Anyone under pressure in their buildings to focus on output (“show what they know”) may want to visit the arsenal of articles collected here over the years and offer some of them to those fool-hearted administrators who have nothing else to do but challenge their teachers when they don’t fall into line with other teachers in their articulation paths who still align with the outmoded methods of the past century. I of course am referring to Tina’s situation in Portland right now. Tina is not alone. I would guess that this week in our PLC at least 30% – 40% of us are under some kind of direct of indirect attack, above or below the surface, in their building or from another building (usually a high school traditional teacher pressuring a middle school CI teacher, which I call nefarious).
I will simply publish a number of support articles here over the next few days in support of what we do. Look for them. They will all be published under the general heading of “When Attacked”. Many of the articles have become primers (see hard link above for that gold mine). Each article will provide specific responses to misinformed questions. There are hundreds here, written by us – Robert, Angie, Nathaniel, etc. – all written over years as this problem is like a dark leitmotif that we all must experience, it seems, if we are to earn our CI wings and take our students up to fly above the stink of the past century.
But admins will not read hundreds of articles. So I will publish some of the best weaponry we have. The reader interested in defending our position is invited to read for herself in the primers, or to scroll down through the categories here, in particular:
Administrator/Teacher/Parent Re-education
Bullying of Teachers
CI
When Attacked
So if you are experiencing anything like the attack that Tina is getting right now, look for articles here this week in support of our position.