Dan Brown

This post is about the newest twitterer I am following, Dan Brown. He is the Executive Director of Future Educators Association, an organization for high school students who plan to become teachers. Mr. Brown is a certified teacher as well. He often tweets about standardized testing and new technologies to use in the classroom. On the 15th he retweeted an interesting article from the Washington Post by Valerie Sheets titled "Teacher to parents: About THAT kid (the one who hits, disrupts and influences YOUR kid)" It is written by a teacher to parents about a disrupting student. The article is about how the teacher can not tell parents what is wrong with another disruptive child that isn't their own, but that she is doing her best. This article is heartbreaking. It is a window into the life of a teacher dealing with a child that might have a rough background. I can see why Mr. Brown retweeted it. It is useful to not only teachers but also parents who might worry a disruptive child might be getting in the way of their child's education. I agree with everything she writes and highly recommend reading the article.