There are so many quality of life issues that must be addressed at CBHS. Last year, we were promised smaller classes - do you have any? Do you have access to the materials you need to support your instruction? Is your classroom big enough? Do you have access to working technology? Do you feel safe in the building? Do your students feel safe? How are you managing?
Please share your experiences and ideas.
Welcome.
We launched our blog in 2008 initially in response to a serious of troubling events that included budget cuts, human resources issues, excessing of teachers and others. It is now April 2010, and these same issues remain, with few solutions in sight: supplies are scarce; there are insufficient educational materials in some departments; safety issues remain; class sizes have not been reduced; technology is not available to those who need it the most; we have students with specialized needs that are not being met – the list goes on. We also have a community of professionals who manage to get the job done anyway – people who have great ideas, strength, compassion and resilience.
We invite all who are part of the CBHS community to make your ideas, experiences and perceptions known here. This is a humble attempt to provide a channel for open communications – a forum for the exchange of ideas and best practices. We encourage you to participate often and invite your colleagues to do so as well.
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What do you think?
Thursday, October 9, 2008
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Isn't it ironic...yesterday there was a union meeting discussing the bell schedule a decision was made by the union. The administration is trying to push us around again...today the last day of school there is an e-mail with a bell schedule for Fall, I don't remember voting on this yesterday.
As part of the teaching body at CBHS we have to stand up to the bullying by the administration, this "new" bell schedule looks like option 2, which was not agreed to,administration decided on a bell schedule and we are being told to comply, this is not the way to run an institution, there must be compromises on both sides. Although administration has labelled a few teachers as discontented and rabble rousers, many teachers are not happy with the way the building is being run.
As teachers we never get the straight information from administration, there are not going to be any "reduced size" classes, the lost of the bilingual program and the bell schedule are only the being of the changes that are coming to CBHS.
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