Denise E Wiley

Newark High School Varsity Girls bowling Coach

[Jen @jenteach13]

Twenty Fixes. Zero of them require a miracle. All of them require someone with the authority to act actually deciding to.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Nobody talks about the student who has spent his entire school career inside every one of these twenty problems at once. He was socially promoted past skills he never built. He got Chromebook babysitting instead of a teacher who could remove the disruption next to him. He watched the consequences arrive late, or not at all, and learned exactly what that taught him. Twenty fixes, and he needed all twenty, years ago.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

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[Jen @jenteach13]

Not every student is headed to college. Pretending that they all are is not real education. It is a holding pattern. Career and Technical Education programs give students real skills, certifications, and clear pathways to good paying careers in the trades, technology, healthcare, and more.

Students leave high school ready for work, ready to earn, and ready for a meaningful life. That is not a lesser path. For many kids, it is the better one.

[Kurt R. Snyder @Newark_Sports]

New Newark girls basketball coach Kevin Eckenrode leading practice this morning before the Cats head to Cedar Point for Midwest Live

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[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

Currently, most public school districts require Principal candidates to have taught from 3-5 years in a classroom. Would any administrator give your opinion on changing this to a minimum of 10 years classroom teaching experience before being eligible to be a Principal?

[Jen @jenteach13]

Nobody talks about what a student learns the first time she gets her phone out in class, and nothing happens. She learns the policy is a suggestion. She learns that some teachers mean it and some don't. She learns which ones are worth pushing. And the one who does enforce it spends the rest of the year being called the mean one. For following the rule.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #9: Start with accountability.

Let me break down Fix #9.
Accountability is not a punishment. It is a signal. It tells every person in the building what the adults believe matters and what they are willing to enforce. When a student misses thirty days and passes anyway, the signal is clear. When a student turns in nothing for two months and receives a sixty, the signal is clear. When a teacher reports a behavior, and nothing happens, the signal is clear. The students read every one of those signals accurately, and they adjust their behavior accordingly. We built the system that sends them. We do not get to be surprised by what they learned from it.

What does it mean in practice?
It means attendance has consequences that are real and applied consistently, not waived at the end of the semester because the numbers look bad. It means a student who does not do the work does not receive credit for work she did not do. It means when a teacher reports a problem to administration, she receives a response, a real one, before the end of the day, not silence that tells her and every student watching that nothing is going to happen. It means the adults in the building are aligned on what the standards are and are willing to hold them even when it is uncomfortable, even when a parent calls, even when the easier path is to look the other way.

How does this help kids?
A child who grows up in a system without accountability does not develop the internal structures she will need to function in a world that has them. Every job she will ever hold will have deadlines, standards, and consequences for not meeting them. Every relationship she will ever be in will require her to follow through on what she says she will do. We are not preparing her for an easy world. We are preparing her for the actual one. A school that holds the line while the stakes are still low and the adults still care is doing her a favor she will not understand for years. That is fine. We do not do it for the gratitude. We do it because it is true.

How do we make this happen?
We need leadership that understands accountability as a value rather than a liability. We need administrators who are willing to make the call that upsets a parent because it is the right call for the child. We need discipline systems, grading systems, and attendance systems that are designed to tell the truth rather than to produce numbers that look acceptable at the end of the year. We need teachers who are backed when they hold the line and not quietly undermined the moment the pressure comes. And we need to stop confusing compassion with the removal of every consequence, because a child who is never held accountable has not been shown compassion. She has been shown that the adults around her do not believe she is capable of more.

The goal is not to be hard on kids. The goal is to believe in them enough to hold them to something.

#YouWantToFixEducation

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[Jen @jenteach13]

We spent years removing consequences and then wondered why kids stopped taking anything seriously.

It shouldn't be a mystery. It's cause and effect.

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

In the past five years, I’ve seen a sharp rise in students struggling with foundational school skills:

-Legible handwriting
-Bringing basic supplies
-Following verbal directions
-Spelling & punctuation
-Reading & writing stamina

Ignoring these deficits in the name of "rigor" only exacerbates existing learning gaps.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Teachers are expected to hold a degree. Manage thirty kids at a time. Differentiate for a dozen learning needs. Handle mental health crises. Navigate federal law. Communicate with parents. Write lesson plans. Grade papers. Cover duties. Sponsor clubs. Chaperone events. Buy their own supplies. And be personally responsible for every child's academic outcome.

For every dollar a similarly educated professional earns in another field, a teacher earns 73 cents (weekly wages, per EPI — this accounts for the shorter contract year). Even including stronger benefits/pensions, teachers still face a total compensation gap of ~17%.

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[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #8: Make attendance mean something again.

Let me break down Fix #8.
We have spent years debating curriculum, methodology, technology, and testing while a significant number of students are simply not in the building. Not struggling in the building. Not disengaged in the building. Not in the building. A child who misses thirty days of school in a year has missed six weeks of instruction, and no curriculum in the world closes that gap if she is not present to receive it. We talk about chronic absenteeism the way we talk about the weather, as something that happens to us rather than something we have the power to address. We have that backwards.

What does it mean in practice?
It means the first unexcused absence triggers a real response and not an automated phone call that nobody listens to. It means someone in the building knows why the child is not there and has a plan to address the barrier, whether that barrier is a bus that does not come, a parent who needs help getting her out the door, a situation at home that makes school feel impossible, or a building that never gave her a reason to want to be there. It means attendance data is looked at weekly and acted on immediately instead of reviewed at the end of the semester when the damage is already done. It means we stop accepting independent study packets as a substitute for being in the room, because a packet completed at home is not the same as a lesson taught by a teacher who can see when the student is lost.

How does this help kids?
Attendance is not a compliance issue. It is a learning issue. Every day a child is not in the building is a day she is not being taught, not building relationships with adults who can help her, not practicing the habit of showing up that she will need for every job she ever holds. Chronic absenteeism is one of the strongest predictors of dropout and it starts early. A student who misses ten percent of kindergarten is already on a trajectory that will follow her through every grade level unless someone intervenes. The intervention has to start with someone noticing and someone caring enough to find out why, and right now too many buildings have too few people with the time and the mandate to do either.

How do we make this happen?
We need attendance policies with real consequences that are applied consistently and humanely, which means understanding the difference between a family in crisis and a family that has decided school is optional and responding to each accordingly. We need counselors and social workers with actual caseloads that allow them to follow up with chronically absent students instead of adding names to a list that nobody gets through. We need schools that are worth attending, where kids have at least one adult who knows their name and notices when they are gone, because belonging is one of the most powerful attendance interventions we have, and it costs nothing except attention. We need to stop making it easy to be absent by accepting every excuse and issuing every waiver, and start asking honestly whether we have made the building a place the child wants to enter.

The goal is not perfect attendance for every student. The goal is a system that treats a missing child as a problem worth solving instead of a number worth recording.

#YouWantToFixEducation

[Jen @jenteach13]

Education has a lot of problems.

A surprising number of them begin with an empty desk.

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

Truth.

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

What happens when public schools mismanage funds for years? Does their budget personnel get fired? Nope. Does their Superintendent get fired? Nope. Does the School Board get replaced? Nope.

What happens is the residents pay more taxes. Make it make sense.