THREAD. I've been spending some time this week speaking to exceptional teachers across a variety of school types (trad. public, charter), demographics (mid and low-income student populations), geographies (large urban, small urban, rural.) Here's what I'm learning: 1/ Caveats: a) This is a small sample size, but I intend to continue this over the coming weeks; trends may change. b) these teachers were identified as exceptional by parents or past colleagues whose judgment I trust, but I haven't verified that with past student ach. results.

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UTLA setting the cap on teacher hours at 4 hours per day. This includes grading, planning, collaboration and recording asynchronous video (synchronous is explicitly banned in this agreement.)

https://twitter.com/SpeakUpParents/status/1248301973746544640

1/ There are plenty of hero teachers in Los Angeles, in California and around the country. I know many of them. They won't be working 4 hour days - they'll be working substantially more, because they know their students will need it.

Thread. Here's my take on the game behind Bernie's charter play yesterday. And let's be clear, it is political machinations, not policy or ideology that is driving this. 1. There are two major factors in the Democratic primary that are playing out simultaneously, and also - somewhat - unexpectedly.