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    TEI or How to Insult a Real Teacher
    Michael Dryden, PhD
    • Jun 25, 2018
    • 2 min

    TEI or How to Insult a Real Teacher

    My disdain for The Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) is obvious. As a former science and math teacher I find the TEI process both...
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    TEI or How to Insult a Real Teacher
    Michael Dryden, PhD
    • Jun 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    TEI or How to Insult a Real Teacher

    My disdain for The Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) is obvious. As a former science and math teacher I find the TEI process both...
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    Runoff, Recapture and Enrollment
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Runoff, Recapture and Enrollment

    While testifying in Austin before the Texas Commission on Public School Finance earlier this year, I heard a school superintendent recall...
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    TEI Favors Choice Schools
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • May 22, 2018
    • 3 min

    TEI Favors Choice Schools

    Algorithms are Opinions Embedded in Code I have been very vocal about the destructive Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) in Dallas ISD....
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    DKF At It Again
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • May 2, 2018
    • 2 min

    DKF At It Again

    Money is power, the power of Education Reformers to elect privatization friendly candidates to our local school board and Dallas Kids...
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    I Have Nothing Against Charters, No Really!
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Apr 21, 2018
    • 3 min

    I Have Nothing Against Charters, No Really!

    I am about to say something that I’m guessing many of you will find truly shocking. I have nothing against charter or private schools....
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    ACE is the place for hardware, but for DISD schools maybe not so much.
    Michael Dryden, PhD and Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Apr 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    ACE is the place for hardware, but for DISD schools maybe not so much.

    The ACE program is being heralded by Dallas ISD and by some in the business community as a successful program to remove struggling...
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    Who's electing DISD Trustees 2018? Same Reformers as 2017
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Apr 17, 2018
    • 1 min

    Who's electing DISD Trustees 2018? Same Reformers as 2017

    Dallas Kids First (DKF) candidates are bought and paid for by corporate education Reform money, period. Here’s who’s electing your DISD...
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    Children Define the Data
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Apr 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    Children Define the Data

    We are headed in the wrong direction. It’s time to turn this ship around and sail to the proper port (or some such metaphor). The...
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    Who gets evaluated like this? Dallas ISD teachers that's who. TEI revealed
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Mar 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    Who gets evaluated like this? Dallas ISD teachers that's who. TEI revealed

    Imagine this for a moment: Your employer presented a 49 page document explaining how your annual evaluation was going to be handled. The...
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    CAMPing season is just around the corner,  watch out for snakes in the grass
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jan 27, 2018
    • 3 min

    CAMPing season is just around the corner, watch out for snakes in the grass

    The Campaign Activity Management Program, or CAMP, is the latest in a series of fellowship programs to pop up in Dallas, Texas under the...
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    Marshall Law and the Texas Two-Step
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Oct 24, 2017
    • 5 min

    Marshall Law and the Texas Two-Step

    The Trustee seat for District 2 of the Dallas ISD was an open seat in both 2016 and 2017, or so we thought. The seat was vacated early in...
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    Friends of Texas Public Schools Founder Scott Milder Speaks Out
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Sep 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    Friends of Texas Public Schools Founder Scott Milder Speaks Out

    In a recent editorial founder and CEO of Friends of Texas Public Schools Scott Milder speaks out about the harsh reality surrounding...
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    An Average Teacher - Really?
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Aug 9, 2017
    • 1 min

    An Average Teacher - Really?

    Mark Harrington is a 23 year veteran teacher with Dallas ISD since 1999. He chairs the Social Studies Department, has developed...
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    Back to School - DONATE to DISD
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jul 23, 2017
    • 1 min

    Back to School - DONATE to DISD

    The dog days of summer are here and believe it or not it's time to start preparing for the start of a new school year. This social media...
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    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jun 26, 2017
    • 3 min

    Facts Matter

    There have been a couple of articles written recently in the local papers that just weren’t quite accurate and omitted some very...
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    Thank you!
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jun 12, 2017
    • 1 min

    Thank you!

    When I look back on the past 5 months, there is only one word that comes to mind: grateful! I am so grateful for this opportunity to...
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    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jun 8, 2017
    • 2 min

    Home rule charter.... far-fetched?

    PUBLIC EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK and we need not look all the way to the state or national levels of education policy to see this. As is...
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    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • Jun 3, 2017
    • 2 min

    Fact Check: Merit-Based Pay, ACE, and other claims

    CLAIM: In a Dallas Observer article on 5/31, Mr. Schutze references an interview with Gilberto Hinojosa which incorrectly states my...
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    Supporting Teachers and Building Our Future
    Lori Kirkpatrick
    • May 31, 2017
    • 2 min

    Supporting Teachers and Building Our Future

    I want teachers to be able to teach children to think critically, to captivate their love of learning, and to nurture the creativity and...
    211 views0 comments
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