Meeting in Oakland on school closings

Meeting in Oakland on school closings

On December 5 2019, the Oakland teachers union (OEA) held a 3 PM parents meeting at Jefferson elementary school (called Global Family) to discuss the upcoming school closures. Global Family is the public school that has been forced to cohabit the large Jefferson...

Secretive, Undemocratic Selection of School Administrators

This strategy of controlling, and destroying, public education through secretive, undemocratic selection of school district administrators by expensive corporate “head hunting” firms has become widespread since the Business Roundtable’s (BR) campaign for high stakes...

Team Based Learning

In response to an article in a parents magazine about the value of alternative seating, I wrote this piece about how my research team used team based learning (TBL) in our Teacher Ed undergraduate classes: How teachers use alternative seating to engage students My...