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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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