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REPORTER, WRITER, STORYTELLER IN SAN ANTONIO, TX- BEKAH MCNEEL Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest. Bekah McNeel June 16,
2020.
PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More » THE INTEGRATION DIARIES: THE MOST RADICAL THING A PARENT The Integration Diaries: The most radical thing a parent can say. Sometimes the kids are alright. Sometimes they aren’t. My husband and my son co-working during COVID-19. When they announced that schools would be closed beyond spring break this year, I have to confess the grim thoughts that ran through my head. ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
"THE CHILDREN STILL CANNOT READ." HOW I BECAME CONVINCED At the 2019 Education Writers Association National Conferece, Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County said that taking down Confederate monuments, and renaming dorms is “great.” He said it in such a way though that implied a “but” was coming. And it did. Symbolic gestures are “great” he explained, but they are aren’t “The children still SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL'S ENTIRE CLASS OF 2020 SAT THROUGH Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story has been updated with comments from SAISD Board President Patti Radle.) The sun was just starting to peek out from around early morning clouds at 8:30 am on June 16, threatening to bake the 187 graduates from Sam Houston High School and their families. But Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat SAISD APPROVES NEW GENERATION OF AUTONOMOUS SCHOOLS At tonight’s meeting the San Antonio ISD board of trustees unanimously approved management agreements for 18 district schools, and new in-district charter applications for 13 schools. Nineteen schools total were a part of SAISD’s newest generation of autonomous schools. The applications go to the Texas Education Agency on April 1. The charter applications are the SAISD MEET DOUG DAWSON, THE GUY YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY MET Doug Dawson does not sound, look, or act like the kind of guy who might wake up to find himself at the center of conspiracy theories and public outrage. But that’s what happened on March 26, after it was announced that the Teach for America alum and former Texas Education Agency bureaucrat would be heading Meet Doug Dawson, the guy you should have already met. Read More » %8? 48??< ?=? 5B82>B5248 Camelot Clear Spring Colonial Hills El Dorado Larkspur Olmos Wilshire AMP Bush Harris Bradley Bulverde Creek Cibolo Green EST Hardy Oak Huebner Garner Wood Oak Meadow REPORTER, WRITER, STORYTELLER IN SAN ANTONIO, TX- BEKAH MCNEEL Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest. Bekah McNeel June 16,2020.
PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More » THE INTEGRATION DIARIES: THE MOST RADICAL THING A PARENT The Integration Diaries: The most radical thing a parent can say. Sometimes the kids are alright. Sometimes they aren’t. My husband and my son co-working during COVID-19. When they announced that schools would be closed beyond spring break this year, I have to confess the grim thoughts that ran through my head. ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
"THE CHILDREN STILL CANNOT READ." HOW I BECAME CONVINCED At the 2019 Education Writers Association National Conferece, Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County said that taking down Confederate monuments, and renaming dorms is “great.” He said it in such a way though that implied a “but” was coming. And it did. Symbolic gestures are “great” he explained, but they are aren’t “The children still SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL'S ENTIRE CLASS OF 2020 SAT THROUGH Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story has been updated with comments from SAISD Board President Patti Radle.) The sun was just starting to peek out from around early morning clouds at 8:30 am on June 16, threatening to bake the 187 graduates from Sam Houston High School and their families. But Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat SAISD APPROVES NEW GENERATION OF AUTONOMOUS SCHOOLS At tonight’s meeting the San Antonio ISD board of trustees unanimously approved management agreements for 18 district schools, and new in-district charter applications for 13 schools. Nineteen schools total were a part of SAISD’s newest generation of autonomous schools. The applications go to the Texas Education Agency on April 1. The charter applications are the SAISD MEET DOUG DAWSON, THE GUY YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY MET Doug Dawson does not sound, look, or act like the kind of guy who might wake up to find himself at the center of conspiracy theories and public outrage. But that’s what happened on March 26, after it was announced that the Teach for America alum and former Texas Education Agency bureaucrat would be heading Meet Doug Dawson, the guy you should have already met. Read More » %8? 48??< ?=? 5B82>B5248 Camelot Clear Spring Colonial Hills El Dorado Larkspur Olmos Wilshire AMP Bush Harris Bradley Bulverde Creek Cibolo Green EST Hardy Oak Huebner Garner Wood Oak Meadow PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » THE INTEGRATION DIARIES: SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND HAIR BOWS On August 12, we put our kids in a public school committed to socioeconomic diversity, where they are among the 6 percent of kids who look like them. It’s going very well. They are learning how to speak Spanish while half of their classmates learn English. My kindergartener is adding, subtracting, and reading up a The Integration Diaries: School supplies and hair bows Read More » THE MCNEELS CHOOSE A SCHOOL, PART SEVEN: MY VERY FAVORITE So, there’s a dark horse contender in our school search. It’s only a dark horse because it’s outside of our school district, and quite frankly, an SAISD family fleeing to Northside is about the oldest trope in the San Antonio conversation. Though the school I’m about to write on is a Title I school, with The McNeels Choose a School, part seven: My very favorite school. Read More » WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SAFETY AND When I first started reporting on school discipline, I thought there was near consensus on the need to move toward restorative practices. Just like there’s near consensus that you shouldn’t scream at your kids. Restorative practices seek to move kids toward the behavior you want, with less emphasis on the behaviors being left behind. At What we talk about when we talk about safety and MEET DOUG DAWSON, THE GUY YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY MET Doug Dawson does not sound, look, or act like the kind of guy who might wake up to find himself at the center of conspiracy theories and public outrage. But that’s what happened on March 26, after it was announced that the Teach for America alum and former Texas Education Agency bureaucrat would be heading Meet Doug Dawson, the guy you should have already met. Read More »PRO-BOOB PROPAGANDA
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IT'S HERE! EVERYBODY HAS A TAKE ON THE TX HOUSE'S SCHOOL It’s here! It’s here! No, not the phone book. The Texas House’s bill, “The Texas Plan” to overhaul the State’s love-to-hate school finance system. Now, every public school advocate will tell you, “this is a start.” But it’s also the best start Texas has seen in decades, and before horse-trading with the ultra-conservative Texas Senate It’s here! Everybody has a take on SMALL GIRL MOWS SMALL LAWN A local six-year-old stunned many last week by doing what, she said, “no six-year-old has ever done before, probably.” She mowed half the lawn. San Antonio resident Moira McNeel said she’d taken on the task, “Just to see if I could do it. Not for fun.” Her father confirmed that the endeavor was, in fact, Small Girl Mows Small LawnRead More »
%8? 48??< ?=? 5B82>B5248 Camelot Clear Spring Colonial Hills El Dorado Larkspur Olmos Wilshire AMP Bush Harris Bradley Bulverde Creek Cibolo Green EST Hardy Oak Huebner Garner Wood Oak Meadow REPORTER, WRITER, STORYTELLER IN SAN ANTONIO, TX- BEKAH MCNEEL Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest. Bekah McNeel June 16,2020.
PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More ABOUT - BEKAH MCNEEL Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for nine years. Her work has appeared in print with Christianity Today, The San Antonio Current, and the Public Justice Review, as well as online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More »LIVING WITH ANTS
Living With Ants. This is the second in a multi-part series in which I talk about mental health through metaphors in the natural world. Because mental health should be part of our natural worlds. As much as we tend our skin, muscles, and bones we should do for our brains andnervous system.
#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL'S ENTIRE CLASS OF 2020 SAT THROUGH Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story has been updated with comments from SAISD Board President Patti Radle.) The sun was just starting to peek out from around early morning clouds at 8:30 am on June 16, threatening to bake the 187 graduates from Sam Houston High School and their families. But Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat "THE CHILDREN STILL CANNOT READ." HOW I BECAME CONVINCED At the 2019 Education Writers Association National Conferece, Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County said that taking down Confederate monuments, and renaming dorms is “great.” He said it in such a way though that implied a “but” was coming. And it did. Symbolic gestures are “great” he explained, but they are aren’t “The children still ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
PRO-BOOB PROPAGANDA
Pro-Boob Propaganda. Though he died when I was only 18, Billy Wilder seemed to have a knack for imprinting things on my brain. It was he who said that Audrey Hepburn “might single-handedly make bosoms a thing of the past.”. He was also the one who directed Marilyn Monroe, in Some Like It Hot, to lament that, because of her boobs,“nothing
REPORTER, WRITER, STORYTELLER IN SAN ANTONIO, TX- BEKAH MCNEEL Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest. Bekah McNeel June 16,2020.
PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More ABOUT - BEKAH MCNEEL Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for nine years. Her work has appeared in print with Christianity Today, The San Antonio Current, and the Public Justice Review, as well as online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More »LIVING WITH ANTS
Living With Ants. This is the second in a multi-part series in which I talk about mental health through metaphors in the natural world. Because mental health should be part of our natural worlds. As much as we tend our skin, muscles, and bones we should do for our brains andnervous system.
#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL'S ENTIRE CLASS OF 2020 SAT THROUGH Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story has been updated with comments from SAISD Board President Patti Radle.) The sun was just starting to peek out from around early morning clouds at 8:30 am on June 16, threatening to bake the 187 graduates from Sam Houston High School and their families. But Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat "THE CHILDREN STILL CANNOT READ." HOW I BECAME CONVINCED At the 2019 Education Writers Association National Conferece, Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County said that taking down Confederate monuments, and renaming dorms is “great.” He said it in such a way though that implied a “but” was coming. And it did. Symbolic gestures are “great” he explained, but they are aren’t “The children still ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
PRO-BOOB PROPAGANDA
Pro-Boob Propaganda. Though he died when I was only 18, Billy Wilder seemed to have a knack for imprinting things on my brain. It was he who said that Audrey Hepburn “might single-handedly make bosoms a thing of the past.”. He was also the one who directed Marilyn Monroe, in Some Like It Hot, to lament that, because of her boobs,“nothing
ABOUT - BEKAH MCNEEL Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for nine years. Her work has appeared in print with Christianity Today, The San Antonio Current, and the Public Justice Review, as well as online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More » THE INTEGRATION DIARIES: THE MOST RADICAL THING A PARENT The Integration Diaries: The most radical thing a parent can say. Sometimes the kids are alright. Sometimes they aren’t. My husband and my son co-working during COVID-19. When they announced that schools would be closed beyond spring break this year, I have to confess the grim thoughts that ran through my head.#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » CONTACT - BEKAH MCNEEL 2021 Bekah McNeel. San Antonio Web Design by Southtown Designs.Search
ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
THE MCNEELS CHOOSE A SCHOOL, PART SEVEN: MY VERY FAVORITE So, there’s a dark horse contender in our school search. It’s only a dark horse because it’s outside of our school district, and quite frankly, an SAISD family fleeing to Northside is about the oldest trope in the San Antonio conversation. Though the school I’m about to write on is a Title I school, with The McNeels Choose a School, part seven: My very favorite school. Read More » THE MCNEELS CHOOSE A SCHOOL, PART FIVE: WHAT'S IN A When applying for SAISD’s choice programs, parents may choose three programs per child. While we started out with the ambitious goal of visiting about five schools before applying, by the time we visited our top three choices, we were pretty much set. Both kids are in the lottery for Steele Montessori. Moira went on the The McNeels Choose a School, Part Five: What’s in a neighborhood MEET THE GATHERING PLACE, ONE OF SAN ANTONIO'S NEWEST AND One of San Antonio’s newest charter schools will hit the ground running this fall with a professional development opportunity in partnership with the DoSeum. The Gathering Place, which was approved by the State Board of Education on June 14, will lead a cohort of teachers from across the city in a project-based learning collaborative designed Meet The Gathering Place, one of San Antonio UNION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BOARD CANDIDATES SPOTLIGHTS Just the other day I asked a member of the San Antonio Alliance, the San Antonio ISD teachers and support staff union, whether relations with the district administration had improved at all. She demurred. But today I got my answer. They have not. The Alliance distributed a questionnaire, printed below in its entirety, to vet Union questionnaire for board candidates spotlights specific REPORTER, WRITER, STORYTELLER IN SAN ANTONIO, TX- BEKAH MCNEEL Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest. Bekah McNeel June 16,2020.
PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More ABOUT - BEKAH MCNEEL Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for nine years. Her work has appeared in print with Christianity Today, The San Antonio Current, and the Public Justice Review, as well as online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More »LIVING WITH ANTS
Living With Ants. This is the second in a multi-part series in which I talk about mental health through metaphors in the natural world. Because mental health should be part of our natural worlds. As much as we tend our skin, muscles, and bones we should do for our brains andnervous system.
#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL'S ENTIRE CLASS OF 2020 SAT THROUGH Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story has been updated with comments from SAISD Board President Patti Radle.) The sun was just starting to peek out from around early morning clouds at 8:30 am on June 16, threatening to bake the 187 graduates from Sam Houston High School and their families. But Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat "THE CHILDREN STILL CANNOT READ." HOW I BECAME CONVINCED At the 2019 Education Writers Association National Conferece, Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County said that taking down Confederate monuments, and renaming dorms is “great.” He said it in such a way though that implied a “but” was coming. And it did. Symbolic gestures are “great” he explained, but they are aren’t “The children still ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
PRO-BOOB PROPAGANDA
Pro-Boob Propaganda. Though he died when I was only 18, Billy Wilder seemed to have a knack for imprinting things on my brain. It was he who said that Audrey Hepburn “might single-handedly make bosoms a thing of the past.”. He was also the one who directed Marilyn Monroe, in Some Like It Hot, to lament that, because of her boobs,“nothing
REPORTER, WRITER, STORYTELLER IN SAN ANTONIO, TX- BEKAH MCNEEL Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest. Bekah McNeel June 16,2020.
PORTFOLIO - BEKAH MCNEEL Portfolio The Texas Tribune – January 6, 2021 In San Antonio, an ambitious effort to expand pre-K is crumbling as parents shield their children from the pandemic After years of work and tens of millions of dollars spent, about 90% of the city’s 4-year-olds were in pre-K programs. Now enrollment has dropped and the dream Portfolio Read More ABOUT - BEKAH MCNEEL Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for nine years. Her work has appeared in print with Christianity Today, The San Antonio Current, and the Public Justice Review, as well as online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More »LIVING WITH ANTS
Living With Ants. This is the second in a multi-part series in which I talk about mental health through metaphors in the natural world. Because mental health should be part of our natural worlds. As much as we tend our skin, muscles, and bones we should do for our brains andnervous system.
#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL'S ENTIRE CLASS OF 2020 SAT THROUGH Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story has been updated with comments from SAISD Board President Patti Radle.) The sun was just starting to peek out from around early morning clouds at 8:30 am on June 16, threatening to bake the 187 graduates from Sam Houston High School and their families. But Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat "THE CHILDREN STILL CANNOT READ." HOW I BECAME CONVINCED At the 2019 Education Writers Association National Conferece, Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County said that taking down Confederate monuments, and renaming dorms is “great.” He said it in such a way though that implied a “but” was coming. And it did. Symbolic gestures are “great” he explained, but they are aren’t “The children still ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
PRO-BOOB PROPAGANDA
Pro-Boob Propaganda. Though he died when I was only 18, Billy Wilder seemed to have a knack for imprinting things on my brain. It was he who said that Audrey Hepburn “might single-handedly make bosoms a thing of the past.”. He was also the one who directed Marilyn Monroe, in Some Like It Hot, to lament that, because of her boobs,“nothing
ABOUT - BEKAH MCNEEL Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for nine years. Her work has appeared in print with Christianity Today, The San Antonio Current, and the Public Justice Review, as well as online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. I'LL CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES AND HIDE YOU IN THE WALLS One night in college, a group of girls in my dorm were hanging out, getting philosophical about empty threats. Like the professor who was way too lazy to make everyone rewrite the papers he would have to then reread. Or the student life staff member who would not actually remove our dorm doors if we “I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.” Read More » THE INTEGRATION DIARIES: THE MOST RADICAL THING A PARENT The Integration Diaries: The most radical thing a parent can say. Sometimes the kids are alright. Sometimes they aren’t. My husband and my son co-working during COVID-19. When they announced that schools would be closed beyond spring break this year, I have to confess the grim thoughts that ran through my head.#ILIKETOTRAVELBUT
A friend of mine coined a hashtag that makes me laugh. #ILiketoTravelBut. I like to travel butI hate sitting in coach. I like to travel butI don’t like losing money to the exchange. That kind of stuff. But lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about travel’s place in the soul, or at least my soul. #ILiketoTravelBut Read More » CONTACT - BEKAH MCNEEL 2021 Bekah McNeel. San Antonio Web Design by Southtown Designs.Search
ADVENTURES IN LITERACY: WHY YOUR KID'S TEACHER NEEDS I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss. In my last post on literacy and curriculum, I was having brain-melt over the lack of phonics instruction in schools. Balanced literacy, critics told me (or I read), was just phonics-less whole language and everything is terrible. Meanwhile, my Adventures in Literacy: Why your kid’steacher
THE MCNEELS CHOOSE A SCHOOL, PART SEVEN: MY VERY FAVORITE So, there’s a dark horse contender in our school search. It’s only a dark horse because it’s outside of our school district, and quite frankly, an SAISD family fleeing to Northside is about the oldest trope in the San Antonio conversation. Though the school I’m about to write on is a Title I school, with The McNeels Choose a School, part seven: My very favorite school. Read More » THE MCNEELS CHOOSE A SCHOOL, PART FIVE: WHAT'S IN A When applying for SAISD’s choice programs, parents may choose three programs per child. While we started out with the ambitious goal of visiting about five schools before applying, by the time we visited our top three choices, we were pretty much set. Both kids are in the lottery for Steele Montessori. Moira went on the The McNeels Choose a School, Part Five: What’s in a neighborhood MEET THE GATHERING PLACE, ONE OF SAN ANTONIO'S NEWEST AND One of San Antonio’s newest charter schools will hit the ground running this fall with a professional development opportunity in partnership with the DoSeum. The Gathering Place, which was approved by the State Board of Education on June 14, will lead a cohort of teachers from across the city in a project-based learning collaborative designed Meet The Gathering Place, one of San Antonio UNION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BOARD CANDIDATES SPOTLIGHTS Just the other day I asked a member of the San Antonio Alliance, the San Antonio ISD teachers and support staff union, whether relations with the district administration had improved at all. She demurred. But today I got my answer. They have not. The Alliance distributed a questionnaire, printed below in its entirety, to vet Union questionnaire for board candidates spotlights specificToggle Navigation
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for five years. Her work has appeared online with the Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, the Texas Tribune, the Hechinger Report, The 74 Million, and numerous local outlets. Bekah writes primarily on education, from beat coverage to in-depth analysis of state and local education trends. San Antonio’s 16 independent school districts, community college system, city-operated prekindergarten, and numerous colleges and universities have yielded a range of stories, from profiles of exceptional students to controversial and innovative initiatives to improve failingschools.
Texas being Texas, Bekah has also covered the State Legislature’s battle over school choice and the various lawsuits filed by school districts against the state. Known for her ability to communicate the high stakes of education policy, and bring clarity to complex systems, Bekah has tackled some of the most complicated topics in Texas education, including the school finance system, which the Texas Supreme Court called “sclerotic” and “byzantine.” Her work outside of education has included coverage of the 2017 human smuggling tragedy in San Antonio, the city’s attempts to regulate pay-day lending, and local elections. Bekah is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where she earned a MSc in Media Studies. She is married to Lewis McNeel, an architect with Lake | Flato. They have two young children who, while they do not yet have careers, are very busy.READ MY FULL RESUME
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