Talk of Alaska: NEA President, Barb Angaiak

Tue, January 19, 2010 
Posted in Alaska Native Education, Talk of Alaska

What attracts a teacher to a school in rural Alaska, and what does it take to keep a good teacher there?

Is Alaska offering what good teachers need? The new president of the state teacher’s union is a math teacher from the Lower
Kuskokwim School district.

Meet Barb Angaiak on the next Talk of Alaska.

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HOST: Steve Heimel, APRN

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LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, Jan, 19, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. on APRN stations statewide

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  • tempteach
    I spent three school years in three different places in Alaska and would have stayed and worked in that same community another year if I was asked to return but all three times my return was reviewed and the politics of the higher ups of Principals and Superintendents prevailed. The politics in administration is such that if someone doesn't like you, they can bring your profession career down without recourse. The native people who are on the school boards have very little knowledge or power to over rule these school administrators who clearly do not have the children's education at heart when they quickly cut the relationships that are established with teachers/counselors during the the nine months of school contact. Too much politics with the ruling class of administrators in Ak. Too much power over children's lives and they themselves function at the most dyfunctional level of human relationships. High divorce rates. Drug and alcohol abuse and use.
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