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In Washington, Large Rewards in Teacher Pay
““We want to make great teachers rich,” said Jason Kamras, the district’s chief of human capital.”
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In my classroom students are treated as equals. They have as much to do with the teaching as I do. See our journey on www.mrspripp.blogspot.com
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Tuesday's Thoughts: Why Men (Generally) do not choose to go into Early and Elementary Education and How America may be able to change this...
Many of my classmates, women being over 99% of the early educators in my area, have asked me why there are not more men in early education and my response is always two-fold: men have always been considered the bread or bacon earners, the ones required by society to make the money or have the…
Domesticity
- Student: Ms. K, do you have a safety pin? (while holding up a hat with a little flap that fell in her eyes on the way to school)
- Me: Nope, sorry.
- Student: Are you sure you don't have a safety pin?
- Me: Do you think I'm lying to you? (thinks for a moment) But I do have a needle and a little thread!
- I then proceed to stitch that little flap up so it stayed in place. I was domestic for about three minutes yesterday. On some days, I'm more borderline-temporary mom than teacher.
