Common Core State Standards, Continuing Education, Current Events, Data Driven Decision Making, Education Reform, Teacher Appreciation

Have You Read the Latest?

Posted by Todd Savelle on February 27, 2013 | 3 comments

I may be the last education blogger to write about the 2012 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. But perhaps you haven’t read the latest results from MetLife’s yearly survey. You may be glad you haven’t. The survey results aren’t exactly a fountain of fabulous news. Here are a few tasty tidbits: Just 39% of…

Continuing Education, Current Events, Education Reform, Ideas, Teacher Appreciation

You Can’t Get No Satisfaction?

Posted by Todd Savelle on March 14, 2012 | 2 comments

So the big news last week was not that I had somehow convinced myself to volunteer to be assistant coach on one of my sons’ little league teams. As unexpected as that was—and, believe me, it was about as expected as the announcement that The Mailbox has hired an Elvis impersonator to edit the magazine—the…