What mattered to teachers this school year

06-15-2011

Guest blog by Gregory Michie/Washington Post

I remember standing at the back of a crowded, sticky-hot gymnasium each June and watching my eighth-grade students graduate. The week leading up to the big day was always a blur of rehearsals and last-minute preparations, so the ceremony itself usually provided a respite -- a moment to reflect on the year that just ended. Each time, familiar questions flashed through my mind: What had we learned in our ten months together? What would the kids hold on to once they’d walked out the school’s doors for the last time? What would I hold on to? What mattered? Of course, that was over a decade ago, before No Child Left Behind had tightened its screws on teachers and students, before the corporate brand of school reform had convinced so many politicians and high-level administrators that anything that counts in education can be counted. (more...)

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