On January 27 and 28, Mississippi educators held the very first??Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers (ECET2) event in Jackson. You can read more about this event here. Attendee, Alicia Conerly, reflects on the event below. After my recent return from the ECET2 conference, I felt refreshed, fired up, and ??ready to work. […]
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The following is the text of a speech given by Darein C. Spann at the??It All Starts with Education Forum , which was held in July in Jackson, MS. The event was organized by MS Representative Jay Hughes. Several teachers were invited to give TedX-style power speeches to the audience of several hundred educators and […]
Read More...The following is a “Live Tweet”-style summary of the panel. Video of the full panel will be made available by Representative Hughes after the conference is over. If I’ve made any errors, please let me know. Panel: Dr. Andy Mullins, Rep. Tom Miles, Rep. Kabir Karriem, Sen. Bill Stone, Rep. Steve Massengill, Rep. Jay Hughes […]
Read More...MSEdBlog is LIVE at the Mississippi Education Forum this morning! We will be posting updates and reactions to various sessions. Keep your eyes peeled for updates here, as well as at the official Forum Twitter hashtag, #ItALLStartsWithEducation for pictures, updates, and live reactions.
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I’ve just read the most depressing article this morning from back in the spring about Detroit’s schools. It tells about how much some families struggle to get their children to school in a??place where school choice policy has run rampant for many years. I can’t imagine having to do any of the things described in […]
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The Mississippi Education Blog would like to invite you to participate in a book study of Making the Grades by Todd Farley. On March 12, James Comans presented three reasons to read this book.????He wrote that the book is funny, real, and important. Notably, Comans stated, Farley reveals??valuable information as to how the standardized testing […]
Read More...Going into last November???s elections, educators in Mississippi were hoping for real leadership. Instead, what they got was more of the same. The best example of this is House Education Chair John Moore???s bill to silence educators, which he filed last year and did so again this year. This is a blatant attempt to tell […]
Read More...Dear Mississippi Educators, If something happens on your watch, you are responsible for it as if you were in charge. Well, Mississippi educators, in very recent times, we???ve lost the chance to amend the state constitution to make education a civil right and allowed a gamut of privatization measures to bet set up.??These things have […]
Read More...Parents will get to shop for schools and pick the one that best suits their children. Oh! Look, Honey! This one has an exceptional music program! That one excels in math and science! The drama program at this one is first in the state! But that???s not at all what school choice actually is.
Read More...As a new legislative session begins in Mississippi, one of the hot topics will be education. Bills will be filed and proposals made to ???improve??? our ???abysmal failure??? of a public school system. But are our schools really such a failure? Admittedly, we can improve as educators and work to making our schools better, but […]
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