Kelly Goodman
@kelgoodman.bsky.social
Teacher educator and adjunct prof in PA. Historian of teachers’ unions, school finance, and my students’ interests; currently: immigration and ethnicity, school security/safety & disability #EduSky
Zohran’s key communications staffer has multiple history degrees…pretty good alt-ac career path
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Zohran’s key communications staffer has multiple history degrees…pretty good alt-ac career path
Scroll down to the reviews…he’s a libertarian
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Scroll down to the reviews…he’s a libertarian
Defense contractors used canned curriculum and pay-for-performance contracts in Indiana and Texas K-12 schools a decade earlier—Amy Offner has written about this. The technology came from liberals in the Johnson administration as well as conservatives in the Tennessee legislature
October 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Defense contractors used canned curriculum and pay-for-performance contracts in Indiana and Texas K-12 schools a decade earlier—Amy Offner has written about this. The technology came from liberals in the Johnson administration as well as conservatives in the Tennessee legislature
Redistricting was the labor movement’s preferred remedy for unequal school tax bases in the 1960s. What’s old is new! 🙃
September 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Redistricting was the labor movement’s preferred remedy for unequal school tax bases in the 1960s. What’s old is new! 🙃
What is the Philly source?
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What is the Philly source?
And the 20 year olds take out loans to pay tuition and living costs because they’re too busy to work for money the semester they student teach. My PA students often have so many courses to take for certification they student teach in their fifth year
May 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
And the 20 year olds take out loans to pay tuition and living costs because they’re too busy to work for money the semester they student teach. My PA students often have so many courses to take for certification they student teach in their fifth year
www.juliakuo.com/portfolio/i-... This great children’s book teaches Wong Kim Ark’s story to elementary school students
I Am An American - A children's picture book illustrated by Julia Kuo
Learn about the story of Wong Kim Ark, an American-born Chinese man who paved the way for the children of immigrants to receive American citizenship
www.juliakuo.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
www.juliakuo.com/portfolio/i-... This great children’s book teaches Wong Kim Ark’s story to elementary school students
I teach at a teacher prep program nearby and shockingly preservice teachers assigned to the school for field courses went back a week after charges were announced
April 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I teach at a teacher prep program nearby and shockingly preservice teachers assigned to the school for field courses went back a week after charges were announced
Schools don’t need AI to make teachers machine tenders. I keep trying to sub social studies in Philly and the middle school students are just doing iReady
April 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Schools don’t need AI to make teachers machine tenders. I keep trying to sub social studies in Philly and the middle school students are just doing iReady
Students are asking for a short piece on the history of feminization in teaching. Are there any you like?
April 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Students are asking for a short piece on the history of feminization in teaching. Are there any you like?
Why would MS and LA and OH be models for MA etc.?
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Why would MS and LA and OH be models for MA etc.?
Beginning teachers take a few years to memorize the curriculum and experiment with the lessons that work best for their students. If a school retains teachers then no individual student learns from *only* beginning teachers.
April 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Beginning teachers take a few years to memorize the curriculum and experiment with the lessons that work best for their students. If a school retains teachers then no individual student learns from *only* beginning teachers.
Different lessons, same point about technology changing work. Pedagogy is the *art* and science of teaching.
April 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Different lessons, same point about technology changing work. Pedagogy is the *art* and science of teaching.
There’s a difference between script and curriculum. Teachers might teach industrial growth by having students wrap math cubes like a Hershey’s kiss then play a video about the history of automation OR they might have students sort coal from slate then share pictures of the mechanical coal picker.
April 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
There’s a difference between script and curriculum. Teachers might teach industrial growth by having students wrap math cubes like a Hershey’s kiss then play a video about the history of automation OR they might have students sort coal from slate then share pictures of the mechanical coal picker.
19th c. administrators dreamed of knowing what each teacher taught every minute of the day according to historian David Tyack
April 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
19th c. administrators dreamed of knowing what each teacher taught every minute of the day according to historian David Tyack
William J. Reese’s America’s Public Schools surveys the 19th century common school movement. Workingmen’s parties of the 1830s wanted high quality public schools. Bruce Dorsey wrote about the Philadelphia bible riots of 1844.
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
William J. Reese’s America’s Public Schools surveys the 19th century common school movement. Workingmen’s parties of the 1830s wanted high quality public schools. Bruce Dorsey wrote about the Philadelphia bible riots of 1844.