services available in the market. Demand is the amount of the goods or services available. Teaching is not goods; teaching is a service. Teacher salary fact: "The average weekly wages of public-school teachers, adjusted for inflation, increased just $29 from 1996 to 2021 — from $1,319 up to $1,348. Teachers have consistently earned less than their non-teacher, college-educated counterparts, and that wage penalty was found in all 50 states and Washington, D.C." Teachers today make less than teachers in 1996" (https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/08/17/us-teacher-pay-wage-gap-education-public-schools-decades). However money alone is not the sole issue. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">While teachers are leaving the profession at higher rates than at any other time in history, Policymakers, Ed Reformers, and Legislators are mainly focus on growing new teachers. The problem we are having with these efforts, is they have not engaged in serious conversations with potential future teachers. The problem with this approach is in the 1970's nearly 1 in 5 college students wanted to become teachers, today that number is down to 4%. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now consider this during COVID 300000 teachers left teaching. Filling that gap with 4% would take decades to fill. We simply can’t grow enough quickly enough to end this shortage. We must find ways to keep the current teachers in our classrooms as well. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are many reasons young people are choosing not to become teachers, declining pay is just one of them. I The veteran teachers on my show tomorrow believe the answer must involve stemming the exit from teaching. They believe finding ways to entice teachers to stay will help grow new teachers. Our future teachers are front row eye witnesses to teachers who are not only underpaid, but disrespected on numerous levels. They come to our universities with 13 years of witnessing how their teachers were treated. Trust me, they come fully knowing the struggles teachers face. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Returning to Supply and Demand you can’t build supply while you are suffering massive pillages. My analogy is the current teacher shortage solutions are focused on one end of the supply chain. Think about trying to fill a pail with water with holes in the bottom. Addressing this teacher shortage crisis requires fixing the holes first.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hope you join us 8/18.23 at 11:AM EST on 103.5 FM New Haven, ><a href="http://wnhh.org/tfs"> http://wnhh.org/tfs</a> <</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Jesse P. Turner Central Connecticut State University Literacy Center Director <br /><br />If you like to listen to the tune that inspire this post, its the Beatles Fixing A Hole > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRoSJaz-nw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRoSJaz-nw</a> <</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">just in case you want to watch the radio show with teachers talking about how to keep the teachers we already have. Link </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewHavenIndependent/videos/201391319590261">https://www.facebook.com/NewHavenIndependent/videos/201391319590261</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235655313607365412.post-47312071384152476662023-05-03T05:14:00.000-04:002023-05-03T05:14:23.198-04:00JUST SAYING Teacher Appreciation Week<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOHSjEtwhFHst6WgSV3R4k1_ElT5B5oQfHDbKO4krvImUTC7_oEvoxME2ba_OxexUBlfjzFQZKe9AJSqS1xKymVKt8FkU3k-RmzrqoV6cEMP3fZA-HvB8MIcvc8Y2loIWr-yS-ngCTl2VKVS9qDN--83HPUzDFaPxniiBXelJfV2kPnypomv10YmMaQ/s1238/498313B2-092E-41DA-9C1F-CFE777FFA32D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1238" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOHSjEtwhFHst6WgSV3R4k1_ElT5B5oQfHDbKO4krvImUTC7_oEvoxME2ba_OxexUBlfjzFQZKe9AJSqS1xKymVKt8FkU3k-RmzrqoV6cEMP3fZA-HvB8MIcvc8Y2loIWr-yS-ngCTl2VKVS9qDN--83HPUzDFaPxniiBXelJfV2kPnypomv10YmMaQ/w640-h440/498313B2-092E-41DA-9C1F-CFE777FFA32D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>How about we do something different this Teacher Appreciation Week?</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>1. Sates stop requiring advanced degrees you do not pay for,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>2. A real pay increase above inflation for a change,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>3. Stop reducing our pensions and medical benefits,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>4. OMG, stop wasting nearly 2 billion dollars every year on standardized test that have no real instructional value,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>5. Stop trying to speed learning up; it doesn't work,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>6. Try respecting our professional knowledge,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>7. Stop pushing school choice scams without equity,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>8. Stop passing laws to ban the three things that motivate learning, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>9. Almost anything more than; thank you teacher stickers and donuts,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>10. Just let us teach!</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHsXZMiNWikT8CXuGu9N6Hnmz7GNBW7KrYgWeQAWRUtTuf7UmTNoIrbGxuVfkL5j1ZiklEjNN3KcPUXCZCr0dp0XOeBNuuwh9jZm3nLAlz3BonEt_8DSeFp-T2RvYwKyEZl91AAnu791hByd_LuXcqqJB5H2AhEXpWA7DyF2JVWkRKyHyChkIvWU9mw/s2046/11084175_10153722971449018_6377797629701015028_o-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHsXZMiNWikT8CXuGu9N6Hnmz7GNBW7KrYgWeQAWRUtTuf7UmTNoIrbGxuVfkL5j1ZiklEjNN3KcPUXCZCr0dp0XOeBNuuwh9jZm3nLAlz3BonEt_8DSeFp-T2RvYwKyEZl91AAnu791hByd_LuXcqqJB5H2AhEXpWA7DyF2JVWkRKyHyChkIvWU9mw/s320/11084175_10153722971449018_6377797629701015028_o-COLLAGE.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /><i>If you want to listen to the tune that inspired my morning walk today? It is Barry Lane's. +If I'd never had a teacher" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eoMnTesZ90">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eoMnTesZ90 </a></i></b></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Jesse Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02556420250629971130noreply@blogger.com0