The PD video teachers must watch on Monday

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe I actually took 20 minutes out of my life to watch this train wreck. Holy Molu. Teachers I feel for you.

If I was expected to sit through an hour of perky “Carla” condescending to me like she does in this video, I swear I would get up and walk out of the room.

And no, sweetheart, the definition of “freedom” is not keeping people and their feelings “safe.”

Where in the hell do they find these people?

Here in Montgomery County!

No, she's on the faculty at U of Michigan
"Carla Shalaby's professional and personal commitment is to education as the practice of freedom, and her research centers on cultivating and documenting daily classroom work that protects the dignity of every child and honors young people’s rights to expression, to self-determination, and to full human being. Specifically, she is interested in practices of critical pedagogy and critical literacy at the elementary level; classroom community and "management" as the practice of democracy; and the relationships between the daily work of teachers and the ongoing struggle for justice. Carla previously served as director of the Elementary Master of Arts in Teaching program at Brown University, and as the director of elementary education at Wellesley College. She started her career as a teacher of grades four and five in her New Jersey hometown. Carla holds a B.A in English from Rutgers College, an M.Ed in Elementary Education from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and an M.A. and doctoral degree in Culture, Communities, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School (New Press, 2017)."

https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/carla-shalaby

So very, very little actual teaching experience. Got it.

I think this is an interesting think piece for teachers in k-2. It’s not very useful for middle and high school teachers. And also probably not very helpful for teachers who are basically drowning right now. It’s not the time to have an interesting philosophical discussion about development theory. Maybe this would work better targeted to k-2 teachers as a summer session PD, paired with discussion among the grace level team about what they can see working in their classroom. Translating PhD theory to in the ground tools is often challenging. The fact that anyone at McPS thought it was a good piece to mandate for all teachers on their own call PD day is troubling.

I once had an education professor tell me he had a better grasp of K-12 education than I did, even though I had 15 years of full-time teaching experience and he had none. None. Zero.

He told me I was too clouded by the classroom to see the real problems within education, something that he was apparently able to see quite clearly from behind a desk at a university.

That professor and the woman from page 1 of this thread have something in common: they aren’t teachers. They get to comfortably speak in theory, but those of us in practice have already moved beyond cute theories to actually having to do the work.

It’s insulting, really, when people who have little to no experience tell US what we should be doing. Trust me: teachers see right through this crap.

Did you keep an open mind, that your 15 years of experience might not be the be all and end all of education? Or were you as dismissive as you seem to be in your post?

I try to keep and open mind and learn new things that make me better in the classroom.

Now mind your spot.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Stuck in your ways.

I’m the PP with the obnoxious professor. I’m not the one who wrote “now mind your spot.”

Of course I kept an open mind, and then he spent the next month spewing nonsense about how easy teaching is and how teachers are just too lazy to do things correctly.

I wonder… did HE keep an open mind? Did HE consider that there was something a person with actual k-12 experience could teach him? No, he did not. He went so far as to tell me that. Mr. PhD had all the solutions and all the theory, but none of the practice. He dismissed those with the practice as unqualified, ironically.

So before you assume I’m just one more close-minded teacher, ask yourself why his opinion immediately seemed more valuable to you than mine.

YESSS +100! What an abusive response to your post. I have worked with so many PhDs that are so disconnected with reality. There is a difference between book smart and 'street smart'. We are in the trenches. Would you tell a soldier what to do in the middle of battle as an outsider sitting in a cushy office? How INSULTING. I'm so sick of the narrative that everything is OUR FAULT. GTFO. I have the absolute worst kids I have ever had this year - I transferred into a new school (to me). Apparently, this group of kids has been really tough to work with for the past two years. But apparently "I" - being new to the school and having to build brand new relationships - need to do better so the kids listen. I was going to quit last year but I really wanted to keep my benefits because my child was in treatment. I hate this profession right now. I took off tomorrow. My time is too valuable to be told I'm doing things wrong constantly.

Good for you! I’m glad you took tomorrow off. You’ll be better for it.

Education isn’t going to improve until people who actually teach are in charge. Nothing is going to get better if we keep listening to people with little to no teaching experience. It’s absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe I actually took 20 minutes out of my life to watch this train wreck. Holy Molu. Teachers I feel for you.

If I was expected to sit through an hour of perky “Carla” condescending to me like she does in this video, I swear I would get up and walk out of the room.

And no, sweetheart, the definition of “freedom” is not keeping people and their feelings “safe.”

Where in the hell do they find these people?

Here in Montgomery County!

No, she's on the faculty at U of Michigan
"Carla Shalaby's professional and personal commitment is to education as the practice of freedom, and her research centers on cultivating and documenting daily classroom work that protects the dignity of every child and honors young people’s rights to expression, to self-determination, and to full human being. Specifically, she is interested in practices of critical pedagogy and critical literacy at the elementary level; classroom community and "management" as the practice of democracy; and the relationships between the daily work of teachers and the ongoing struggle for justice. Carla previously served as director of the Elementary Master of Arts in Teaching program at Brown University, and as the director of elementary education at Wellesley College. She started her career as a teacher of grades four and five in her New Jersey hometown. Carla holds a B.A in English from Rutgers College, an M.Ed in Elementary Education from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and an M.A. and doctoral degree in Culture, Communities, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School (New Press, 2017)."

https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/carla-shalaby

So very, very little actual teaching experience. Got it.

I think this is an interesting think piece for teachers in k-2. It’s not very useful for middle and high school teachers. And also probably not very helpful for teachers who are basically drowning right now. It’s not the time to have an interesting philosophical discussion about development theory. Maybe this would work better targeted to k-2 teachers as a summer session PD, paired with discussion among the grace level team about what they can see working in their classroom. Translating PhD theory to in the ground tools is often challenging. The fact that anyone at McPS thought it was a good piece to mandate for all teachers on their own call PD day is troubling.

I once had an education professor tell me he had a better grasp of K-12 education than I did, even though I had 15 years of full-time teaching experience and he had none. None. Zero.

He told me I was too clouded by the classroom to see the real problems within education, something that he was apparently able to see quite clearly from behind a desk at a university.

That professor and the woman from page 1 of this thread have something in common: they aren’t teachers. They get to comfortably speak in theory, but those of us in practice have already moved beyond cute theories to actually having to do the work.

It’s insulting, really, when people who have little to no experience tell US what we should be doing. Trust me: teachers see right through this crap.

Did you keep an open mind, that your 15 years of experience might not be the be all and end all of education? Or were you as dismissive as you seem to be in your post?

I try to keep and open mind and learn new things that make me better in the classroom.

Now mind your spot.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Stuck in your ways.

LOL you didn’t watch the video. Funny how you interpret what she thinks is a clear message of freedom!

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What kind of ahole admin put ads in this PD video?

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I am sick of having to shoulder the weight of the world falling apart. Teachers can't do this alone. It is not our problem to fix. Yes, 20 years ago it was about classroom management, but today it is a societal issue. It is not our fault and not our responsibility to fix it. it is not one kid in a class for 30, it is a 15+ kids in the class of 35. The world, the kids have all changed, but our classroom look the same as they did 40 years ago. That is the problem.

we have to fund our classroom with Amazon wish list. That is a problem. If we don't have a pencil to give the student what are we to do. Oh, we are trashed because we didn't give the kid a pencil. No one trashed MCPS for not buying enough pencils. It is the teachers fault.

Hopefully, this video will solve all of the issues. Maybe we will have the freedom to do what is best. Oh, but if our lesson doesn't have an exit ticket or the kids are engaged bell-to-bell we will get a negative observation.

I too have only a few years until retirement. Trying to hold on so I can draw my pension.

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There is no reason to be in person today to watch a stupid video other than MCPS' intent to micromanage us and make us feel like children. If adults knew how bad staff meetings were in terms of treating us like kids, imagine hearing "clap once if you can hear me, clap twice if you can hear me..." Most admin don't know how to lead ADULTS. My old corporate job and everyone else's I know, trust people to do their work at home if it can be done. Today absolutely did not require us to waste our time doing icebreakers and BS all to watch some ridiculous video.

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It's as if pipes are bursting all around us and teachers are asking for a wrench or at least a bucket and MCPS keeps saying, "We would rather you use this stick of butter."

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Anonymous wrote:https://youtu.be/lKjXipZjLj4

Imagine you are one of Biedleman;s victims when you get to the about 5:30

It's really nice that your work invests in your development. Most places don't and feel that's something you do on your own time.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of ahole admin put ads in this PD video?

If it's hosted on YouTube, it gets ads. That's how the platform is financed.

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Anonymous wrote:https://youtu.be/lKjXipZjLj4

Imagine you are one of Biedleman;s victims when you get to the about 5:30

It's really nice that your work invests in your development. Most places don't and feel that's something you do on your own time.

I wish MCPS would invest in professional development instead of counterproductive propaganda.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of ahole admin put ads in this PD video?

If it's hosted on YouTube, it gets ads. That's how the platform is financed.

And by $3.2 billion school systems paying to subscribe.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe I actually took 20 minutes out of my life to watch this train wreck. Holy Molu. Teachers I feel for you.

If I was expected to sit through an hour of perky “Carla” condescending to me like she does in this video, I swear I would get up and walk out of the room.

And no, sweetheart, the definition of “freedom” is not keeping people and their feelings “safe.”

Where in the hell do they find these people?

Here in Montgomery County!

No, she's on the faculty at U of Michigan
"Carla Shalaby's professional and personal commitment is to education as the practice of freedom, and her research centers on cultivating and documenting daily classroom work that protects the dignity of every child and honors young people’s rights to expression, to self-determination, and to full human being. Specifically, she is interested in practices of critical pedagogy and critical literacy at the elementary level; classroom community and "management" as the practice of democracy; and the relationships between the daily work of teachers and the ongoing struggle for justice. Carla previously served as director of the Elementary Master of Arts in Teaching program at Brown University, and as the director of elementary education at Wellesley College. She started her career as a teacher of grades four and five in her New Jersey hometown. Carla holds a B.A in English from Rutgers College, an M.Ed in Elementary Education from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and an M.A. and doctoral degree in Culture, Communities, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School (New Press, 2017)."

https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/carla-shalaby

So very, very little actual teaching experience. Got it.

I think this is an interesting think piece for teachers in k-2. It’s not very useful for middle and high school teachers. And also probably not very helpful for teachers who are basically drowning right now. It’s not the time to have an interesting philosophical discussion about development theory. Maybe this would work better targeted to k-2 teachers as a summer session PD, paired with discussion among the grace level team about what they can see working in their classroom. Translating PhD theory to in the ground tools is often challenging. The fact that anyone at McPS thought it was a good piece to mandate for all teachers on their own call PD day is troubling.

I once had an education professor tell me he had a better grasp of K-12 education than I did, even though I had 15 years of full-time teaching experience and he had none. None. Zero.

He told me I was too clouded by the classroom to see the real problems within education, something that he was apparently able to see quite clearly from behind a desk at a university.

That professor and the woman from page 1 of this thread have something in common: they aren’t teachers. They get to comfortably speak in theory, but those of us in practice have already moved beyond cute theories to actually having to do the work.

It’s insulting, really, when people who have little to no experience tell US what we should be doing. Trust me: teachers see right through this crap.

Did you keep an open mind, that your 15 years of experience might not be the be all and end all of education? Or were you as dismissive as you seem to be in your post?

I try to keep and open mind and learn new things that make me better in the classroom.

Now mind your spot.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Stuck in your ways.

I’m the PP with the obnoxious professor. I’m not the one who wrote “now mind your spot.”

Of course I kept an open mind, and then he spent the next month spewing nonsense about how easy teaching is and how teachers are just too lazy to do things correctly.

I wonder… did HE keep an open mind? Did HE consider that there was something a person with actual k-12 experience could teach him? No, he did not. He went so far as to tell me that. Mr. PhD had all the solutions and all the theory, but none of the practice. He dismissed those with the practice as unqualified, ironically.

So before you assume I’m just one more close-minded teacher, ask yourself why his opinion immediately seemed more valuable to you than mine.

YESSS +100! What an abusive response to your post. I have worked with so many PhDs that are so disconnected with reality. There is a difference between book smart and 'street smart'. We are in the trenches. Would you tell a soldier what to do in the middle of battle as an outsider sitting in a cushy office? How INSULTING. I'm so sick of the narrative that everything is OUR FAULT. GTFO. I have the absolute worst kids I have ever had this year - I transferred into a new school (to me). Apparently, this group of kids has been really tough to work with for the past two years. But apparently "I" - being new to the school and having to build brand new relationships - need to do better so the kids listen. I was going to quit last year but I really wanted to keep my benefits because my child was in treatment. I hate this profession right now. I took off tomorrow. My time is too valuable to be told I'm doing things wrong constantly.

Good for you! I’m glad you took tomorrow off. You’ll be better for it.

Education isn’t going to improve until people who actually teach are in charge. Nothing is going to get better if we keep listening to people with little to no teaching experience. It’s absurd.

IKR! We need to start smacking with rulers and paddles again. Make sure the kids know who's in charge. Who cares what the researchers say!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of ahole admin put ads in this PD video?

Might want to check your computer's security!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sick of having to shoulder the weight of the world falling apart. Teachers can't do this alone. It is not our problem to fix. Yes, 20 years ago it was about classroom management, but today it is a societal issue. It is not our fault and not our responsibility to fix it. it is not one kid in a class for 30, it is a 15+ kids in the class of 35. The world, the kids have all changed, but our classroom look the same as they did 40 years ago. That is the problem.

we have to fund our classroom with Amazon wish list. That is a problem. If we don't have a pencil to give the student what are we to do. Oh, we are trashed because we didn't give the kid a pencil. No one trashed MCPS for not buying enough pencils. It is the teachers fault.

Hopefully, this video will solve all of the issues. Maybe we will have the freedom to do what is best. Oh, but if our lesson doesn't have an exit ticket or the kids are engaged bell-to-bell we will get a negative observation.

I too have only a few years until retirement. Trying to hold on so I can draw my pension.

Teachers can' fix the world, but we have to meet the world's kids where they are - not where we wish they were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no reason to be in person today to watch a stupid video other than MCPS' intent to micromanage us and make us feel like children. If adults knew how bad staff meetings were in terms of treating us like kids, imagine hearing "clap once if you can hear me, clap twice if you can hear me..." Most admin don't know how to lead ADULTS. My old corporate job and everyone else's I know, trust people to do their work at home if it can be done. Today absolutely did not require us to waste our time doing icebreakers and BS all to watch some ridiculous video.

If you'd watched the video, you'd know there are several breaks for discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's as if pipes are bursting all around us and teachers are asking for a wrench or at least a bucket and MCPS keeps saying, "We would rather you use this stick of butter."

Great analogy.