Comments on: Educational Innovation And Teacher Union Contracts http://www.edwize.org/educational-innovation-and-teacher-union-contracts Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: JW http://www.edwize.org/educational-innovation-and-teacher-union-contracts/comment-page-1#comment-65774 JW Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:44:52 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=1237#comment-65774 Where you say that "little attention is paid to what we have negotiated into our contracts to allow and even encourage educational innovation" . . . Actually: What union management has negotiated INTO the contract is an utterly anemic Article 24, as well as a 99% guarantee that teachers will always have to succumb to administrators who put letters in their files and give them U-observations for pedagogy they don't happen to ascribe to. And we all know what those kinds of things lead to at the end of the year. I can't see anything in the contract that "encourages" innovation in the classroom when it goes against what the principal wants. You all caved in on autonomy in the classroom a long, long, long, long time ago. Where you say that “little attention is paid to what we have negotiated into our contracts to allow and even encourage educational innovation” . . .

Actually: What union management has negotiated INTO the contract is an utterly anemic Article 24, as well as a 99% guarantee that teachers will always have to succumb to administrators who put letters in their files and give them U-observations for pedagogy they don’t happen to ascribe to. And we all know what those kinds of things lead to at the end of the year.

I can’t see anything in the contract that “encourages” innovation in the classroom when it goes against what the principal wants. You all caved in on autonomy in the classroom a long, long, long, long time ago.

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