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 Boyd Waters, M.Ed.
Michelle Boyd Waters is the founder of reThink ELA, where she creates research-informed resources that help middle and high school English teachers build stronger communities of readers and writers. After teaching secondary English for 10 years, Michelle has continued working alongside educators and students as a university composition instructor, writing center director, teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project, and mentor to new teachers. Her work brings together classroom experience, literacy research, and writing center pedagogy to create practical resources that support authentic reading, meaningful writing, and student voice. Through reThink ELA, she helps teachers create classrooms where both students and educators can thrive.
