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Here are some interesting articles District Deeds received and discovered during the past week…

ENJOY! 

 

National Group Sharply Criticizes State’s Plan for Every Student Succeeds Act

 

Quote from Article:

Bellwether Education Partners gave California low ratings of 1 or 2 on a 5-point scale in six of nine categories, and a high score of 4 in only one. The state ranked particularly low in how it will identify the lowest-performing schools needing help and then measure how those schools are improving. It got a high score for high-quality assessments and academic standards, tied to preparing students for college and careers.

Using the 9 measurements it created to evaluate the first round of state applications, Bellwether and a team of experts found the state’s latest version, published Aug. 9, deficient or vague in many areas. The State Board of Education is not expected to make significant changes in the final version it will adopt and forward to Washington next month.

Bellwether Report: “An Independent Review of California’s Draft ESSA Plan”

District Deeds Synopsis:

Wow – “deficient or vague in many areas”…sounds like the ridiculous 2017 LCAP and LCFF that San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Supt. Cindy Marten cooked up and her crony Trustees Richard Barrera, John Lee Evans, Kevin Beiser, Mile McQuary and Sharon Whitehurst-Payne GOBBLED UP and approved this summer with no questions asked despite testimony from Members if the LCAP Committee (including the President of the Teachers Union) saying they were forced to make LCAP recommendations with NO ACCESS to the actual LCFF budget.

Given the financial, operational and ethical track record of Marten and the current Board of Education, what are the odds that the “deficient or vague” ESSA guidelines from the State of California will force the SDUSD to accurately report on the 9 Measurement Criteria?

Slim and none.

 

The Urban-School Stigma

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Urban schools don’t inspire much confidence these days. Politicians and policy leaders routinely bemoan their quality. And media outlets regularly run stories of “failing urban schools.”

Middle- and upper-income parents have expressed misgivings, too. But they’ve done it much less volubly. With relatively little fuss, they’ve simply picked up and moved—departing from city school systems at ever-greater rates. Among expressions of no-confidence, this has arguably been the most significant, because it has reshaped district demography. Each year, it seems, urban schools serve larger concentrations of poor students, racial minorities, and English-language learners. As higher-income families depart, resources go with them, and schools are faced with the daunting prospect of doing more with less.

If such departures are driven by good information about school quality, one can hardly blame parents with resources for acting in the best interests of their children.

Yet what if the information people are acting on is inaccurate or misleading?

Video From Article:

District Deeds Synopsis:

An interesting article that approached School Choice and Integration from an interesting perspective.  District Deeds is not sure that we believe in all the conclusions of this article but it definitely made us think about how we perceive certain schools within the SDUSD and made us try to think of ways we could help make them better,

Definitely worth a read.

What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do

The profession’s vision for accomplished teaching.

Quote from Article:

THE FIVE CORE PROPOSITIONS:

1. TEACHERS ARE COMMITTED TO STUDENTS AND THEIR LEARNING.
2. TEACHERS KNOW THE SUBJECTS THEY TEACH AND HOW TO TEACH THOSE SUBJECTS TO STUDENTS.
3. TEACHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING AND MONITORING STUDENT LEARNING.
4. TEACHERS THINK SYSTEMATICALLY ABOUT THEIR PRACTICE AND LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE.
5. TEACHERS ARE MEMBERS OF LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Full Document: NBPTS What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do

District Deeds Synopsis:

District Deeds thought that with SDUSD Schools opening tomorrow, Monday, August 28,2017, this wold be a good resource document for all SDUSD Stakeholders, especially Teachers and Parents to review and determine if each of these “Five Core Propositions” are actually being fully acknowledged and addressed in the classrooms.

The document is clearly written strictly from a Teacher/School District perspective which gives parents a good inside view into what Teachers and School Districts feel is most important versus what the Parents or Students might think is critical for success.

Very interesting.

Now, in honor of SDUSD Schools opening tomorrow, here is the quote of the week for all Parents sending out their Student seedlings and the schools receiving them:

“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.”

– Muriel Rukeyser

Have a Great Week…and a Great 2017/2018 School Year!!!

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NOTE TO ALL SCHOOL SITE STAKEHOLDERS BEING FORCED TO REPLACE THEIR PRINCIPAL IN THE  2017/18 SCHOOL YEAR:

District Deeds Recommends the following past blog posts exposing the fake SDUSD Principal Selection Process:

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