For Teachers, By Teachers, About Teachers: Supporting Teachers to Support Students, Learning and Literacy

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Teacher Testimony
The purpose of the teacher testimony project is to collect the voices of teachers about how various reform efforts. cultural, community. school and classroom conditions affect the quality of instruction, student experience, and teacher lives. We are collecting one-page letters from teachers which we will share with legislators, service clubs and other members of the community.
We are partnering with two community organizations to support teachers, and even more importantly the students who we all serve.  Please check out these two websites, each with an associated Facebook page that you can click to from the site:

http://boiseidaho.net/YesForBoiseSchoolsCom/ is the campaign to pass the Boise schools levy on March 13. We need people willing to support that effort through encouraging others to vote for it, donating to help cover campaign expenses (everything is run by volunteers; expenses are for direct-mail and such), and volunteering.

http://idahoparentsandteachers.com/ is the website of Idaho Parents and Teachers Together, the group that formed to provide an alternative to Luna's Students Come First plan. They have successfully placed referenda questions on the ballot for next November to overturn the plan and provide a progressive alternatie. The group is conducting a survey that they'd like all Idahoans concerned about public schools to take at http://greatidahoschools.org; they''ll use it to formulate ideas for school policy that will involve, hopefully, hundreds or thousands of people, unlike Tom Luna's plan which was written by a few power brokers.

PLEASE HELP US!
 PLEASE join us for our teacher testimony workshop on 12/22 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.   Email jwilhelm@boisestate.edu for details.