Ted Dabrowski appeared on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to discuss the controversial new teaching standards that were proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Read more about the new CRTL standard here:
Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 25, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
Truths:
#1: The shortest distance between 2 points in space is a straight line.
#2: Kids in Illinois public schools will probably never learn #1.
I have heard that the ISBE recently “revised” the proposed standards to “only” require implementation at the college/university level and not K-12. Is this true?
No.
That is false. The proposed standards are also to be used for …”in-service educator professional development.” That quote is from the proposed rules as they currently appear in the Illinois Secretary of State’s Illinois Register, Volume 44, Issue 37 – September 11, 2020. In-service educator professional development occurs in preschool – 12th grade schools. Beyond that, the purpose of the proposed standards at both the collegiate and PreK – 12th grade levels are to train teachers, administrators, and school support personnel (nurses, etc.). It is unreasonable to expect that trained educators will not implement the training in the classroom, curriculum,… Read more »
Original: “Embrace and encourage PROGRESSIVE viewpoints and perspectives that leverage asset thinking toward traditionally marginalized populations.”
Revised: “Embrace and encourage INCLUSIVE viewpoints and perspectives that leverage asset thinking toward traditionally marginalized populations.”
What does “asset thinking” even mean? As an accountant, I cannot imagine what the are trying to convey (or hide).
There is not a standard agreed upon definition for “asset thinking” in the education community. Best guess is the term refers to asset based thinking. Which can have different definitions and can vary based on context. In general think strengths, as opposed to weaknesses. The companion is deficit based thinking. For more insight as to what ISBE means, ask the ISBE contact for the CRTL standards, and that is a perfectly reasonable question. One can also download the documents on the ISBE DLRT website. Those documents will eventually vanish, so if one is interested in the CRTL standards, now is… Read more »
Mike, that highlights another flat-our lie that ISBE has been telling. They have been saying that this is only prospective — about how future teachers will be trained, and that this just opens up more “options” for training.
ISBE has lied consistently about these standards, and this contains an example. Ms. Iremes says the standards are for teachers not students, and that nothing in them is about what the conversation in the classroom has to be. But look on this ISBE piece about the standards in the upper right. It says “Future educators will incorporate these standards into their teaching.” https://www.isbe.net/Documents/CRTL.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0z-wa7fVyST1ZPHWZdn4f9x0hvoQEGW0vE6eubmXua7baAn2XwW9ngad0
That’s unquestionably the goal because there would otherwise be no purpose to them. We will write further about some of ISBE’s other lies about the standards.
So the lack of Culturally Responsive Teaching is the last straw in job satisfaction that leads teachers to leave the profession? And POC eschew education because of the lack of set guidelines of CRT? Dubious claims indeed.
This needs more explanation. So they’re essentially creating a new tier of educators? Meaning a teacher hired last year isn’t subject to this requirements for the next 3 decades? Or is that existing teacher, through continuing education over the course of their career, going to be subject to these CRT requirements?
See Mike’s comment above. He is right. We are writing soon about this and other falsehoods.
She was real happy that these standards go into place if nothing is done. Typical Illinois, put in place a process where normal people have no voice (through their legislators) and no vote. Typical WBEZ too – give the majority of the air time and final word to the liberal. I felt bad for Ted.
True. And I posted a comment challenging one of Ms. Kirmes’ assertions but it is yet to appear in WTTW’s news story on this. (And note that it’s WTTW not WBEZ).
WBEZ is 95% fake news spoken with soft voice. People who listen to WBEZ are some of the most misinformed voters out there.
She perks up when saying it will pass. What a loony.