WNPR Interviewed Some Connecticut Teachers

On March 4th, WNPR's Where We Live hosted an evening panel discussion with teachers from across the state in order to accommodate their schedules which don't line up with a live morning call-in show. They invited educators to join in the audience, and hosted the following guests:


Liz Natale is a West Hartford teacher who wrote a popular op-ed for The Hartford Courant in January called, Why I Want To Give Up Teaching.

Ebony Murphy-Root is a lifelong Nutmegger and middle school humanities teacher on the faculty of a private school in New York City. She's owned a home in Hartford since 2008 and has taught in the capital city. She recently wrote "'Did You Grow Up Around Black People?' My Year Working for 'America's Most Trusted Educator.'"

David Low teaches aquaculture technology and mathematics at The Sound School in New Haven and is vice president of high schools for the New Haven Federation of Teachers. In 2012, he was named the New Haven Public Schools' teacher of the year.

David Bosso is a social studies teacher at Berlin High School and he was named the 2012 Connecticut Teacher of the Year. He has written several op-eds, including one on the role of teachers in the Sandy Hook shooting.


The video for the program is wonderful and you can watch it in its hour-and-a-half entirety here. Or, you can spend around 30 minutes enjoying the parts that I liked enough to clip for this post...


So teachers feel there is a lack of respect toward them as professionals in what they do...




They shared their thoughts about the data...




They spoke about federalizing education...




How this all actually affecting the kids...




About how Connecticut had already been doing well; the problem is an economic one...




And finally, how education has changed over the last decade...