Title: Adequate Yearly Progress Pdf A Novel
Author: Roxanna Elden
Published Date: 2018-08
Page: 320
Roxanna Elden combines eleven years of experience as a public school teacher with a decade of speaking to audiences around the country about education issues. Her first book, See Me After Class, is a staple in school districts and educator training programs throughout the country, and her work has been featured on NPR as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Education Week, and many other outlets.
Each year brings familiar educational challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one of Texas's bigger cities. But the school's teachers face plenty of challenges of their own. English teacher Lena Wright, a spoken-word poet with a deep love for her roots, can never seem to satisfy her students that she's for real. Hernan D. Hernandez is confident in front of his biology classes, yet tongue-tied around thewoman he most wants to impress: namely, Lena. Down the hall, math teacher Maybelline Galang focuses on the numbers as she blocks out problems whose solutions aren't so clear, while Coach Ray hustles his football team toward another winning season, at least on the field. Recording it all is idealistic history teacher Kaytee Mahoney, whose blog gains new readers by the day but drifts ever further from her in-class reality.
And this year, a new celebrity superintendent is determined to leave his own mark on the school--even if that means shutting the whole place down. The fallout will shake up the teachers' lives both inside and outside the classroom.
Funniest, snarkiest book about teachers, hands down. This is definitely the funniest book dealing with teaching I've read yet. I was a teacher for 6 years and I can totally relate to everything in here! The bureaucratic nonsense, the testing overkill, the student behavior problems that somehow become a reflection of the teacher who sees them for an hour and a half every couple of days...It's so relatable, but also hilarious. The humor is really snarky and sarcastic. Teaching is the backdrop, and part of the plot, but there are also all these interwoven subplots--relationships starting and faltering and ending, rebellious kids, difficult sibling relationships--that keep it really lively and entertaining. I finished reading this in a couple of days. I would highly recommend it to any teacher, especially middle school or high school teachers, but I think it would still be funny and entertaining to non-teachers, especially parents of teenagers.This is spot on satire Never have I read a book that I could relate to more than this one. The characters, the insanity of "benchmarks" and testing culture, charter school threats...each detail is spot on in this witty and charming novel. Adequate Yearly Progress does not veer into silliness, though, and this is what I appreciate most. The level of satire is just enough to make any classroom teacher snort. However, the dialogue that a young, idealistic teacher encounters as she meets the parents of students fighting in her class could be verbatim from an experience that I had during my second year of teaching. It was uncanny. The characters are likable, and the ending is so, so brilliantly done. (I won't give anything away, but it made me laugh with its cleverness.) All in all, this was a fun and entertaining read for this career educator.The most absurd plot points involving teaching are actually pretty realistic. Some of the most surreal and over-the-top events in this book were actually on par with my own experiences as a teacher. Most of the teacher characters were not set up as either paragons or villains; at some point, the layers were peeled back to show how most of them got there. There were also some truly poignant moments. The resolution felt somewhat contrived to me - the ending is a bit too much like magical realism to fit the rest of the book’s tone - and no teachers I know have that much free time during weekday evenings hang out at clubs. But overall, an enjoyable read that also provoked some deeper thinking on my own profession.
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