I'm going to call the book..... ok. It will open doors of understanding that you can't predict.Every educator, ESPECIALLY those of Latino and Blacks students, should read this book.

The focus is also much more of his childhood and personal life, with relatively little of the book actually about his experience teaching. I wish that I had read this book before I became a teacher leader. Then he applied to the New York City Teaching Fellows, another alternate program but one that (unlike TFA) prepares teachers who are likely to make a career in the classroom.

I have followed José’s banter on Twitter for some years now. Ciceromar has 994 books on Goodreads and is currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Te…

First of all, I admire Vilson's courage as a current teacher to write.

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He writes:Jose Luis Vilson gives his readers a heavy dose of honesty, self-reflection, and insight. I remember the day his blog got blocked through the DOE filter and thinking, yup he's made it to the big time. I can’t wait to read the book. As a native southerner and a journalist who’s written often about rural schools, I too see the surprising connections between Jose Vilson’s urban experience and the educational plight of rural children in poverty. He was accepted, worked with a cohort, and eventually earned a degree from City College of New York.The balance of the book describes Vilson’s experiences in the classroom. “This Is Not A Test opens with a poem and continues reading like one – full of imagery, rhyme, and hip hop rhythm. If you order it from Haymarket Books, you’ll support the enterprise that made this book possible. Jose Vilson’s This is Not a Test avoids these traps with a narrative that is by turns passionate and funny, angry and vulnerable, and full of keen insight born of on-the-ground experience in schools.

Other descriptions felt like an unbelievable scene from a movie where I marvel at how a seemingly shared experience can have so little in common. But he has also written an inspiring account of what it means to teach. I currently teach in an urban district high school and found myself validated in the pages of this book. Once you open it, you won’t put it down until you’re done.

“You have completed your test.” This book is a must read for any urban educator.

His blog, thejosevilson.com, is immensely popular. Education reform landed on us.But these thoughts are for another time.

In it he shares his experiences as a student, and addresses the challenges he faced as a new teacher, his growth amid the educational policies, and his current unwavering determination to speak for fellow educators, parents, and children.This is Not a Test! It “makes lessons more profound” for children and adults alike, he says, citing Paulo Freire’s description of the cyclical nature of being a student and a teacher, in his Vilson’s frank appraisal of the state of American public education may make some readers uneasy. Fellows receive a stipend to offset cost-of-living expenses during training. May 27th 2014 I remember the day his blog got blocked through the DOE filter and thinking, yup he's made it to the big time. Even as he studied his major field, he had some concern about spending the rest of his life staring at computer code. How many people can say, as Vilson, does, that they love what they do? Welcome back. Hopefully this book will encourage more teachers to stand up for their students and themselves. Instead you, a teacher, a teacher of color more specifically, are left with something that you own and can use any which way you want--your voice. Not just any math teacher. This is a must read for teachers, especially those who work with students who have been marginalized in the past and present. He grew up in a mixed-race family (a Haitian father and Dominican mother), so he is both black and Hispanic.

This book really spoke to me and my passion for teaching: "Teaching grasps the soul like a finger probing, not clenching, the heart.

This is not for the faint of heart. “They help explain why I write as I do.

It’s only a diagnostic test anyway!”), I let my inner Jose out.“Well, let me see.” I flip through the pages. He cuts through all of the flowery language and platitudes and excuses we hear far too often, and speaks truth on issues where honest truth is often absent.

- Barnett Berry Vilson is a gadfly, an education activist, and a “griot,” or spokesman, for all those who are not just tired of the direction our policy makers have taken in the name of reform but are willing to do something to challenge it. ""Vilson delivers a resounding shout against educational policy for exhibiting rampant cultural illiteracy, and sounds a galvanizing rallying cry for teachers and students to make their voices the most rather than least considered in future developments. In its telling, Jose Vilson’s evocative collection of essays are ferociously honest and, as expected from someone whose creative impulses are informed by hip-hop, unapologetic and lyrical. José Luis Vilson is doing something very brave and very necessary in This Is Not a Test: he is letting us breathe the air his students breathe. Be the first to ask a question about This Is Not A Test To understand where he came from and how he became a teacher. I found Jose's blog a few years ago through another favorite blog of mine, jd2718. I felt, though, that the collection lacked cohesion.

First of all, I admire Vilson's courage as a current teacher to write.

By telling his own story and those of his students, Vilson shows why teacher voice is essential to shedding the failures of the past and to reclaiming the promise of public education.” by Haymarket Books

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