Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Public Employee Insurance Pool

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Dear St. Paul Federation of Teachers Community: The Executive Board of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers authorized a vote of the full eli...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Do you like soup?

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Do you like soup? So began the beguiling fund raising pitch of my daughter this time last year. It was the first year that the fund raising ...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Pawlenty of empty education ideas

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I am struggling to understand how a man who can get a law degree and go on to become Governor can be so naive about what it takes to become ...

How that conversation went...

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Monday night a cross section of members from across the district attended the meeting I called to discuss the powerpoint document that Super...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

A Conversation about the Future of St. Paul Schools

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Recently I sent out an invitation for members of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers to attend a meeting tomorrow (4 p.m. at the SPFT office...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

What should school leadership look like?

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Today I am meeting with the AFT's Program and Policy Council and we began our day with this question. It was a valuable discussion becau...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

BIG news, Our Future, and the AFL-CIO

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It seems that the St. Paul Federation of Teachers is surrounded by big news and we are in the thick of just about all of it. First, the Supe...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Ask me

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The coverage of education issues and ideas in the presidential race is inconsistent at best. Probably because both candidates have chosen to...
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Sunday, September 7, 2008

Discipline Toolbox

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So, rumor has it that the teachers in one of our schools have been told that the discipline policy this year is that they are forbidden to s...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008

A Teacher's Answer

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I still find myself steamed at these education reformers who believe that education can be reformed by a rap on your knuckles with a ruler f...