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Teacher Blog Posts
Give Educators the Tools to Be Lifelong Learners
Jim Szewc, a fourth grade reading teacher in Florida’s Hillsborough County Public Schools, responds to a recent blog extolling technological innovations that are promoting lifelong learning strategies.
Equal Opportunity in Kindergarten
Beth Hillerns, who teaches Title I at East Central Elementary School near Sandstone, Minn., believes all students deserve access to full-day kindergarten.
A Call for Investment: Our Schools, Our Children, Our Future
Kathleen Sullivan, a fifth grade science teacher in Malden, Mass., has some ideas for investing in students.
Teacher Video Posts & Podcast
3 Easy Steps to
Create Your Own Video:
- Head to
http://youtube.com/my_webcam - Follow the onscreen instructions to record a video on Common Core, teacher prep, teacher evalution, the school day or any other education policy topic and upload it to your YouTube account.
Don't have a YouTube account? See "How to Create a YouTube Account"
Quick Tips
Recommended video length - 60 seconds or less
Write content and practice before you record! - After the video is finished uploading, grab its URL and paste it in our submission box!
How to get URL
1. Press UPLOAD after you have finished recording
2. Fill in Title & Description information
3. Press VIEW ON VIDEO PAGE (upper right hand side)
4. Copy the URL in your browser
5. Paste it into our submission box!
Teacher Talk on School Climate: Armed and Pedagogical?
Kori MIlroy, Grammar School Science, Chicago, IL
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Current Events & Policy
Teacher leadership: How about some autonomy?
By Kim Farris-Berg, Special to VIVA Teachers Let’s drop our assumptions about the nature of teaching jobs, and imagine something … Read More
Idea Exchange Updates
Sensible Solutions for Safer Schools: An Educators’ Vision for Positive Learning Environments
On April 24, 2013, the members of the Writing Collaborative presented their ideas to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and his senior staff, … Read More
VIVA in the News
VIVA Teachers work highlighted in Education Next
From a piece by Richard Lee Colvin. Each of these anecdotes represents a facet of a small but rapidly growing national movement to give … Read More
Why Education Reform Needs Data
by Lesley Hagelgans