tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post1532446587217195820..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Alan Singer, Mixed Feelings on Fariña, de Blasioed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-56325441347293711352014-01-07T09:59:52.073-05:002014-01-07T09:59:52.073-05:00d15 is not just gentrified. It has different pocke...d15 is not just gentrified. It has different pockets of neighborhoods as well, that are below the poverty line or working middle class. I think that if any chancellor (with educational experience) was selected, such as Kathy Cashin, Josh Starr, it would be posed with resistance and criticism too. <br />One thing that must be remembered, is that good administrators who get the job done, retain teachers, train and supervise teachers with clear direction and communication are not easy push overs. Majority of the good administrators are tough with a hard work ethic. However what makes a good administrator, a really GREAT administrator is by being FAIR and know each teacher's strengths and weaknesses. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-50444403948353308502014-01-06T22:45:51.765-05:002014-01-06T22:45:51.765-05:00D 15 is much more than Brownstones. It goes as fa...D 15 is much more than Brownstones. It goes as far as Red Hook and Sunset Park where children live below the poverty line. There is also an large Hispanic community within D 15. The area around the district office did become gentrified when I was there, but many of those buildings were own my middle class, hard working Italians. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-49167823353013434062014-01-06T22:34:20.657-05:002014-01-06T22:34:20.657-05:00I remember Carmen when she was a principal. I reme...I remember Carmen when she was a principal. I remember the nineties when principals in Manhattan district 2 were given the power to eliminate any teacher f or any reason. One reason was to eliminate the tops salaries and so the principals like Ms Farina threw the top veteran teachers to the dogs. Also, the district had bought into magic elixir materials, and top down mandates for lessons, like word walls, and materials replaced the successful lessons that experienced CLASSROOM PRACTITIONERS had used to successfully enable learning.<br /><br />The emphasis on EVALUATING TEACHING replaced the FOCUS OF THE PAST, which was ENABLING LEARNING. Thousands of educated, experienced, dedicated PRACTITIONERS of THE PROFESSION OF PEDAGY (yes not mere teachers) BIT THE DUST because the union looked the other way when it cAME TO ENFORCING THE CONTRACT. Hearings became a sham and investigations of bogus charges, became a sham. A real journalist needs to look into Marlene Malamay's role at Special Investigations. in order to see the hidden agenda that allowed principals to deprive teachers of DUE PROCESS.<br /><br />LET'S SEE IF CARMEN is ready to do the RIGHT THING by our students and do her role as ENABLER and FACILITATOR OF LEARNING. Maybe she has learned a thing or two from the destruction that Cortines, Crew, Klein, Fink and Company wrought.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com