Friday Afternoon Staff Meeting
10/12/2018 As I sit in this meeting, thinking back to using the Lucy Caulkins books with prepacked anecdotes, and listen to this lady drone on about the test and how accurate and valid it is, I can’t help but feel like I’m being replaced. I and my colleagues, as the districts prepare to replace teachers with technicians and then eventually with screens displaying a computer application. As I sit in this meeting, thinking back to using the Lucy Caulkins books with prepacked anecdotes, teaching points, and lesson phrases, listening to this unfortunate lady drone on about the recent standardized test and how accurate and valid it is, I can’t help but feel like I’m being replaced. Not just me, but I and my colleagues, as the districts prepare to replace more and more teachers with technicians, and then eventually with screens displaying a computer application. Any Ray Bradbury fans in the house? I thought there was a lot of research about Wednesdays and how receptive pe...