All Posts Tagged: 'School Buildings'


The View From Your Classroom

December 8th, 2009 | Category: Teacher Quality

Today’s view comes to us from Professor Edward Hsieh’s classroom. He’s an economics professor at the California State University, Los Angeles (He’s also Education Sector intern Tiffany Hsiesh’s father). Nice umbrellas!
Keep those views coming! E-mail or flickr.

The View From Your Classroom

December 1st, 2009 | Category: Teacher Quality

Check out the view from Kimberly Wilson’s classroom. Wilson is a 7th Grade math teacher at Plymouth Educational Center in Detroit, Michigan:
If you look closely, you can see Detroit’s skyline in the far distance. Check out past views here.  And, don’t forget to send in your views for upcoming posts.

The View From Your Classroom

November 24th, 2009 | Category: Teacher Quality

Second Grade Teacher Ashley Tugman (also fiancé to ES’s Forrest Hinton) sends in two views from her classroom at Noyes Elementary School in northeast Washington D.C. Since her class borders the playground, the “shade-drawn view” is a more regular occurance.
Keep sending in your classroom views!  Check out past views here.

The View From Your Classroom

November 17th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

Today’s “view” is from sunny California’s Fresno High School. Ms. Delaine Zody, who teaches marketing, yearbook, and multimedia at Fresno sent in today’s photo via flickr.
Keep sending in your classroom views!  Check out our previous posts to see our other recent views.

The View From Your Classroom

November 10th, 2009 | Category: Teacher Quality

Today’s “view” comes to us from a technology classroom at Sunset Park  Preparatory Middle School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Thanks for sending in this great photo, Ms. Apfel!
Got a classroom? How’s the view? Send us your photos! Alternatively, upload your photos to our Flickr pool. See previous posts here and here for more on what we’re looking for.

The View From Your Classroom

November 3rd, 2009 | Category: Teacher Quality

Last week, we introduced the new feature “The View From Your Classroom.”  Inspired by Andrew Sullivan’s “View From Your Window,” we asked educators from across the country to show us the what they see from their classrooms. We’ve gotten some wonderful submissions so far and we’re very happy to present this Halloween-inspired classroom “view” from Leslie [...]

The View from Your Classroom

October 27th, 2009 | Category: Teacher Quality

This week we launch a new feature: The View from Your Classroom. Based on Andrew Sullivan’s wildly popular The View from Your Window, we’ll showcase views from classrooms around the country, like the one below from Brian Woodward, an English teacher at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Md. (He’s also ES Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva’s husband).
We hope you will share [...]

Schoolhouse Rocks

December 7th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized

AFT’s launching a new initiative to draw attention to decrept and overcrowded condition of too many of America’s public school buildings and urge policymakers to invest in renovating and building new, adequate* public school buildings. Good work, guys and gals! School facilities are an issue near and dear to my heart, and one on which [...]

Gratuitous Edu Catblogging

October 18th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized

Joe Williams reports that the NYC Department of Education is cracking down on rats and mice in the city’s schools, following a NY Post report that 360 school cafeterias were rife with the vermin. Ewww! Hope none of them are participating in Erin’s cook-off. Jelly, pictured here, offers her services to the students of New [...]

Downsizing in D.C.

March 23rd, 2006 | Category: Accountability

DC Education Blog’s Nathan comments that the D.C. Board of Education’s guidelines for superintendent Janey’s efforts to close or consolidate underutilized DCPS buildings sound “byzantine.”
Yup. But that’s to be expected here. There’s no question that D.C. really needs to get rid of some of the millions of un- and underutilized space in the [...]