Getting mad (Day 3)

Not at NWP. At TEKS realignment. Each afternoon, time is devoted to discussing a writing-related issue. Today, we viewed an editorial, written by the State Board of Education representative for the San Marcos area. Evidently, he hates teachers. Our own CC rep is one of the good guys, at least on the realignment issue. Much impassioned discussion ensued.

Here's the editorial:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA.053108.OPED_1B_CommentMercer0531.25b615e.html

A couple of responses:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/letters/stories/MYSA.060908.OPED.onlineletters.72ccb1b.html

Here's a brief history:
https://tctela.org/TEKS_Realignment.php

Anyway, this is an issue that's probably going to continue to come up in school districts, writing projects, and English 3360 for awhile, since we are most likely stuck with the new TEKS for the next 10 years.

Much writing, much sharing & responding. We had another model demo, this one on writing and ESL in the middle school. The tech liaison for CTWP (we are going to need one of these--anybody know a good techie teacher?) showed us some technology applications, including our "log blog" (a place to post our daily logs) and NWPi (more on that later).

I'm very, very tired tonight. But it's a good tired. I have written more in three days than in the last three months.