Week 4 Blog

A Day in the Life of a Teacher
http://teachingquality.org/content/blogs/paul-barnwell/day-life-teacherpreneur

This article is one of high interest to me as I am strongly considering hiring a teacher to teach part time and then begin putting together a Community School plan together for our entire district.

In this article a teacher describes a day as a "teacherpreneur". His district has allowed him to teach part time and the rest of his day is spent planning for the district's virtual learning platform. Because this is such a new concept it's no wonder colleagues question whether this teacher really is earning his pay as a "teacher". This article is an example of of the concept of innovation within in the educational environment. In education, we must begin to think as innovators, not traditionalist. Not saying the traditional ways things have been done has no more value, it does. If public education is to keep up with the pace of innovation it MUST begin to think, act and implement as an innovator.

Obama unveils Immigration plan, lifts Deportation Threat for millions
http://teachingquality.org/content/blogs/paul-barnwell/day-life-teacherpreneur

So how does this latest move by our president have anything to do with education? In our public education system we take everyone who needs to be in school. We do not deny students that may or may not have the legal status to remain in our country. I still don't understand how our military will accept immigrants that are not actually US Citizens and allow them to fight and in some cases die for our country. In a district that serves a large population of english learners, primarily those students who were brought by family members to our country, those of us don't understand the fear that many families have due to their legal status. Many of our families limit their participation in our schools so as not to bring attention to themselves because they are not legal residents in our country. Personally, I know this doesn't affect all of our families but to those that do my hope is that they will get more involved in their child's education.