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Friday, April 12, 2013

Ed Notes Online: Carol Burris is State HS Principal of Year, Change the Stakes Meets Today

Ed Notes Online: Carol Burris is State HS Principal of Year, Change the Stakes Meets Today:


Carol Burris is State HS Principal of Year, Change the Stakes Meets Today

Carol Burris at GEM/Change the Stakes Forum
Video below of Carol Burris with an intro by a very pregnant Julie Cavanagh at a GEM April 2012 forum on teacher evaluation. (And Julie still had 3 months to go - Jack was a big boy even before he was Jack).

Of course to Unity slugs it is way more important for Julie to speak at a stage-managed Delegate Assembly than to organize a forum bringing together Carol, Leonie Haimson, Gary Rubinstein and Arthur Goldstein (who couldn't be there due to a death in the family).
New York’s High School Principal of the Year, Burris is now a candidate for the award of National High School Principal of the Year, an award sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. A principals institute and awards ceremony sponsored by NASSP and MetLife will be held in Washington, DC this fall. ---The Patch
How exciting if Carol wins the national award. What a strike against the ed deform industrial complex. Carol has 

MORE Updates, April General Meeting Saturday, High Stakes Testing with Julie and Jesse on Sunday

Come see the only group in the UFT with democracy in action as MORE is transitioning towards post-election mode with tomorrow's meeting being a combo of election experiences, structural changes (so far a year with no formal steering committee which certainly hampered some decision making in the elections but still kept us ticking), talk about the mayoral endorsement issue for the upcoming DA and other issues.
Saturday 4/13 12:00-3:00

224 West 29th st 14th Floor
NYC
Open meeting 

Please join us for this very important meeting
The UFT elections are here- we will discuss our current strategies and share stories of our unique experiences in electioneering. We will also phone bank together to help get out the vote. The UFT leadership will be endorsing a mayoral candidate soon. Let's decide how we want to approach this critical decision in the upcoming election. We will also offer proposals for a steering