Comments on Mr. Chase's Room: I'm Either Insulted or Going Crazy

I cannot agree more with your assessment of what p...

2008-05-13T14:19:00.000-04:00

I cannot agree more with your assessment of what passes as professional development. I am still numb from a session of standardized assessment pd yesterday!
You are definitely on the crazy side, Mr. Chase (but I like it!) It's nice to see you back posting again, dude!

ZachYou'll find that the numbing tedium extends be...

2008-05-10T20:17:00.000-04:00

Zach

You'll find that the numbing tedium extends beyond teacher induction... it infects nearly all teacher professional development. It's not so much about professionalism, but more about risk. As a profession, as a system, education is afraid of risk.

I saw you present at the Penn State conference and you clearly come to education with a positive and refreshing paradigm of what education can be. I hope that you are able to parlay that into continued success at SLA and influence others far beyond.

Here's to the Crazy Ones. ; )

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Zach, I think if your eyes would have bled that it...

2008-05-09T20:06:00.000-04:00

Zach,

I think if your eyes would have bled that it would be a side I had not seen of you. How great you are in the mentoring program and have a chance to make a difference there.

Hmmm... scripted mentoring... sounds like a corporate model...like we are not professionals...

What would it take to break this - to be treated like professionals and move our profession along...

It would be great if the model way we should be teaching were the way we were all treated...

We are all attempting this in our own districts. How do we get this conversation heard?