I just returned from a wonderful, relaxing vacation in Turks and Caicos, a beautiful part of the West Indies, and I am now raring to go, with a schedule of events for the next week plus ahead.
On Wednesday evening, I will join John Merrow in conversation at the JCC in upper West Side of Manhattan, 7:30-9:30 pm.
On Friday, I will be in Indianapolis at Butler University, watching a showing of a school documentary called “Rising Above the Mark,” made by Indiana educators led by Superintendent Rocky Killion. I will be part of a panel discussion after the film is shown.
On Saturday, March 1, I will be the keynote speaker at the AACTE’s annual meeting. I was thrilled to learn today that I will be introduced by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz.
I fly to Austin that afternoon, and arrive that night to join the first annual conference of the Network for Public Education.
On March 2, I will give the keynote at the NPE meeting and listen in to all the panels of activists from across the nation.
On March 3, I will be a keynote speaker at the SXSW conference in Austin from 1:30-2:30 in the opening session.
On March 4, I fly home.
On March 13, I will participate in an exciting discussion at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, with Carol Burris, Pasi Sahlberg, Michael Fullan, and Andrew Hargreaves. The event will be moderated by Southold-Greenport superintendent David Gamberg, and will be joined by other Long Island superintendents and members of the Long Island ASCD.
On March 17, I will be in D.C. to speak to Title I coordinators from across the nation.
On March 22, I will speak to the annual conference of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project run by Lucy Calkins.
April 1, I will be at Syracuse University.
April 3, I will give the John Dewey address at AERA in Philadelphia.
You see the kind of energy a good week’s vacation can give you?
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What an amazing speaking schedule! Please continue to take good care of yourself. Your wisdom continues to guide us, and your spunk ever encourages us.
We love you, Diane. 🙂
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That is a full and awe inspiring schedule! I’m so happy that you are in the side of kids and public education. Thank you!!!!
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Please post about this Diane. Multiple student’s suicide attempts in Dallas, TX ( and one actual suicide) are being ignored by our Broad superintendent, who is too busy trying to get “help” with his reforms in Washington DC from our Secretary of Education, and also shopping for a new expensive office building for his own use, than returning phone calls regarding a rash of suicide attempts at one of his high schools.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/white-rock-east-dallas/headlines/20140222-dallas-isd-teachers-seek-help-after-student-suicide-attempts-1.ece
Specifically, while our Broad superintendent in Dallas, Mike Miles, was ignoring teachers’ pleas to deal with his incapable Fellow Principal at a formerly great high school who was ignoring multiple suicide attempts and bullying the staff to keep it quiet, he met with Arne Duncan for 15 minutes…flying out on our taxpayer’s dimes. In the meantime, due to courageous teachers going to the press, it is finally in the paper. He has not responded to the press’ inquiries as to what he will do about this.
I guess he is just too important to care about our depressed, disadvantaged kids when he has a new office to design and a basketball player to talk to.
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And what do you do in your spare time? 😕
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@Cap Lee: Prepare my lessons, dance, hang out with friends and keep active on this site, to be a voice for my students and fellow educators…and you…Troll and what else…?:)
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Didn’t know you had spare time 🙂 I am in Barranquilla Colombia working with special needs kids http://www.funprosefam.com and yes, it is on the Carribean. http://www.iase.com for international association of special ed Keeps me busy but the kids are great. No testing hahaha
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What fun!
I hope that there is a camera crew following you during all this! 🙂
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Was wondering the same.
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Thank you for fighting for us, Diane! Please get more people on board with you and talk to the NEA and all state unions. So many teachers, parents and administrators don’t even know what’s going on with the reform movement and corporate greed. Please continue to help teachers to have the strength not to give up because it will be detrimental to “our” children.
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By the way you posted this week, Diane, I would hardly think you were on vacation.
But if you say you are rested, then you are rested.
Please tell me what youth serum you are taking or how I can harness some of that energy of yours. . . . . I’d like some. I desperately need some.
I’ll pay you what I can afford . . . . .
Thank you always for having kept on keeping on . . . . .
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Activity.. “Mind and Body” and a Purpose in Life is always the key to the Young Serum..
Diane has a purpose.
Does she really know how many lives she has saved from the mere fact that the teachers now know that they are not Alone in this battle…this War??
I read this blog each and everyday that I can.
It is uplifting ..Only if there is hope can a person survive this profession.
Oh…and your fruits, vegetables, and vitamin C.
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Diane, we would love to have you speak at one of our lunches during the Democratic Women’s Club of Florida convention in September in St. Augustine. There are lots of teachers and retired teachers in our group and they admire you so much!
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You are amazing, Diane Ravitch! Thanks for all you do to fight for public education!
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Any public appearances during your DC visit?
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Is there a way to get a transcript of the Stony Brook panel discussion? I wish I could fly there, but too expensive for me to justify with my wife’s health not doing well and we were given 12 furlough days in our current contract. However, I would love to hear the discussion. Is there a way to purchase a transcript? Thank you for a your efforts and endless energy on behalf of our public school children and I hope all goes well in Austin.
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Make sure you pace yourself. We cannot afford to lose your voice.
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So glad that you took a bit of a break.
You more than earned it.
😎
But did you also give your staff of 92 a furlough day or two off as well?
😉
P.S. Never forget that R-E-S-T is not a four-letter word.
😃
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WE are privileged to have you out there, Diane.
I live 35 miles from Syracuse University. Perhaps this will open to the public!!
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Thanks for all you do. You are my hero. Soooooooooo, please take care of yourself. We all need you.
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Welcome home. AND welcome to Indiana. I wish the legislature here would LISTEN to you. Don’t confuse me with the facts, I have already made up my mind is their motto anyway so it would probably be an exercise in futility.
Best wishes anyway.
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Thank you for all you do. Please be sure to take good care of yourself and listen to your body.
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Thank you, Diane, for all that you do.
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