The Problem With Corporate Education Reform

posted on June 23, 2014 What went wrong with the CCSS, testing and evaluation systems? According to Curmudgucation: When you fail to anticipate how live human beings are going to react to your program, that is a failure of you and your program, not of those human beings. Italics are mine. I went into teaching with a certain expectation: That students were all as motivated as I and my Honors classmates were 20+ years ago. Some were, but some just wanted to sleep. I had to re – evaluate my lessons and my teaching style over more than a year — and I’m still not done. The morale of this story: It’s not about whether you make mistakes , but whether or not you’re willing to recogni-recognize you’ve made a mistake, learn from it, and change course. Michelle WatersI am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working on my Master’s of Education in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an concentration in English Education, and a NBPTS candidate. I am constantly seeking ways to amplify my students’ voices and choices.