Profile avatar
connect-edleader.bsky.social
Practitioner of the hopeful arts…principally K-12 education, PNW gardening, and sourdough bread baking. Student, teacher, principal…
9 posts 67 followers 38 following
Regular Contributor
Posts 13 Comments 5

Hey Cascadia! Can we get a Governing Group going from the left side of the divide? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

New org established to defend Department of Education coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education www.protectpubliced.org

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Washington’s Paramount Duty was proud to co-sponsor today’s Billion Dollar Bake Sale at the State Capitol! Hundreds of people showed up to demand “no more crumbs: fund our schools!”

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

clearest and best thing I have read on K-12 impact on federal freeze (THANK YOU @noellerson.bsky.social!) so far: www.aasa.org/resources/bl...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

A new coalition has come together to fight for Seattle’s option schools. The school district last year proposed closing nearly all option schools and is starving them of enrollment. Read more:

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Another great explanation of SPS history by Michael Hobbs. Principal autonomy matters.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

This is such an important read.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Deceitful representations like this - posted as a book review at EdNext (www.educationnext.org/rumors-of-wa...) only exacerbate the problem. Here are some basics on understanding ed spending over time: www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/how-muc...

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

I love the expectation of collaboration of teachers’ and principals’ union to develop local solutions. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/n...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

👀 If you follow what's happening with the Pittsburgh Public School Board, read this. SOFG contract approved 2/2024, no RFP. Implementation Plan approved 8/2024. No public deliberation or discussion for either vote. No public discussion about SOFG yet - everything is behind closed doors. 😏

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Enrollment increase in Pittsburgh Public Schools too. Yet both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are using 'enrollment decline' as a reason for massive school closures. Closing schools is lazy and unnecessary. Invest in our public schools -fix systemic issues- and enrollment will continue to increase.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

@edwriters.bsky.social Wondering if any national education writers are on the trail of destruction caused by adoption of Student Outcome Focused Governance (SOFG) by school boards across the country (leaving school closures and corruption in its wake).

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

@edwriters.bsky.social Wondering if any national education writers are on the trail of destruction caused by adoption of Student Outcome Focused Governance (SOFG) by school boards across the country (leaving school closures and corruption in its wake).

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments