Pt. Arthur ISD Folded Like A Cheap Suit When Confronted With The Prospects Of Public & Professional Peer Awareness

Members of the Pt. Arthur Independent School District Board of Trustees convened during the evening of August 24, 2009 believing they were there to fire junior high math teacher Jerome Melonson in a hearing that would last just a few hours. Based upon the recommendation of its superintendent Johnny Brown’s administration, board members were apparently advised this would be a typical, slam-bam “you’re... 

Veteran Public Educator Jean Pickering Enters Private Sector

Jean Pickering has profound respect for the vast majority of classroom teachers, assistant principals, and counselors who labor daily in public education working on behalf of the children of Texas. Why? It’s because she is a veteran public educator who until recently was fully engaged with her professional peers doing her very best to meet the educational needs of a diverse array of children who... 

Pickering Develops Academic Audit For Your Child

    Pickering Academic Assessments is offering for a limited time the opportunity for parents to obtain one of its “Classroom Instructional Audits” at absolutely no charge. The limited, special offer will be available to the first 25 families who register their children for the academic assessment. Students must be currently enrolled in the 6th through 10th grades in public education, Jean Pickering... 

The 5 Elements of Education Reform - Series Compiled And Republished From 2009

The 5 Essential Elements Of Reform - 1 There are five elements, which I will spell out in detail, that would create a perfect storm of educational reform in a community if they could be mustered in unison.  However, empirical history and harsh reality dictate that two of the five are either systemically unattainable or consistently unachievable.  These two - local news media and business community... 

Inner City Wesley Elementary Forged My View Of Public Education Bureaucracies

I am prone to attacks of righteous indignation especially when it comes to administrators in public education whose decisions can dramatically affect students and classroom teachers. This character trait or flaw depending upon one’s perspective became evident to me in my first official ‘run-in’ with the bureaucracy of public education near the end of the first semester in the 1990-91 academic...