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WTU SURVEY:
WTU Contract Concerns and Mock Vote Survey
Share with us your interests and concerns regarding the last remaining items of contract negotiations.
DEADLINE:
Friday, March 29th at 5 p.m.
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WTU ANNIVERSARY:
45th Anniversary & Scholarship Gala
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MOVIE NIGHT:
Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Friday, March 29th
4:15 p.m. (Tentative)
Regal Gallery Place
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FREE BOOKS:
First Book Truck Load of Books Event
Register your classroom with First Book by Friday, March 29th to attend the Truck Load of Books event and receive at least 25 new books for your classroom or program.
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EDUCATION EVENT:
Occupy DOE 2.0:
The Battle for Public Schools
When: April 4-7
Where: U.S. Department of Education
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LAST CHANCE:
Teachers' Center Spring Professional Development Institute
When:
Monday, April 1 at 9:00 AM -
Friday, April 5 at 5:00 PM
Where: Whittier Education Campus
and
Anacostia Senior High School
Courses offered:
- Art and Museum Integration Across the Curriculum
- Sign Language
- IMPACT 3.0
- Building Blocks Toward Your Career
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SPRING BREAK:
Barracks Row Spring Break Activities
Share this Spring Break opportunity with your students and their parents.
Each day of the DCPS spring break (April 1-5), the businesses on Barracks Row are offering fun, creative and
free activities for kids. Sign up for one, two or all of the offerings, which include mosaic making and tours of the Marine Barracks.
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CALLING ALL TEACHERS:
Tell your story and express your concerns!
If you are interested in blogging about a certain education topic or issue, sharing school news or providing advice to fellow teachers, this is the place for you.
There is no long-term commitment
and posts can be submitted anytime.
Anonymous submissions are accepted.
For more information contact:
Jasmine Berry
jberry@wtulocal6.net
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Good evening, I have received your reports of school budget irregularities. These issues are being addressed to ensure that the school budget process--which is clearly outlined in the collective bargaining agreement--is implemented properly. Late last week I sent the chancellor a letter concerning this matter which will be posted to the website.
Read more...
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'180 Days' and 'American Promise:'
Two films that show racial and financial disparities in America's school systems
Two films scheduled to air on PBS in the coming days examine schooling in America and feature two vastly different populations. In 180 Days, a two-part documentary that spends one year in Washington's DC Metropolitan High School, students are overwhelmingly poor, families are fractured by drug abuse and homelessness, and children struggle to resist the lure of criminal activity. In American Promise, a documentary that spends 12 years in New York City's The Dalton School, students are overwhelmingly rich, families are cohered to high expectations and achievement, and children struggle to maintain academic excellence.
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Gray Names Abigail Smith Deputy Mayor for Education
By Emma Brown, The Washington Post
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Thursday named Abigail Smith, a former Teach for America executive with leadership experience in both traditional D.C. schools and charters, as the city's next deputy mayor for education.
If confirmed by the D.C. Council, Smith will replace De'Shawn Wright, who resigned in the fall to take a job in his native New York. Wright's chief of staff, Jennifer Leonard, has been serving in an interim capacity.
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A Look at Last Week's Most Relevant News and Information
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Free Common Core App Organizes Standards By Grade Level
Like it or not, the Common Core is just about everywhere in education. Tech tools are marketed as 'compliant with Common Core' or 'aligned to Common Core standards' and such. But as either a teacher or student (the two big groups of wonderful people who read Edudemic), you care less about the marketing and more about what it means for you and the classroom.
That's why I figured it'd be worthwhile to point out a free app that brings all the Common Core standards into one easy-to-read format: a mobile app! The app is called 'Common Core Standards' (not super imaginative, eh) and is quite handy for anyone looking to learn about the Common Core on the go. Give it a try and download it in your app store.
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WTU Scholarship Trust Fund for DCPS Students
WTU will present four DCPS students with $20,000 in scholarships at the 45th Anniversary & Scholarship Gala on Saturday, April 13th.
Do you know how the WTU Scholarship began?
In 1972, thousands of WTU members protested poor pay and working conditions in the first teacher strike in D.C.'s history. The strike violated a no strike clause in the union's bargaining agreement, and WTU was fined $50,000.
Former WTU President William H. Simons encouraged the judge to use the $50,000 fine to create a scholarship fund to benefit the students. The D.C. Superior Court concurred with President Simons' recommendation and created the Washington Teachers' Union Scholarship Fund, Inc.
WTUSF scholarship recipents have gone on to receive degrees from Spelman College, Yale University, Trinity University and University of Michigan.
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