{"id":40320,"date":"2013-05-30T17:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40320"},"modified":"2013-05-30T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:12:02","slug":"teacher-gives-epic-resignation-in-video-stansbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/05\/30\/teacher-gives-epic-resignation-in-video-stansbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher gives epic resignation in video [Stansbury]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/2013\/05\/28\/teacher-gives-epic-resignation-in-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Teacher gives epic resignation in video<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from eSchoolNews.com by Meris Stansbury<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Everything I love about teaching is now extinct.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=uH9vxq1iJVM\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40321\" alt=\"InPursuitOfHappiness-ATeachersResignation-May2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/InPursuitOfHappiness-ATeachersResignation-May2013.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"256\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/InPursuitOfHappiness-ATeachersResignation-May2013.jpg 351w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/InPursuitOfHappiness-ATeachersResignation-May2013-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC :<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">After listening to this, I can&#8217;t help but reflect on the run-away train\/emphasis on standardized tests. It appears that not only has such an emphasis robbed the joy, curiosity, wonder, initiative, and creativity of our students, but also that of our teachers.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">With each day that passes, <em>I want to see more programs and opportunities that support an amazing variety of pathways and choices.<\/em>\u00a0 We each have different gifts, abilities, passions, callings, etc.\u00a0 &#8212; teachers as well as students.\u00a0\u00a0 The very words &#8220;standards&#8221; and &#8220;standardization&#8221; seem to be incongruous with how we are actually made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nPerhaps I should have called this posting, &#8220;Assessment gone awry&#8230;?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher gives epic resignation in video &#8212; from eSchoolNews.com by Meris Stansbury &#8220;Everything I love about teaching is now extinct.&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; From DSC : After listening to this, I can&#8217;t help but reflect on the run-away train\/emphasis on standardized tests. It appears that not only has such an emphasis robbed the joy, curiosity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,347,46,89,50],"tags":[604,4,616,594],"class_list":["post-40320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","tag-assessment","tag-k-12","tag-teachers","tag-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40320"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40330,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions\/40330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}