by DianneSalerni | May 27, 2015 | caged graves, The Eighth Day, WIP, writing
I’m writing this blog post to comfort myself more than to inform you, although I hope you might find it informative anyway … or maybe comforting. I’ve come to see this blog as the closest thing I have to a diary, and I often look back through old posts for...
by DianneSalerni | May 20, 2015 | First Impressions
I’m excited to share the news that Marcy Hatch and I have added a new team-member for our First Impressions posts! You’ve all met Marcy by now, hopefully. She’s the author of West of Paradise (WiDo Publishing, 2014), a time-traveling adventure/romance where Tombstone...
by DianneSalerni | May 18, 2015 | PSSA, reading, teaching, testing
This will be the final post in a series of Why I Had to Leave Education … for now. (Until something else sets me off.) When my nephew started third grade at my former school this past fall, my brother-in-law asked me, “What’s this ‘content class’ Joe keeps talking...
by DianneSalerni | May 13, 2015 | education, teaching, testing
If you want a funny and yet completely on-the-mark and disturbing look at standardized testing in our country, you should skip my post and watch this John Oliver clip instead. It’s long, but worth watching all the same. (Hey, my post is long too.) I’m going to...
by DianneSalerni | May 11, 2015 | education, teaching, testing
I haven’t written much on my blog about why I left teaching last year. I meant to. I even have a document in my blog file labeled Why I Had to Leave with a long list of topics to write about. I was furious about being driven out of my profession by the choices made by...