Quotes by Randi Weingarten - Page 2

I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?
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Chemistry
Classroom
Excitement
Stomach
Connect
Flop
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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Access
Available
Classroom
Educational
High Quality
Instruction
Maintaining
Psychological
Alternative
Codes
Services
Violate
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Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Education
Great
Creativity
Critical
Critical Thinking
Curiosity
Important
Perseverance
Problem
Public Education
Teaching
Testing
Thinking
Most
Brings
Public
Student
Measure
Purposes
Solving
Standardized
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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Affordable
After School
Birth
Continuum
Elementary School
Accessible
Elementary
Programs
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It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.
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Discipline
Funding
Hard Work
Personnel
Providing
Work Hard Work Discipline
Cultures
Ensure
Excessive
Programs
Policies
Practices
Welcoming
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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
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Curriculum
Engaging
Enrichment
Well Being
Broad
Center
Teams
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Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Education
College
Community
Economy
Members
President
School
School Districts
Secretary
States
Life Work Community
Life Education Work
Teachers
Collaborative
Districts
Ensuring
Help
Parents
Prepare
Require
Stakeholders
Sustained
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Caring
Educational
Irresponsible
Needs
Nurture
Social
Teach
Workers
Arm
Counselors
Desperately
Ensure
Guards
Met
Professionals
Proposals
Role
Schools
Social Workers
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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Classroom
Closest
High Quality
Insight
Leaving
Medicine
Profession
Unfortunately
Governed
Policies
Provide
Well-Intentioned
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I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Classroom
Differences
Hard Work
Public Education
Aside
Districts
Enduring
Hundreds
Union
Visited
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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Adequate
Federation
Proven
Resources
Track
Track Record
Teachers
Communities
Intensive
Programs
Schools
Struggling
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Both Sides
Debate
First Amendment
Gun
Likelihood
Mass
No Reason
Recognition
Safety
Second Amendment
Sides
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Guns
Legally
Policies
Reduce
Responsibilities
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Classroom
Individual Rights
Social Contract
Collectively
Contract
Each Year
Ensure
Lesson
Locke
Prosper
Studies
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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Controversial
Evolution
Judgment
Nepotism
Patronage
Retribution
School Districts
Subjects
Advocate
Teachers
Classrooms
Due
Districts
Shift
Speaking
Winds
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
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Anger
Teacher
Acceptance
Companion
Constant
Doors
Joy
Labor
Bedside
Briefcase
Carried
Desk
Distant
Opened
Overflowing
Remained
Stacked
Stuffed
Table
Throughout
Worlds
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Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.
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Kids
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School
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