Former Texas Commissioners of Education discuss school choice, testing and school finance

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Former Texas Commissioners of Education discuss school choice, testing and school finance

From the Texas Tribune as noted in the TASB Legislative Update

Four former Texas commissioners of education (Mike Moses, Jim Nelson, Shirley Richardson and Robert Scott) discussed school choice, testing and school finance with The Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith at an education symposium on Monday, February 25, 2013 - two days after the 'Save Texas Schools' Rally held on Saturday, February 23, 2013.

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A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Former Texas Commissioners of Education discuss school choice, testing and school finance

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