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This perspective-hopping debut follows teachers at an urban high school as their professional lives impact their personal lives and vice versa.
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.Â
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.
PDF Adequate Yearly Progress A Novel Roxanna Elden 9781732098701 Books
"I was hoping for satire and a smile in between grading papers during my winter break. Instead, I was presented with more of the same perspectives that I get daily on social media. The tipping point was the short-term teaching corps character, clearly modeled after Teach for America and its close relatives who states: "Growing up with a father who watched awful Republican "news" and thought all minorities were criminals had made her careful to guard against any hint of racism in her own thoughts." At this point, I closed the book and stopped reading.
As a former TFA member who is now a career teacher, it's clear to me that the author didn't do her research in building her characters. As a teacher, I believe we're all in this together, and this book just serves as another way to pit us against each other on issues that really matter."
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Adequate Yearly Progress A Novel Roxanna Elden 9781732098701 Books Reviews
- 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.
- 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.
- I was hoping for satire and a smile in between grading papers during my winter break. Instead, I was presented with more of the same perspectives that I get daily on social media. The tipping point was the short-term teaching corps character, clearly modeled after Teach for America and its close relatives who states "Growing up with a father who watched awful Republican "news" and thought all minorities were criminals had made her careful to guard against any hint of racism in her own thoughts." At this point, I closed the book and stopped reading.
As a former TFA member who is now a career teacher, it's clear to me that the author didn't do her research in building her characters. As a teacher, I believe we're all in this together, and this book just serves as another way to pit us against each other on issues that really matter. - Ever wondered what it’s like to be a classroom teacher? This funny and lighthearted novel offers a glimpse into the world of teaching, from the neverending barrage of new acronyms to the daily struggles that even the most seasoned veterans still have to face. Whether you’re a classroom educator or not, these characters are relatable and real. There is something for everyone in this book - you will find yourself identifying with the bubbly history teacher who learns that no matter how much you blog about your “perfect†classroom, all it takes is one unexpected circumstance to throw things into a hilariously cringeworthy disaster, or the science teacher who, despite his clever and effective teaching methods, still has to deal with bureaucratic evaluation methods that threaten his career. AYP is a novel that doesn’t waste the reader’s time with the usual portrayal of the teaching profession; this is an honest take on a job that few people truly understand, without the clichés you find on every apple-related “#1 Teacher†Hallmark gift. You’ll laugh, you’ll commiserate...but mostly, you’ll get a well-crafted lesson on what it can be like to do one of the most misunderstood jobs in America, and why it’s worth it to come back and do it again year after year.
- I teach high school English. This book completely captures what has become of education in America. Every single one of these characters can be found in a high school in this country. Teachers won't be surprised at who gets the slip at the end; non-teachers will benefit from the peek inside the "real life" of education. Elden wonderfully captures the unfortunate but accurate nuances that this profession has become from the lies we tell because asking for help results in a reprimand (Kaylee), to the surface level "fixes" of essential questions and daily goals that don't really result in quality teaching, to the one who gets the slip (not telling - but if you're a teacher, you won't be surprised).
Every teacher should read this book. Every administrator should read this book as well - and if you find yourself having anything in common with the leadership at Brae Hill Valley, MAKE CHANGES IMMEDIATELY!!! - 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.
- This book is amazing!! Every single character was a perfect fit for people I have encountered in my 37 year career. More than any book or film I have seen, this book gets what it is like to teach at a school that is under the gun over test scores. So good! The descriptions of the superintendent and the consultant are spot on, as is the “write on the board†requirements. I loved this book.
