This final post will be a reflection on the time I have spent on the KIPP blogs as well as a feelings check going into the final dissertation. The past two posts I submitted were compiled weeks after I had actually done the work.  While I believe working on the project has been important and […]

I wrote up a project parameters to send to JB and would like to include it below.  This act helped me to solidify what I was doing and wrap my mind around what the sole purpose of my project was about.  Some of this was changed, added to, or taken away from in the final […]

I have been doing a lot less reflecting and a lot more actual writing of ideas and solidifying those ideas.  I have included below the notes that I took with me to my supervisor meeting and the notes that I left with my supervisor meeting with.  The meeting took place on March 28th, 2023.  Even […]

Over the break, I honestly tried not to think of my project.  The whole idea was stressing me out.  So my first step was to reread my project proposal and figure out what I had put down (and whether or not now this was a good plan.  This became a great exercise because I essentially […]

Project Identity When looking into more literature, I was able to discover some studies discussing public perception and teachers, namely, “Americans’ Views of Public School Teachers and Personnel in the Wake of COVID-19” by Doonan and Kenneally (2022).  Not only is this source recent and relevant, it asks a great deal of the questions that […]

A little late in posting this week: Though I have not fully come to a conclusion on what my final project will be, discussions with peers and through courses has helped to identify a good route for what my project will center around.  I believe I have officially settled on discussing the retention of teachers, […]

  Pros and Cons List Last week (more like three days ago), I looked into the literature there currently was surrounding my topic.  While this was not a comprehensive literature review/search, I wanted to get a good idea of what information I was working with.  As I am currently deciding between two topics at the […]

As I said last week, my first step was to analyze the current literature in each of my possible chosen topics so that I can see what information I have to work with and where there is a gap in the literature.  I have also developed what I believe to be two of my questions […]

Original Thoughts As I said in my week one post, I am interested in comparing America’s approach to their treatment of teachers with another country or region’s treatment of teachers, potentially analyzing current policies in each of the countries or even in attitudes towards their own professions.  I am fairly confident that I want to […]

Last week I tested my soft skills, this week I think I’ll record the hard ones.  While I know that hard skills are not necessarily actual physical skills, look up what they are made me think of this website I found a few months ago that tests your computer reflexes which I found was quite […]