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MEDIA STILL BLAMES JAMAICA HIGH SCHOOL FOR INCIDENT WHEN SCHOOL DOESN'T EXIST
Jamaica High School phased out in June but it doesn't stop the news media from attributing an intruder incident that happened in the building on December 18 to Jamaica High School.
According to multiple sources, two students who had left the building located at 167-01 Gothic Drive, now housing four schools, earlier in the day and snuck back in wearing ski masks. They had to have kept a door open to get back in and were mistaken for intruders. One of the principals in the building, or maybe all four, put the building on a lockdown where nobody gets in or out until someone recognized that these were students, not intruders, and caught them.
When the lockdown occurred, word reached the press but the media didn't ever bother to find out what particular school the pupils came from. For the benefit of accuracy, the building at 167-01 Gothic Drive now houses Queens Collegiate, Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences, the Hillside Arts and Letters Academy and the High School for Community Leadership but not Jamaica High School. That is four small schools. One report stated the lockdown was at Jamaica High School then erroneously reported there are five small schools in the building without naming them.
We are all grateful that this was not a serious incident but where are the calls now for the schools to be closed because they are unsafe and intruders can easily sneak in?
Why did the press report that this occurred at Jamaica High School when Jamaica High School no longer exists?
Posted by James Eterno at 12/30/2014 08:35:00 AM 10 comments: Links to this post
INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE CONFIRMS NYC'S ROSY FINANCIAL PICTURE
The Independent Budget Office is out with a new report on the city's finances. The budget picture looks positive for the city for as far as the eye can see. The report has this title:
A Bright Budget Picture:
Jobs Increasing, Tax Revenues
Rising, Budget Gaps Shrinking
The IBO statistics make UFT President Michael Mulgrew's claim in May that the cupboard was bare as he accepted a subpar city union pattern setting contract of 10% over 7 years seem laughable.
There is a consensus among even the most stingy numbers crunchers that the city will be swimming in black ink for the next few years unless some outside event causes a downturn. In fact, the IBO budget watchdogs say the only problem could be the strength of the budget.
Here is a key conclusion of the IBO report on page 22:
But it is the city's relatively strong fiscal outlook that could itself prove to be the financial plan's greatest risk. The plan contains general reserves of $750 million a year and $1.8 billion remains in the Retiree Health Benefits Trust. With the city facing only a modest budget shortfall next year and surpluses in the following years under IBO's projections, it may be difficult to contain the impulse to expand current services and implement new, ongoing programs or cut taxes. Balancing these aspirations within the limits of the city's resources is the key to keeping the budget out of the red and in the black.
I still hear extreme right wingers claiming Mayor Bill de Blasio is giving the store away to the city unions but the facts say otherwise. Union sacrifices brightened the city's budget picture considerably. Last year's December IBO Report said the UFT settlement was a big danger for the city's financial future. They aren't saying that any longer.
Here is what the IBO was forecasting in their December 2013 report concerning expired municipal labor contracts on page 22:
Foremost among the reasons for caution are the expectations built into the budget plan with regard to a settlement of expired contracts with the city's municipal unions. A costless settlement covering the years of expired contracts prior to 2014 may be more doable on paper than in practice. Depending on the terms of the settlements, the projected surplus could quickly evaporate. In May, IBO estimated that under one plausible scenario the cost of settlements with the unions could be $6.3 billion through 2014. In this scenario, the teacher and principal unions would get the same 4 percent raises other unions received in 2008-2010 and all the municipal unions would get 2 percent wage increases from the point their contracts expired in the years 2010-2013.
Two increases of 4% for us for the years former Mayor Bloomberg refused to give the UFT the city pattern that most other city unions received around six years ago and then 2% a year for the following years is what the IBO projected as plausible. Needless to say, this scenario didn't happen. We didn't even come close. Those two 4% arrears payments for us will be spread out through 2020 and that 8% total won't be fully added to our pay until 2018. Right now UFT members are earning a whopping 2% more than we made back in 2008.
The city will more than likely continue to cry poverty when dealing with the unsettled contracts for the Policeman's Benevolent Association, Uniformed Firefighters Association and other uniformed unions. Pattern bargaining means uniformed workers will more than likely have to settle for the 11% increase over 6 years, 7 months that their supervisors agreed to recently. The PBA's best hope is to say the city has the ability to pay much more but precedent means they will probably get what their bosses received when arbitrators decide on their contract.
Whether they win or lose, they will beat the UFT's pattern and we still haven't even talked about the healthcare savings we will be subjected to in the future.
In this season of giving, I would like to remind readers how the UFT gave to NYC by accepting our inferior contract. Agreeing to make it a lengthy nine year deal that won't end until 2018 (the two years of back pay are included here in addition to the seven pattern setting years) doesn't look like a smart move by our union either. Our contract will end and the city will almost certainly be claiming the cupboard is bare again.
If the opposition could ever win a UFT election and come to power, I think it would be very prudent to employ a smart economist/accountant who might be able to demonstrate that the city's financial outlook is a little brighter than the city says it is.
Happy Holidays everyone! We can all feel good about how we helped out our great city!
Posted by James Eterno at 12/26/2014 05:53:00 PM 14 comments: Links to this post
OPPOSITON IN NYSUT WRITES TO TISCH
The only good to come out of this year's NYSUT power grab by Executive Vice President Andy Pallotta and the UFT was the formation of a statewide opposition to Unity Caucus called Stronger Together. Stronger Together understands how the Unity leadership of the UFT in New York City has a stranglehold over NYSUT and the AFT.
Stronger Together formed to run in the NYSUT election but they have stayed together after the election. ST made a very respectable showing in that NYSUT election. The candidate for Secretary Treasurer, Lee Cutler, received 46% of the vote against a candidate backed by UFT President Michael Mulgrew.
It is a positive development to see ST Caucus put up a website and maintain a presence on social media. Now the group has written a letter to State Education Chancellor Merryl Tisch questioning the governor's anti public schools education agenda.
Great to see the UFT's own Lauren Cohen is one of the people who signed this letter. Stronger Together gives us some real hope for the future of NYSUT, the AFT and yes even the UFT.
Posted by James Eterno at 12/24/2014 05:30:00 AM 2 comments: Links to this post
POSSIBLE PBA V DE BLASIO ENDGAME
The UFT Executive Board passed a resolution last night expressing condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the two New York City police officers who were assassinated this past weekend (see email from President Mulgrew below). I can't imagine anyone in their right mind not condemning Saturday's cold blooded murders. This blog supports Mulgrew's email.
Mulgrew chose his words quite carefully in keeping in the spirit of these sad last few days for the city. However, two other labor leaders--Patrick Lynch, President of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Ed Mullins--head of the Sergeant's Benevolent Association--have been anything but careful in their rhetoric the last several months and that continued Saturday in the aftermath of the tragedy.
It is quite reasonable to ask why these two union heads in particular are at war with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Has the mayor really thrown cops under the bus as Lynch claimed?
From CBS NY, here is the part from the mayor that prompted one of the PBA head's major explosions:
The mayor said he and his wife, Chirlane, have had to have painful conversations with their teenage son, Dante, about "how to take special care with any encounter he may have with police officers."
"I've had to worry over the years, Chirlane has had to worry: Is Dante Safe each night?" De Blasio said Wednesday (December 3). "And not just from some of the painful realities of crime and violence of our neighborhoods but safe from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors."
This statement was made after a grand jury on Staten Island declined to indict a cop for the killing of Eric Garner this past summer, even though the coroner ruled the death a homicide. The mayor attempted to walk a tightrope on the issue. For the past few weeks, he has been encouraging people opposed to the grand jury decision in the Garner case to stay peaceful as they protest while not trying to further inflame the police union leaders.
Normally, the fiery rhetoric from the union heads would have eventually calmed down but Mullins and Lynch have been relentless in their non-stop attacks on the mayor. Their criticism was especially harsh on Saturday when Lynch claimed the mayor and others had blood on their hands after the cold blooded murders of officers Liu and Ramos. Many people have seen the video of the police turning their backs on de Blasio at the hospital. There is even a petition calling for de Blasio to resign. In response, the normally pro-police Daily News editorial page opined how Lynch and Mullins went too far in blaming the mayor for Saturday's killings.
It is interesting to note how we are not hearing much criticism of City Hall from the Lieutenants' Benevolent Association or the Captain's Endowment Association leaders. There has been no call for de Blasio to resign or talk of blood on the mayor's hands from these police unions. Could it be because higher ranking officers already have a new labor contract with the city while the PBA and SBA remain somewhat isolated without one?
The Daily News was on top of this story last week as the PBA leader looked like he was encouraging a work to rule slowdown. Here are Lynch's words:
"If we won't get support when we do our jobs, if we're going to get hurt for doing what's right, then we're going to do it the way they want it," (Lynch) said.
"He is not running the city of New York. He thinks he's running a f---ing revolution," Lynch said of the mayor.
The PBA denied they were calling for a work rule slowdown but a source confirmed that this is exactly what police officers are being encouraged to do and I heard a similar story on the radio yesterday afternoon.
This is a trade union blog that is usually strong in its support of unions. In this situation, however, I have real doubts if the PBA can win a contract with a much bigger salary increase than their supervisors got because of the dreadful pattern the UFT set last spring for this round of collective bargaining for city employees. The pattern is 10% total over 7 years. Other city public employee unions are now stuck with this pattern for themselves based on many decades of precedent.
At the time of the UFT settlement, SBA President Mullins stated that Mulgrew was out of his mind for accepting such a meager increase. Recently, eleven uniform supervisory unions, including the police, marginally beat the UFT pattern by getting 11% over 6 years and 7 months.
A raise in this ballpark will leave NYPD officer pay rates below what Nassau, Suffolk and Port Authority police earn. Yes, the city has a surplus, but I still don't see how it will be easy for the PBA to smash pattern bargaining, even with a job action and an in your face political strategy against the mayor.
When the dust settles after binding arbitration, there are likely to be many bitter PBA and SBA members who believe they deserve a huge raise that they are being denied. They will then probably take their anger out on the mayor in the 2017 election. Eva Moskowitz (or someone similar) can form a robust alliance of charter school hedge funders with their deep pockets and cops.
This will almost certainly have the effect of pulling the UFT closer to the mayor which in turn means the de Blasio-Farina way of running the schools that I call "Bloomberg lite" will continue for the foreseeable future. Anyone who expects the UFT to be anything more than co-managers of the school system stands to be disappointed.
If public education survives the Cuomo onslaught that is coming in 2015 (We still have Shelly Silver and the Assembly Democrats so we have a fighting chance.), we may then have an even bigger political battle ahead of us in 2017. I am not overly optimistic we can win without a serious mobilization.
As for the PBA and SBA, the angry talk may be put on hold as the city mourns the loss of two officers but expect the rift with City Hall to continue.
MULGREW'S EMAIL
I know that you join me in mourning the tragic deaths of police officers Wenjan Liu and Rafael Ramos over the weekend.
The senseless violence that took their lives has thrown a pall over our city and our school communities.
In addition to the two officers' service on the police force, Officer Ramos previously served as a school safety agent at the Rocco Laurie School on Staten Island where he was adored by students and the entire school community.
In classrooms today around the city, so many of you were faced with students struggling to make sense of this senseless act.
This is part of what we do as UFT members, educators and community leaders — we help our students and fellow community members deal with horrible tragedy.
Tonight, the UFT Executive Board passed a resolution offering our deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of Officers Liu and Ramos.
Our resolution also pledges that our union will continue as always to work for peace in our communities and respect for all.
At this difficult time, I want to thank you for all that you do for our students and our city.
CUOMO'S EDUCATION PLAN IS AS BAD AS IT GETS
From Perdido Street School via Capital Confidential, we learn that Cuomo's offensive against us has been launched and it is a nightmare.
Here are some of the areas Cuomo suggests could see so-called reform or push in the next legislative season:
1. The evaluation system
2. The 3020a disciplinary process
3. The ATR pool in NYC
4. Teacher certification
5. Probationary period for teachers
6. Making it easy to close schools
7. Increase in charter schools, especially in NYC
8. Adding more technology to the system, including online classes
9. Consolidating districts
10. Reforming the Regents appointment process
11. Making the hiring of NYSED Commissioner King's replacement transparent
Sounds like a Bloombergian dystopia.
All I can say is thank heavens for Shelly Silver and the State Assembly Democrats but even they may not be able to stop this onslaught. Anyone who believes we are safe could be in for a rude awakening.
Perdido wrote an open letter to AFT President Randi Weingarten calling for action. You think she'll answer?
UFT ALBANY STRATEGY LOOKS TO BE TO SAY NYC TEACHER EVALUATIONS ARE WONDERFUL AS IS
You knew it was going to happen that if too many teachers were rated effective or highly effective in the new evaluation system that our enemies would look to make the system harsher. It is no surprise that there is talk from Albany about changing the teacher evaluation law as Perdido Street School has been reporting. (His reporting has been great.)
It looks like the Governor and State Education Department are going to want some kind of quota of at least 5% of teachers being rated ineffective when they move to amend the teacher evaluation law next year.
During UFT President Michael Mulgrew's President's Report at Wednesday's Delegate Assembly, he gave away what will probably be the UFT/NYSUT legislative strategy for the year ahead. We will argue that the teacher evaluation system is fine the way it is in NYC. The rest of the state may be flawed but ours is first rate. The UFT will advocate for the status quo.
It is the usual failed negotiating strategy of asking for nothing while our enemies seek major concessions and then settling for new givebacks that are not quite as bad as the ones originally proposed. Instead, the union should be asking to scrap the whole system based on junk science to move the center of gravity in our direction. You can be pretty sure we won't make such a move.
DA REPORT FROM MEGAN MOSKOP
I had family commitments that kept me away from the visitor's section at the December Delegate Assembly but the very capable Megan Moskop from MORE took notes. We thank her for doing this. It is not an easy job as UFT President Michael Mulgrew often jumps all over the place as he gives his lengthy report.
President's Report
US will start to normalize relations with Cuba.
Cuomo will ban fracking.
Nationally- not much going on. Senate- no shutdown of government. Republicans have figured out that it isn't a good play. AFT is closely examining legislation.
Justice for all March in DC- UFT sent 10 buses. ½ were members, ½ were NAACP and community members. As far as these issues go, we have to be able to voice our opinions in a respectful way. We have different opinions and we need to show people on the outside that what happened in Ferguson is not what we want to happen in NYC. We need to have a place to have a respectful conversation. The NY Post- you can't say they're wrong on everything and right on this. We have to be respectful and peaceful. We have and will work with NYPD; we work inside communities. For that to work, it has to be respectful in both ways. At the school level, we do great work with NYPD, why is that never in the paper? The issue here is for us to move forward and discuss issues that are uncomfortable in a respectful way. We need to do that.
I (Mulgrew) met a group from Ferguson in DC- it was painful, those young adults had so much anger and felt that more needed to be done and it shouldn't just be peaceful. Everything that we tried to make sure did not happen, it was clear to me that we made the right decision. A young person said, "I'm a peaceful demonstrator and I've been shot with rubber bullets 28 times." In NYC the police are being respectful of the demonstrators. There will be generations of what we've lived through- mistrust. We've handled it better than ever before.
Our job as a union is to help people through difficult times. The day after the Garner Decision, we had conversations in classrooms to help our students with their anger. Yes, people want change, and as people who care for children, we have to rise above, keeping things respectful. Overall, our focus has to be on moving forward respectfully.
Rallies will continue; this has caused an important conversation. Respectful conversation to make our communities a better place.
UFT Members (Which ones? I wonder.) have been having meetings with state legislative reps from NYC. All the reps have been visited by the charter school industry already. Mulgrew met with newly elected assembly people here yesterday.
Teacher Evaluation- In the news today. Results are "odd" in the rest of the state. John King thinks NYC's system is more reliable than elsewhere.
Growth scores are complicated things, but we have folks who get it. "They told me this was the right thing to do." We're trying to figure out a way to simplify it, but this seems to work. Our system is complicated, but it works. We've never had this low a number of ineffective teachers. Across the state, the numbers are higher. The Governor announced today that he wants to re-open the law and make eval more rigorous. We're going to have to push the facts through on this one. Eval should be about helping people improve. 7% of teachers are developing in NYC. That means we have close to 6,000 on improvement plans. (Eterno's note: Is that something to brag about?) That's new. And highly effective, we now have a career ladder. We have to work on how to develop that more. Our system is working.Check and balance in the law. We submitted plans across the state, SED could have said no to make us change it. John King approved ALL the plans.
Now we'll have another fight over eval since the law is being re-opened. This is why we met with the assembly-members. We're also working on mayoral control, and the charter cap.
Now, Legislature will push for a quota system (i.e. 10% of teachers are ineffective no matter what.) This goes against what we're doing in NYC, because it makes us all competing against each other- which is not what we want. This will be one of our big fights.
(Megan's Note:Then why do we have a career ladder that is "competitive" for pay? I wonder.)
The governor is basically saying that the unions hoodwinked everyone with teacher eval. Small school districts were told to develop their own growth formulas, and many didn't have capacity to do it well.
Why do people think that if only 40% of the kids pass the test, only 40% of teachers are effective? That doesn't make sense, and we need to be talking about it, especially those of us who teach hard-to-serve populations (newcomer ELLs, etc). Using student achievement for eval isn't something we like, but student achievement is part of our responsibility. With multiple measures, it can be okay. We took a difficult situation, and we did the right thing.
Tenure lawsuit- We filed for dismissal. They submitted their answer, and we replied. Now we are waiting to see. What just happened around teacher eval will be part of the media campaign.
Renewal Schools- We had a meeting, and the PROSE team is also working with the renewal schools. The need index formula that Bloomberg created shows that the renewal schools are almost directly the 94 neediest schools in the city. We've asked those schools to come up with a plan (we want to be pro-active, and have already helped them advocate for things.) Huge change in policy under this mayor- not closing, giving money, schools can change schedules, teachers can work a longer day if they want.
District 75, 79- same sort of approach there. We want to create a plan. Chancellor is announcing a new structure for the system soon. Usually these districts are left out, but now we want to take 75 and 79 and get them out front- have asked them to "come up with a plan" for needed supports. Most are numerous programs inside of schools. These are our most challenging students, and they need the most support.
Press conference last week around class size. Group of lawyers/parents won court case "campaign for fiscal equity" ---NYC would get $$ from the state that was owed. Then the economy collapsed. Now, its booming, but we still haven't gotten the court settlement that mentions reducing class size. Now we are advocating for K-3 classes no bigger than 15. Funding would come from taxing luxury condos with out-of-state owners (who don't live in the city and pay taxes). The Daily News and NY Post have attacked the union on this, citing invalid studies that say "class size doesn't matter, poverty has nothing to do with educational outcomes."
We need to be focused on "research" and "facts" from people who study education, and we need to be sharing those with lawmakers so they are not just hearing from Gates-funded foundations and corporate CEOs.
We have voice, we have a contract, let's use it! Schools need to have active PD and consultation committees. Plan to implement contract is moving. By the end of this school year, there will be improvement in all sorts of things.
Staff Report- Leroy Barr
This past week:
-Big Apple Classic leadership summit. College Fair at Barclays Center.
-Coalition for Homeless Holiday Celebration
-Tomorrow: Kwanzaa celebration at 4:30. All are invited.
-Next DA: January 14th.
Mulgrew puts on a singing hat and announces that he wants to make a segment of the DA about contract implementation- we'll hear from PROSE people 1st.
Question- Lots of teachers have complained about admin e-mailing them outside of work time and mandating responses. Can admin do that?
Mulgrew Answer: No. We're going to have to start grappling more with electronic communication. The best way for us to do this is to share what people are doing well and what is working. Some teachers set this up really well during the first weeks of school. Some people are using tech to make their lives easier and if we don't want to deal with that we're being foolish.
Question: Farina has spoken about more funding, extending workday for middle schools. How will that be implemented?
Answer: I think I covered this in my report. If you want to extend learning time, you can change schedules or come up with a program that teachers buy into and are compensated for. A school decision. Maybe we should come up with some models for changing the schedules to extend learning time and change programming positively.
Question: Can the DOE and UFT work together to re-open teacher cafeterias?
Answer: Who wants that? DC37 has to man it. Teachers didn't eat the food in those cafeterias and that's what closed a lot of them. What about the "fun" lunchroom program? Maybe we should have that for teachers.
Question: Thank you for the fabulous hat. Main office should have a UFT member payroll secretary and pupil personnel secretary, right? Is there a way for principals to circumvent that?
Answer: This has been a huge problem, we did an arbitration and we won. DOE lost that arbitration and set it up so that no one could become a licensed secretary. This happened to other civil service agencies too. So since they didn't give the exam they outsourced the work. Contact Laura Tamboro. There is a new process for hiring secretaries. We'll send it out in the CL alert.
Question- Principal is sending people for psych evals, other CL was shipped out, now that he is filing grievances, he is getting rated ineffective. Numbers are low for developing and ineffectives, but in his struggling school, this is not the case.
Answer: Talk to Leroy. We will do something about this.
Question- We need a reading specialist.
Answer: Okay. We're talking about that.
Question: Group of us want to stop contraction and elimination of low-level students from that program. We would like to be in on the project for 75 and 79.
Answer: Great. We want to get more people involved in that.
Question: What are we actually doing to fight for class size, etc on a larger scale for all the issues that we're facing?
Answer: That's why we're meeting with the assembly. We want to target what we're fighting for. We've given people talking points, we'll push that out before the "state of the state." We have a "for" and "against" agenda.
**Megan's question (which she didn't get called on to ask): How have members been involved in the creation of that political agenda? What is it exactly and where can we read it? How can we get involved in shaping it or sharing it? Will the UFT be organizing members to go to charter school hearings and Moskowitz's press conference? I've signed up online for the political action committee, and have heard nothing.**
Retiree Back Pay
Mulgrew said he forgot to report on the arbitration about retiree back-pay. That is progressing, and retirees who retired at the end of last year should expect to see $ in February.
Resolution #1 In Response to the Grand Jury Decision in the Case of the Death of Eric Garner
(rally last week in DC, ongoing work here.)
-carried
Amended- by Sebastian Natera- to add "public school parent" and "systemic racism and police brutality."
Abe Levine- we can't use the word racist, because it has been used by our opponents against us, and that could happen again. This wasn't about race.
Leroy Barr- supports amendment regarding use of the word parent. Speaks against second amendment. "I represent every member of this union," and we don't want this to become a splitter issue- regardless of how we may feel individually. Where can, we find common ground to move forward- everyone needs to agree that something is not right, and something must change. People want their grievances heard, and they want them addressed. We should stay away from language that would split this union. The goal is to come through this together because we have other issues we must deal with. We have other issues that will be just as big as this.
Someone called the question (made a motion to end the debate which carried).
Amendment 1=passed
Amendment 2= did not pass. There were a few votes in support, and many more votes against the amendment. There also appeared to be many abstentions. These were not called for.
Attempted point of order that was ignored. (Those who raised it were called out of order, and told that points of order are not allowed to be raised during the vote.)
Resolution Carried.
Resolution #2 In Support of More Accurate Cola Adjustments to Social Security
Joan Heymont spoke in favor while expressing dismay that there are so many senior citizens living in poverty. She shared her recollection of going to a pension meeting when she first began teaching and hearing that it was her job to put money aside. She believes all of us should be taken care of in our old age and shared the anecdote that her brother was unable to get Medicaid in Maryland because their cut-off is only $11,000. She stated that this issue is one of the reasons why she is a communist.
The motion carried.
Posted by James Eterno at 12/18/2014 04:31:00 AM 1 comment: Links to this post
58% OF NYS TEACHERS OUTSIDE NYC RATED HIGHLY EFFECTIVE BUT ONLY 9% HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN NYC
The numbers are out for the first year where New York City teachers were rated under the new teacher evaluation system and they show that New York State teachers outside of New York City fared better than teachers in the city in 2013-14. Outside of NYC, 58.2% of the teachers received highly effective ratings while only 9.2% in the city were given a highly effective grade. Outside of NYC, 97.5% of teachers were rated highly effective or effective. The numbers in NYC were lower.
Nevertheless, UFT President Michael Mulgrew is claiming victory (see below) as only 8.2% of city teachers were rated ineffective or developing in 2013-14. However, outside of the city only 2.4% received negative ratings. 1.2% of city teachers received a rating of ineffective while only .7% statewide were rated ineffective and only .4% outside of NYC got the lowest score.
Regents Chancellor Meryl Tisch was not happy with the results. Here is a quote taken from Syracuse.com:
"The ratings show there's much more work to do to strengthen the evaluation system," Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said in a news release. "There's a real contrast between how our students are performing and how their teachers and principals are evaluated."
I think Mulgrew's victory dance may be just a little premature as how does he explain that New York City teachers were three times as likely to be rated ineffective as teachers in the rest of the state? I still believe the evaluation system will be used to eventually fail more than 1.2% of city teachers. In addition, the extra observations are producing needless anxiety among teachers.
The 1.2% rated ineffective are now in year two status and if they don't get at least developing this year, the burden of proof will shift to the teachers in termination hearings. To put it another way, they will be basically defenseless. The number of teachers terminated for incompetence may rise significantly soon. However, I hope Mulgrew is right that "we have a strong foundation for an evaluation system which...can help teachers improve throughout their careers."
The vast majority of teachers I talk to think the new system is a huge bureaucratic pain in the neck that will not improve their teaching practice.
One more interesting point: According to the report, "NYC: 62,184 Teachers Reported." That means over 10,000 teachers were not rated in the new system. Are there that many teachers who teach one or no classes, are assigned to district offices or are ATRs?
Mulgrew's letter is printed in its entirety.
In 2010, when the new teacher evaluation system was created by state law, we said that we would never agree to a "gotcha" or a gaming system. The first-year results are now in: that did not happen.
In New York City, according to state Education Department data for the 2013-14 school year, 9.2 percent of teachers were rated highly effective, 82.5 percent were rated effective, 7.0 percent were rated developing and 1.2 percent were rated ineffective. These results show that the previous mayor did not get his way. We now have a strong foundation for an evaluation system which — if we properly implement it and if we use the new voice we gained in our contract — can help teachers improve throughout their careers.
I'm proud of the work that our teachers have done. Teaching is one of the most difficult jobs there is, and teaching in a large, urban system like New York City is especially hard. Our teachers deserve an evaluation system that is fair, helps them identify their relative strengths and weaknesses, provides targeted support for teachers who are struggling, and gives opportunities for those who are at the top of their game to share their expertise with their colleagues.
Thank you for taking on one of the toughest — but also one of the most rewarding — jobs. Happy holidays!
EPOCH TIMES DISCOVERS ATRS
At last month's PEP meeting, where I spoke to the Panel and Chancellor Carmen Farina, a reporter from the Epoch Times approached me. He talked to Francesco Portelos and me after the meeting.
I have attached his story which was recently in Epoch Times. The tone of the overall piece is fine and I can't complain about how I am portrayed. The only line attributed to me that is inaccurate is where the reporter paraphrases me talking about the dozens who were excessed from Jamaica and then writing that only one found a permanent job. I was talking about the final eight who were left in the last year. Of the final eight teachers at Jamaica, one has found a permanent position, while three retired, three are now in leave replacement jobs and one is rotating.
There was some criticism of ATRs in the Epoch Times article. We didn't get a chance to respond so I will do that here.
In defense of my fellow ATRs, rotating to different schools and covering classes can be very depressing. I can definitely understand why a teacher who may be a star feels the need to change his/her mindset to survive as an ATR. Getting attached to kids and a school might not necessarily lead to an ATR obtaining a position and if someone is in a good school, it is quite disheartening when one has to move on after a few weeks. It is very easy to become jaded and to say to oneself, "Let me just do the minimum necessary to survive in this system where I am thought of as an inferior teacher by my employer; I'll save the bulk of my energy for other parts of my life."
In reality, finding a regular job is often a matter of just being at the right place at the right time when there is an opening.
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UNIFORM SUPERVISORS BREAK UFT PATTERN IN TENTATIVE SETTLEMENTS
Eleven supervisor unions for uniform services in New York City have agreed to a deal with Mayor Bill de Blasio for contracts that exceed the pattern set by the UFT for this round of bargaining.
Here are some details from Capital New York:
The 11,900 supervisors will be paid 11 percent, compounded, over six years and seven months. The first raise will take effect in the final month of the contract's first year. By comparison, the United Federation of Teachers and other unions that have already settled got 10 percent, compounded, over seven years.
The deal announced tonight covers all uniform supervisors other than the Sergeants Benevolent Association...
During a press conference this evening with labor leaders and members of his senior staff, de Blasio said the uniform supervisors are getting paid more than other municipal employees, such as teachers, because their jobs are more dangerous.
We don't begrudge them the money but we still don't understand why the UFT didn't wait for the uniforms to establish a pattern which would have more than likely been better than the dismal pattern the UFT set in May or the one just agreed to by the supervisors. Maybe we should have gone to the back of the line and let someone else go first.
In addition, I don't see anywhere where unions such as the police Captains, Detectives and Lieutenants will have to be absent reserves; nor can I find anything about any of these unions having to wait until 2020 to receive their retroactive raises. Finally, there is no zero % year in this deal as the first increase is paid toward the end of the first year.
USE ATRS TO LOWER CLASS SIZES
NYC Educator has put up two excellent posts in the last few days as he usually does. One is on class size where he tells the world how class size grievances are basically useless. The 34 maximum for students in a class in the high schools is more like a suggestion.
The second piece is on Absent Teacher Reserves. NYC Educator describes how ATRs have for the most part been abandoned by our union in addition to our employer. I have a not so novel idea for Chancellor Carmen Farina on how she can deal with both problems:
USE ATRS TO LOWER CLASS SIZES!
It is easy and could be done at virtually no cost to the city. Let's say there is a high school with 55 oversize classes. Send 11 ATRS to that school and give them five classes each and presto there are no more oversize classes.
I know; I know you are going to tell me that there isn't enough space in some of these buildings to make new classes. The solution here is not that complex either as the DOE would just need to use the ATRS as push in teachers. We could team teach. Interviews could be conducted with actual teachers to make sure these are good matches.
Just some simple ideas that might work educationally so they will probably never happen.
I'M BEING LET OFF THE INSANE ATR ROTATION TRAIN FOR NOW
For those of you who are following my travelogue around the high schools of Queens, I have some news. I am being taken off the Absent Teacher Reserve Rotation train wreck by Middle College High School for the rest of the 2014-15 school year.
Middle College was one of the schools I wandered through this fall. Apparently, I did something right there as they called me in for an interview for a Leave Replacement Teacher position. I don't know how to say thank you enough to Principal Linda Siegmund and her faculty for rescuing me from ATR rotations to let me actually teach again. The new trimester starts today. Middle College is a very progressive school that I am looking forward to working in.
It is nice not to have to wonder from day-to-day and week-to-week what classes I will be given and what schools I will be sent to in the Michael Mulgrew, Carmen Farina traveling circus known as the ATR Rotation.
As excited as I am to have a fresh start somewhere, make no mistake about it I am still an ATR. This position is temporary so in September chances are I will be right back pounding the pavement looking for a job and quite possibly in rotation again. Decades of experience means next to nothing.
Is this any way to treat close to 2,000 professionals who are in rotation or in temporary assignments? We have spent the last 5-10-20-30 years or more dedicating our professional lives to the students of New York City. Our reward is to be bounced around like a tennis ball and denied a chance to vote for our own union representatives at the school level.
CSA SETTLES CONTRACT
The Council of Supervisors and Administrators (CSA is the union for principals and assistant principals) has settled their contract. They basically accepted the same terms as the UFT. This is what the city's press release says:
"The proposed nine-year, one-month, 15-day contract with CSA would begin, retroactively, on March 6, 2010 and expire on April 20, 2019 and include an average of 2 percent per year in raises over the life of the contract."
In addition, CSA members will get back pay for the two annual 4% raises from the last round of collective bargaining that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg denied to them. Those payments will be stretched out through 2021. Those who go from UFT to administrator will get the back pay. That was supposedly a sticking point.
Here is my favorite part of the press release:
"Even after the City's budget factored in the pattern settlement for the first time since the contracts were left open in 2009, out-year gaps remained well below the historical average under prior administrations."
Translation: The city has plenty of money and the unions could have done better in this round of bargaining.
The city always forecasts a dire budget picture for the future (the out years) and then amazingly money appears and things are fine. This happens in good times and even sometimes in bad times.
As the economic outlook keeps improving now that we seem to be fully emerging from the Great Recession, it took some really poor negotiating skills on the part of municipal labor to get us where we are.
Who set that municipal labor pattern of 10% increases over 7 years and waiting for years to receive back pay from the last round of bargaining with the city? The UFT of course. We are certainly doing our part to balance the books and keep inflation in check.
One other point: I read the press release kind of quickly but I didn't see where the interest for CSA members who are in the fixed TDA was being reduced from 8.25% to 7% like the UFT agreed to do in 2009 but maybe I missed it. Or perhaps that was an exclusive UFT giveback.
HOLY COW! THERE ARE 1,890 ATRS
In response to a Freedom of Information Law request from Francesco Portelos, the New York City Department of Education reported there are 1,890 Absent Teacher Reserves, including teachers, counselors, secretaries and school psychologists as of September 10, 2014. This would seem to be a much higher number than the UFT led us to believe were in the ATR pool.
The 1,890 total is after the severance package that a few ATRS took in the summer and the large retirement exodus in June. The total does not include teachers and others who were hired provisionally or to replace people who are on long term leaves and so are reported on school budgets.
To put this number in perspective, there are only 1,768 teachers in the entire City of Yonkers School District.
NO RESPONSE YET TO OUR PEP PRESENTATION
It has been a week since I spoke to the Panel for Educational Policy and Chancellor Carmen Farina. Not surprisingly, I have not heard back from anyone at the DOE concerning my request for the Chancellor, or someone from her office, to meet with representatives from the Absent Teacher Reserve Alliance (ATRA) to discuss our concerns. I am trying to remain optimistic that something substantial is different under the present administration as compared to the last one. Maybe the response will come soon.
If the Chancellor is concerned about offending the UFT by meeting with us, I would like to point out that Article 1 of the UFT contract gives us a right to meet with administration. Here is the language:
"Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent any Board official from meeting with any employee organization representing employees in the bargaining unit for the purpose of hearing the views and proposals of its members, except that, as to matters presented by such organizations which are proper subjects of collective bargaining, the Union shall be informed of the meeting and, as to those matters, any changes or modifications shall be made only through negotiations with the Union."
We understand no group can speak for the UFT and the Union would have to negotiate changes to the ATR agreement. However, the question I have is what will it take to have the DOE meet with representatives of ATRs who have been elected exclusively by ATRs, Absent Counselor Reserves and Leave Replacement Teachers? We have real matters of importance that need to be addressed.
If we were a corporate reform front group, then someone at the Department of Education would probably have already found the time to set up a meeting with us. On the other hand, a large group of displaced teachers and counselors might have to make some more noise to be heard.
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SHARC Energy Reports Q1 2020
Vancouver – (June 12, 2020) – SHARC™ International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) ("SHARC Energy" or the "Company") has filed its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020 ("Q1 2020") and 2019 ("Q1 2019"). All figures are in CDN unless otherwise noted.
Q1 2020 Financial Highlights:
Quarter over quarter revenue growth of 182% or an increase of $0.04M and comparative quarter over quarter revenue growth of 93% or an increase of $0.03M.
Adjusted EBITDA[1] Loss of $0.47M compared to $0.58M in Q1 2019.
The Company has reduced its working capital deficit by approximately $2.0M, from $3.5M at December 31, 2019 to $1.5M at March 31, 2020. Furthermore, this represents a total $3.6M reduction in working capital deficit from $5.1M at September 30, 2019.
Gross margin of $0.05M at 86% margin in Q1 2020 compared to $0.02M at 76% margin in Q1 2019.
On February 11, 2020, the Company issued 10,000,000 units at a price of $0.065 for cash proceeds of $156,000 and the settlement of debt of $494,000 owed to officers, directors and consultants. Debt settlement of officers and directors of the Company account for $326,794 of the total settlements.
On February 13 and February 24, 2020, the Company issued unsecured convertible debenture units with total principal amounts of $1,764,000 and $276,000 respectively. The debentures mature on February 13 and February 24, 2023, respectively, and bear interest at an annual rate of 2% due semi-annually
Secured a Key Account in Washington state and received deposits of $0.2M and purchase orders for the future order of 4 PIRANHA™ units and a SHARC system with revenue potential of approximately $1.0M anticipated to be fulfilled by summer 2021.
Q1 2020 Accomplishments
Hired Director of Marketing and IT to oversee the overhaul and build out of sales and marketing content and materials and build out IT infrastructure required to scale.
The Company issued notice for all previous sales representation ("Representatives") under Manufacturer Representative Agreements ("MRA") and issued new MRA's that clearly establish terms and conditions that create a clear and transparent relationship between SHARC Energy and its Representatives.
Successfully reallocated internal resources from research and development and technical positions to sales and sales support positions
Appointed 3 Board Members who have collectively invested $0.9M into SHARC Energy over the past year
Pivoted during COVID-19 to begin remote training and sales presentations. On March 27, 2020, the Company held its inaugural Sales and Technical training seminar to approximately 200 sales representatives from across North America and United Kingdom. The Company has been putting on multiple sessions each week with audiences ranging from architects, engineers, Representatives, potential customers and government officials.
In May 2020, SHARC Energy won the opportunity to collaborate on a pilot project funded by the Electric Power Research Institute ("EPRI") after presenting at the Incubatenergy© Labs Challenge. After being selected as 1 of 17 finalists from a pool of over 130 applicants, SHARC Energy made a virtual pitch on April 7th, The Company has now been selected as 1 of 10 companies to demonstrate innovative power delivery and use technologies under the leadership of EPRI, Ameren Corporation, Tennessee Valley Authority and Southern California Edison.
On May 29, 2020, the Company issued unsecured convertible debenture units with a principal amount of $2,000,000. The debenture matures on May 29, 2023 and bears interest at an annual rate of 2% due semi-annually.
On May 29, 2020, the Company settled with all holders ("Debentureholders") of the Company's $1,320,000 and $1,023,000 12% unsecured, convertible debentures which were set to mature on May 30, 2020 and June 29, 2020 (the "Maturing Debentures").The Debentureholders have entered into settlement agreements with the Company (the "Settlement Agreements") pursuant to which the Debentureholders accepted 75% cash payout of the outstanding principal amount of the Maturing Debentures, the payout of any accrued and unpaid interest up to the date of maturity and the amendment of 1,673,571 common share purchase warrants (the "Warrants") in consideration for the cancellation of the Maturing Debentures and a release of the Company's obligations under the Maturing Debentures.
On June 12, 2020, the Company issued unsecured convertible debenture units with a principal amount of $700,000. The debenture matures on June 12, 2023 and bears interest at an annual rate of 2% due semi-annually
"Q1 2020 has been challenging globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic." says Lynn Mueller, Chief Executive Officer of SHARC Energy, "However, SHARC Energy was able to adapt its strategy, continuing to generate awareness and sales lead opportunities through remote sales and training presentations. I am proud of what our team has accomplished. Despite the challenges, we are ready for the opportunities COVID-19 has presented."
About SHARC International Systems Inc.
SHARC International Systems Inc. is a world leader in thermal heat recovery. SHARC systems recycle thermal energy from wastewater, generating one of the most energy efficient and economical systems for heating, cooling & hot water preheating for commercial, residential and industrial buildings. SHARC Energy is publicly traded in Canada (CSE: SHRC), the United States (OTCQB: INTWF) and Germany (Frankfurt: IWIA).
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First up was Lamont's "Animals Parade," from the suite Carnival of the Animals. in style with Rick Taylor's "My Island Heart"; starting out as a brooding tone-poem, rumbling bass, washing cymbals.
Aug 10, 2018. Adapted and arranged by Lauren Fairbairn, poems by Rob Fairbairn. Suitable for students in middle to upper primary school. Charles-Camille.
Oct 30, 2012. For my stick puppets, I printed out the visuals for each poem in the Maestro Classics Carnival of the Animals PDF booklet. If you include a.
Apr 1, 2016. BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE. The (Australian) Carnival of the Animals Music by Camille Saint-Saens, new poem by Bradley Trevor Greive
Oct 13, 2017. Americans aren't generally known for their love of poetry or classical music, Swan," from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.
poems on the. Carnival of Animals. Watch some of the Houston Ballet's rendition of Carnival of the Animals. What instrument represents the different animals?
Following this, poets will share their poems-in-progress. Poets are asked to bring copies. This year, they have been working on an arrangement of "The Carnival of the Animals," the beloved suite by.
His best-known works are Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals), his opera Samson et Dalila, piano and cello concertos, the tone poem Danse.
Composer Steven Serpa tapped a poet of his own era, Jeffery Beam, for "Creatures: A Bestiary Retold," a work whose format recalled Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals – musical settings of.
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Carnival of the Animals. Poems by Ogden Nash. The Lion. The lion is the king of beasts, And husband of the lioness. Gazelles and things on which he feasts.
See more ideas about Carnival of the animals, Carnival and Elementary music. Carnival: Tortoise – Poem by Judith Chernaik, Music by Saint-Saens, Artwork.
The museum was free to enter and had booths, live animals, face painting, carnival games, and a costume contest. The exhibit featured bats from Austin Bat Refuge, owls from Friends of Texas Wildlife,
Poems About Moving To A New Place I cannot open my remarks without addressing the unprecedented events taking place in the United States right now. plan to act to put the right solution on the table—the New Bretton Woods. After blazing a trail for female poets, 73-year-old Eavan Boland is still keen to see the medium moving. be in the poem they
The original 12th century Farsi poems from the Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam will. Orchestra will offer a family-friendly concert featuring Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. Hear the regal lion,
Your audiobook is waiting… Carnival of the Animals audiobook cover art. Sample. Categories: Drama & Poetry, Poetry. 4 out of 5 stars 4.0 (8 ratings). Free with.
The Circus Animals' Desertion. By William Butler Yeats. I. I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so. Maybe at last being but a.
Poems About Losing Your Mind The film anthropomorphizes the five emotions (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear) living inside the mind of a. here are eight quotes from Inside Out that are sure to turn on your waterworks and. Immortal Verses Poetry Book Apr 24, 2019. An anthology of Victorian women poets is a window into their thoughts. Sharkey went
During his lifetime, he was one of the world's most famous composers. Today he is best known for his "Carnival of the Animals," a legacy he would have found hard to swallow; Saint-Saëns wrote the.
The Carnival of the Animals: Articulate & humorous compositions expressing. concertos, his opera "Samson et Dalila," and his tone poem "Danse macabre.".
Carnival of the Animals, Jr. on Friday at 11 a.m. at the library. A menagerie of animals comes alive through whimsical musical portraits by Camille Saint-Saëns and poetry by Ogden Nash. With Charlie.
Find The Author Of A Poem
The author of several poetry collections, as well as five earlier works of essays. Preparing for the dog's demise Lynch.
Photo by Nils on Unsplash. Author's note: The original title of this poem was "Il Miglior Fabbro". It was inspired by T.S. Eliot's famous dedication from "The Wasteland", where he praises Ezra Pound.
Images Of Love Poems For Her Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton has written a poem in tribute to "England's beauty" Princess Diana – a day after the 20th anniversary of her death. The three-time world champion posted the words. Urdu 2 Line Poetry Images Facebook The final verdict today directs that these time-lines which are given by the Government itself must
Sep 12, 2019 · Make sure you read the submissions page to find out how they want you to format your poem before continuing. For instance, some publications prefer blind submissions, meaning you won't put your name on the document itself. Others want your information on every page. Find the button marked "Submit" or "Submissions" on the publication's home page.
Harris, the best-selling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo. On April 2, 1994, Howard Lincoln – who, just months.
Help me find title and author for poem with first line: Slippery sleek he swims th [ 0 Answers ] Who wrote this poem: Slippery sleek he swims the swells, Whiskers waving over wavering wells Swimming slow or fast diving free, lazy summer sleeper leaves The sand for swift fish hunting in the liquid sea.
Poetry Search. To find poems about a topic, simply type a few keywords into the Search Form input box. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your.
David Whyte is a poet, author, speaker and organizational thinker. He lectures to large audiences. leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold.
"Author's Purpose & Point of View" Another area that the F.C.A.T. Reading tests is the author's purpose and point of view. This portion of the test measures your ability to determine the reason why the author is writing the article and how their experiences or beliefs are impacting their writing. Author's Purpose
Aug 11, 2019. This simple step-by-step guide helps poetry seekers learn how to find the full-text or lines from poems online. 10 Steps to Find the Words From Poems Online. In less than 20 minutes, poetry. Emma Lazarus, author of.
Poetry discovers and speaks a truth ordinary language cannot express. And the passionate message in Finding What You Didn't Lose is that we're all poets– capable of giving voice. Author interviews, book reviews, editors' picks, and more.
The poem may have been composed as early as around 700 C.E. and evolved through many retellings before it was finally written down. Regardless, whoever the original author may have been is lost to history. "Beowulf" contains many pagan and folkloric elements, but there are undeniable Christian themes as well. This dichotomy has led some to.
The current Indiana Poet Laureate, Matejka is the author of several critically acclaimed books of poetry, including a.
Of course, Starr is also the author of the collections "Days of Dogs and Driftwood," "Mad With Yellow" and "This Place Here," among other works, and has received two Rhode Island Fellowships for.
Al Alvarez, a British poet, critic and best-selling author who championed the work of Sylvia Plath. novelist and literary critic. Finding writing to be "a solitary, joyless occupation," he sought.
But then something happened that Orr calls "an author's nightmare": The original. "The short chapters made them bearable,
Co-Author Of. With Lucy Calkins & Stephanie Parsons Heinemann 2013. Need a Poem? If you are new here, I welcome you! If you seek a poem, click the "Find a Poem" tab above, and it will take you to a page where you can select poems by topic (dogs) or technique (alliteration). This resource is intended for personal or classroom use, and I welcome.
[Most read] 50,000 food stamp recipients in Cook County may have to find jobs starting Jan. 1. battered copy of the "Norton Anthology of Poetry" containing them, belong to John Green, the.
Your challenge this week is not only to help decipher the poem, but to name the author. I suspect it's someone famous. lines summon a particular historical individual? I'd like to find out who, if.
Feb 21, 2017. Use the author's name/part of the name or poem title. For example, to find " Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, you might use any of the following.
Poems from different poets all around the world. Thousands of poems, quotes and poets. Search for poems and poets using the Poetry Search Engine. Quotes.
Aug 05, 2013 · Do not ask me to remember, Don't try to make me understand, Let me rest and know you're with me, Kiss my cheek and hold my hand.
Author, one who is the source of some form of intellectual or creative work; especially, one who composes a book, article, poem, play, or other literary work.
pleasefindthis (the pen name of Iain S. Thomas) is best known for the I Wrote This For You project, which he began in 2007 as a blog with photographer, J.
In the words of that months-of-the-year poem they make. over to BBC Four to see author Philip Pullman's Imagine episode.
Find Mood Of A Poem on TheWeb. A poem's mood refers to the emotions evoked by the poem's language. When poets use words to specifically inspire feelings of sadness, anger, joy or other emotions, those words contribute to the poem's mood.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Ulysses", portrayed by George Frederic Watts. " Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809–1892), Other critics find stylistic incongruities between the poem and its author that make "Ulysses" exceptional. W. W. Robson writes, "Tennyson, the.
Summary of Lines 13-18 of the poem The Author to Her Book. Line-by-line analysis.
Read, Rate, Comment on or Submit your poetry. Please, if you find an error, please let me know. First Line of Poem, Poem Title, Author, Lines, Views.
Nov 21, 2019 · Determine when the poem was written. See if you can find out when the poem was composed. Determine the time period or date the poem was written or published. Look online for this information and check to see if the publish date is noted on the poem. You should also find out more about where the poem was written, such as the city or country.
Topeka West's author-in-residence workshop, which takes place Nov. 17 and 18. Rabas' advice to students who are in the.
Finding Amateur Poetry Anthologies in Libraries and Bookstores. the only way to locate a particular poem in an anthology is to review the author index at the.
To the Author of Glare – There comes a time when the story turns into twenty.
This poem is written by "Anonymous" in this poem she says that we have to be careful about what we have to speak because it can either break a heart or heal it ,so always choose your words before.
Use the guidelines below to learn how to read a poem and understand it. What is the author's attitude toward his or her subject?. how a word is being used–as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb–so that you can find its appropriate meaning.
Aug 20, 2019. Sometimes the author of a poem gets lost in translation. If Chaplin truly wrote this poem, we should be able to easily find a record of where.
Thank you for the poem! If anyone finds the author I can't find it anywhere! (side note: fantastic film) level 2. readintoitreviews. 1 point · 1 year ago. Thank you. level 1. wecanhope. 31 points · 1 year ago · edited 1 year ago. I think it must have been something original for the film, probably inspired by Rumi.
How Do I Cite a Poem. 3.5 (2) There are no specific guidelines in MLA to cite a poem. Instead, cite the poem in the context in which you found it. For example, if you are citing a poem from a book, use the chapter of a book form to correctly cite the poem. Example: Dickinson, Emily.
Apr 10, 2018. Maybe you only read the poetry you know because it was force-fed to you in. A poet and the author of five full-length collections of poetry…
How to cite a poem – if it is your search query, click here and find a huge number of citing tips! Learn how to make poems or book citation in the specific MLA format, how to cite the title of the poem of any type, include page, numbers of lines, source, etc. Read the article and have no problems with citing poems.
Apr 24, 2019. This guide provides tips for finding novels and other literary works when. or poem without knowing its title or author can be a frustrating and.
Aug 28, 2019. Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 memoir, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird.
Recent release "Hooves; A Donkey Tale" from Covenant Books author Roxanne Kaufman is a poem about a boy and a donkey and the.
Heather Grace's new volume of poems explores the realities of her life as she attempts to reconcile. and the joy that comes with looking into the eyes of a young soul and finding hope once again.
If you think you may have noticed any error or omission, please let us know. unlikely to constitute a 'substantial part', but a few lines of poetry may be. It can be.
He has been an author, playwright, traveller, translator, journalist, theatre and film director. His has been a good run. As.
It is sure to deepen and broaden our understanding of the work and its author, and quite possibly of ourselves as well. It is forty years since my first entranced encounter with Jibanananda Das in.
his poems will bring you more than just that! "The journey will be their reward." It is the author's hope that many, after reading this collection of verse, might have a closer relationship with God.
In Text Citation Apa When No Author Sep 10, 2019 · No Author. If no author or creator is provided, start the citation with the title/name of the item you are citing instead. Follow the title/name of the item with the date of publication, and the continue with other citation details. Note: an author/creator won't necessarily be a person's name. Urdu 2 Line
LUBBOCK, Texas–It's a poetry reading you will not want to miss with national poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of "Felon".
Charles Dickens Stories List
Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). "The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories", p.358, Wordsworth Editions
Riders, which helped Cooper, 82, to sales of 12 million books, joined Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Our Mutual Friend.
Armando Iannucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield is so imaginatively conceived and so gloriously cast – with Dev Patel as Charles Dickens. this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com.
Just three days before his death, a 58 year old Charles Dickens went down to the. "There's a hugely passionate collector community for Dickens," says Gabriel Heaton, a Specialist from Sotheby's.
May 28, 2013 · Famous Dickens Characters. May 28, 2013, zubair, Leave a comment. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, and one of the all-time greatest novelists. He created the greatest fictional characters in the Victorian period and quite a few of them are all-time greatest fictional characters.
Guess whose ideas Charles Dickens put into the mouth of his antagonist Ebenezer. Interesting, isn't it? Later in the story, the Ghost of Christmas Present reminds Scrooge of his earlier words and.
Charles Dickens, 1812–70, English author, b. Portsmouth, one of the world's most popular, prolific, and skilled novelists. Early Life and Works The son of a naval clerk, Dickens spent his early childhood in London and in Chatham. When he was 12 his father was imprisoned for debt, and Charles was compelled to work in a blacking warehouse.
"A grisly little fiction concerning her lovers is [X]'s point. She is always attended by a lover or two, and she keeps a little list of her lovers, and she is always booking a new lover, or striking.
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England. His parents were John Dickens (1785-1851), a naval pay clerk, and Elizabeth Barrow (1789–1863). When Charles was twelve years old, his family moved to Camden, London. He worked in a blacking factory there while his father was in.
Charles Dickens is a famous English novelist of the Victorian era, known for books like 'Oliver Twist', and 'Great Expectations'. Read on for detailed information about his childhood, profile, career and timeline.
Charles Dickens' friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made "characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves." Names of Dickens' characters are some of the most unique in fiction. Characters such as Sweedlepipe, Honeythunder, Bumble, Pumblechook, and M'Choakumchild are recognizable as Dickensian even by those unfamiliar with the stories.
Nov 29, 2016 · —- Charles dickens attitude towards his work at the time was excellent.He obviously loved to write,making so many books & plays that were produced into films. Asked in Charles Dickens , Robinson.
Sep 23, 2019 · Though you may have already read Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations (or at least, seen the movies) Charles Dickens wrote 15 novels before he passed in 1870, and all are heralded as classics.While we can't choose a favorite, we narrowed down our list of Charles Dickens books to his most popular 10, all of which deserve a spot in your library.
Dickens' friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made "characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves." Names of Dickens' characters are some of the most unique in fiction. Characters such as Sweedlepipe, Honeythunder, Bumble, Pumblechook, and M'Choakumchild are recognizable as Dickensian even by those unfamiliar with the stories.
The remainder of the book documents the cultural achievements of dozens of self-emancipated Jews, not all of them A-list.
When an old list of Franzen's rules for writing resurfaced in 2018. That's a lot to ask of fiction, and usually means big,
Feb 01, 2012 · The best Charles Dickens characters To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens this month, a host of Telegraph writers pick their favourite Dickens character.
We should all have our own list of working-class heroes. 1. The Chimes by Charles Dickens For decades this Christmas story was at least as famous and beloved as A Christmas Carol. Its hero, Trotty,
Below is a list of good books that fetch up at bad houses. 8. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Dickens's novel peaks early, with Pip's visits to spooky Satis House (apparently named after a.
This meant that they preferred to keep Charles Dickens off of the list of authors to be read. one chapter at a time in monthly or weekly periodicals. His Christmas books, short stories and.
Top 10 Charles Dickens Novels. Books Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans. By Radhika Jones Feb. 05, 2012. Dickens wrote fourteen and a half novels, which means that any devotee of.
After a celebrated fall season performing Irving's 'Legend,' master storyteller Jonathan Kruk, along with musical accompaniment, returns to bring new life to the classic Charles Dickens story of.
It includes plenty of your favorite holiday stories, and a few titles you might not even know — at least, not yet. It probably comes at no surprise that this Charles Dickens classic is at the top of.
We've put together a list of some of the latest holiday films and specials now available across. "The Man Who Invented.
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas. always ready to point out his failures, Dickens needs to do something before his money completely runs out and his reputation is tarnished forever. His solution? A.
While "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" isn't at the top of the list of the most popular Charles Dickens works. The play is based on Dickens' third novel, which tells the story of a.
Long ago, Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, and Walt Whitman decided to go their own way for some of their most famous works. Here are six well-known books that were originally. "No thanks to".
In his popular story, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens uses the musical term "stave" to indicate the chapters. Dickens was known, on occasion, to use clever terms to describe the sections of his books. For example, in The Cricket on the Hearth, he calls the chapters "chirps."
Charles Dickens Books show list info. This is all of Charles Dickens that have been published. How many of them have you read.????? 191 users · 468 views made by Erin. avg. score: 5 of 20 (24%) required scores: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 list stats leaders vote.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English Victorian era author wrote numerous highly acclaimed novels including his most autobiographical David Copperfield (1848-1850); "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that.
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812.The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author.
Oct 03, 2012 · Here are some interesting facts about the Victorian writer, Charles Dickens, the author of many classic novels, including, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. Often described as the 'quintessential Victorian author', Dickens's stories are enjoyed just as much today as they were by his nineteenth century readership.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most famous writers of the nineteenth century. As well as writing 15 novels, numerous short stories, biographies and editing journals, Dickens.
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children. His mother had been in service to Lord Crew, and his father worked as a clerk for the Naval Pay office. John Dickens was imprisoned for debt when Charles was young.
Charles Dickens created characters with some of the most memorable (and sometimes silly) names in literary history. Here is a (non all-inclusive) list of them. (side note: just about any of these would make a good band name– can't you see it now.
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