Red Hen Exploring Our Conditions: Citizen Advocacy: You Can't Fool Us With Your Charter School Lottery Scams

Jesse Turner

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You can't fool me with your charter school lottery scams, your testing until they cry plans, your new more rigorous education reform standards.
13 years of data make your reforms the status quo, 13 years of data indicate your charter schools are the most segregated schools we have, your constant testing has demoralized both children and teachers.
You can't fool me! Your Education Reforms are not civil rights, but violations of human rights.
You can't fool an old marcher, I see you for what you are. You are choice without equity. You are the wrong choice for our children.
Walking To DC,
Jesse

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Red Hen i agree, deepening divide and conquer in low income communities as if we don't have enough distractions in our oppressed communities. who created "choice options" those who pick and choose who they will educate. plotting on the most vulnerable members of our community as slaves to the greed of corporate america. sad how parents are manipulated to believe that they are getting better quality education with privatizing our schools versus advocating for the resources and professional staff needed in learning facilities. sad how we are so broken in low income communities that we don't research the facts and advocate for all in our communities. sad that politicians use tactics that spoil a few of their constituents versus build schools that function for everyone. i keep hearing that the rich buy their schools well the poor can be vested in their schools also if the school districts learned to partner with the demographics that they serve versus trying to mold the demographics. i'm exploring ways to educate our communities about civic responsibility, the rich own their schools because they are actively involved with the schoolhouse in partnership with the school district. vulnerable communities tend to be dependent and that dependency often means lack of knowledge of human rights. i hope that education can by law become a human right and be protected under the international bill of human rights. civil rights comes under those who wish to create civilizations that they are able to control, building prison communities versus safe, productive residential communities, building dependent communities versus growing with talents/dreams denied. so when we talk choice let's talk the choice the parents made when creating their family and how they would choose to provide for them, let's not talk about creating parents who want society to provide their every needs, creating parents who want to live like the rich but won't invest the time to build schoolhouses like the rich, let's talk that education is a human right and should be of a quality that enriches the lives of all, that gives the necessary skills that build safe productive citizens!! public education that addresses the needs of the demographics, needs such as learning opportunities for all, the digital divide is much bigger than mentioned for our teachers are not in the digital world as much as they could or should be. so happy for the workshops being offered at collaboration of educators, who see the need to connect teachers with today's learning toolshttps://www.facebook.com/events/889338361117767/, excited that we will have a table and able to get some testimonies from educators!!

Taking Back Our Professional Development!

Philly Teachers and Community Partners Collaborate on Election Day

Collaboration of Educators at Central High School Index

Days until the event : 9

Number of people registered so far : 254

Number of workshops : 46

Number of resource tables : 26

Philly public schools represented : 27

Charter schools represented : 6

Private schools represented : 2

Colleges and universities represented : 7

Community organizations & educational businesses participating : 33

Parents' organizations participating : 3

Authors presenting : 5

This Election Day, Philadelphia Central High School will open it's doors to educators, community, parents, and students in a truly democratic day of professional development. After hitting the polls in the morning, teachers and guests will exercise their right to choose again. But instead of selecting their favorite candidates, they will select the topics of professional development that will benefit their practice, their students, and the future of a city that depends on a great system of education. It's not the usual top-down district-mandated variety, but a grassroots teacher-led day of creativity and city-wide networking.

Traditionally, school or district administration selects the topics for teacher workdays. While this system can be beneficial in that all teachers receive the same information or instruction, it can also be hampered by a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Five years ago, Central decided to try something a little different; why not ask educators to step in to lead and facilitate the workshops themselves, offer smaller workshops, and let the school staff members choose the topics of interest and best use to them?

There is a vast knowledge base among educators to tap into. Teacher-led workshops provide hands-on, practical information that can be immediately put to use in the classroom by other educators. The opportunity to work in solidarity with community organizations, parents, and students is essential in an environment where educators are under attack and public schools and urban communities are being defunded and stressed. This style of professional collaboration is meaningful, and has a direct and transformative impact in the classroom that goes well beyond the schools.

Timothy McKenna, President of Central High School, believes in this type of professional learning model. “The goal of each session will be for participants to walk away with new tools to support student learning. It is powerful when teachers share best practices with other teachers. Central High School is proud to host such an important day of professional collaboration.”

This year's topics are as varied as they are relevant to the times. Here is a small sample:

Breaking the Screen Door: Technology for Deep Learning

Standardized Testing Panel Facilitated by the Home & School Association

Can Insights from Neuroscience Transform Educational Outcomes?

Solving Big Problems: Research and Estimation in Math and Science

Hip Hop: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Theater Techniques for Reluctant Readers

Understanding and Confronting Structural Racism

Slavery, Complicity, and its Legacy in the Philadelphia Region

LGBTQ Issues in Education

Teaching Ferguson and Beyond

Teaching Tree-Thinking: A Series of Activities for Teaching Evolution

See the complete agenda of over 40 workshops and dozens of resource tables here:

A Collaboration of Educators at Central High School

https://chscollab2015.eventbrite.com

Members of the press are invited to attend the Collaboration of Educators at Central High School.

1700 West Olney Avenue

May 19th

8:00 am to 3:00pm

#CHScollab

Thomas Quinn

Social Studies Department Chair

Director of Professional Development

Central High School, Room 210

1700 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141

215-276-5262

Jesse Walking Man Turner will be walking into Philadelphia from Camden Tuesday July, 7, 2015. we will walk to the liberty bell while pod casting the conversation with parents, students and educators about what public education means to them. leaving the liberty bell to barbecue at lemon hill. there may be several events between the liberty bell and lemon hill!! Please plan to join us!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/297723840427078/365294960336632/