We should be using our professional voices to speak up, but there is a fear in teachers and administrators I've never seen before," said Ms. Rief, who in 2000 was named Middle School Teacher of the Year by the National Council of Teachers of English.
Back at MIT, Leiserson proposed similar training for professors, saying to administrators, "I've seen how training can prevent human-level mistakes that cause untoward fallout.
In my last 12 years as a youth sports fan, soccer coach, club administrator and league administrator, I have seen that Knight and his ilk serve as role models for far too many youth sports coaches.
As a New York City school administrator, I have seen how Chancellor Joel I. Klein's efforts with Children First and parent coordinators have demanded that improved instruction be every school's top priority while fully engaging parents as partners in their children's education.
Furthermore, I am not a school administrator; I have no experience of handling such situations on an institutional level, and I'm happy with how my school handled this when I brought it to their attention.
Ms. Rief described Mr. Richard as "the most positive administrator I've ever worked with".
"Except that he's a good administrator, I've heard no other reason" for his nomination, Senator Cardinale said, explaining his Mussolini remark.
As a former boys' school administrator, I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Thompson speak numerous times.
I'm lucky that I am both a teacher and an administrator, so I have seen both sides.
Being a school administrator, which I have been for six years, is tough because we often have to answer to the public when they do not like what we are doing.
