Thursday, September 07, 2006
"Fresh Bloods" In Class
The Daily News has a story this morning about a 35-year-old guy who used to be a computer consultant but now has found his calling as an educator as part of NYC's Teaching Fellows program for non-traditional entry into the profession.I refer to these kinds of folks as "Fresh Bloods" in my chapter on entrepreneurship within public education in Rick Hess' new book Educational Entrepreneurship, which went on sale this week. (Other categories of school entrepreneurs I look at include "James Deans," "Johnny Appleseeds," "Destiny Grabbers," "Cooks Using All their Burners," and "Bulls Managing the China Shop.")
One other note on Teaching Fellows: My G-mail account scrolls all sorts of paid ads on the page (the price of free email, I reckon) and this morning I found this, a lawsuit that I didn't know about on behalf of Teaching Fellows in the city. The suit suggests the UFT isn't really looking after fellows like other dues-paying members. I always used to hear complaints from Fellows about how they were treated, but it usually involved complaints that principals were setting them up to fail to show them how hard teaching can be.
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