Houston ISD reviews

The incompetence of our current district leadership is staggering. I've been an educator for more than 20 years, and I know what best practice is. Our faculty has been told they can no longer incorporate projects in their curriculum. In what world is project based learning not considered best practice? In what world should I interrupt my instruction every four minutes to perform a Think Pair Share or some other MRS strategy? I teach AP courses, I can barely finish explaining a concept in that time. What they want is an education factory. They assume that every child is the same, and every course is the same. The strategies that work in English won't always work in math. Unlike prior years, when time was allotted for teaching Socio-Emotional Learning, absolutely no time is given to develop relationships with our students. This makes it significantly harder to encourage that intrinsic motivation needed to succeed. Expect to feel undervalued. With the rhetoric you see from the superintendent in the media and in their own bulletins and blogs, you would think that every teacher in the district is awful. And when teachers resign due to his mistreatment, he points and says, "See? When we try to hold them to a higher standard, they quit." Learned helplessness, that's what he called it. He thinks that we are expendable, that teachers are going to flock to this district to work under him. No one deserves this abuse.

- Micromanaging from upper mgmt. -Admin doesn't know what they are doing -No consequences for student behavior.