Edwize and teacher voice. Boo.

Leo Casey will likely become UFT HS VP tomorrow. One of his stock phrases, often found on Edwize, the UFT blog that is associated as much with his voice as it is with the union’s, is, in fact “Teacher Voice.” Ironic, then, that we find an awkward discussion of “teacher voice on Edwize.”

Edwize has been running clips of public education-related stories from the major and minor NY dailies. I complained once that there were too many Post and Sun clips for anyone who wanted to hold down their breakfast.

What does “Teacher Voice” mean in the context of Edwize?

This weekend I saw several stories that our members in the affected schools would have something to say about. But ‘our’ blog doesn’t include teacher voice in these stories, just Postvoice, Newsvoice, Timesvoice, Sunvoice… So I suggested: When there is a hot issue about a school, why don’t we call the Chapter Leader and get teacher voice too?

There was only one commenter who agreed that teacher voice should extend to Edwize, but 3 more who seemed to disagree. Ouch. I must not have made my point well. So I wrote to clarify. But, this teacher’s voice? Moderated!

(For the record, they’ll see it’s me, and they will release the comment. But for a blog that’s letting spam through every day to moderate me?) Roll eyes and move on. The big issue is getting Edwize to call Chapter Leaders for quotes.