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...
by DianneSalerni | Nov 10, 2014 | teaching, WIP, writing
We’ve had a mild autumn here in Pennsylvania, with t-shirt and sandals weather continuing all the way through October and into November. There have been cold and rainy days here and there, but even my summer annuals are still blooming. My daughter wants to...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 23, 2014 | teaching
Thanks, Robin at Your Daily Dose, for suggesting this format when my mind is too scattered to write cohesively … Here are my final days of teaching in bullet points: When I mentioned in an email to my blogging pal Lenny Lee that I was facing three...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 18, 2014 | teaching, The Eighth Day
It’s June 18th, and I have one week left of being a teacher. Today would have been the end of this school year if it hadn’t been for all the snow. It’s hard to believe we were actually scheduled to go this late into June – one of those awful school board...