Insert Transformative Practices Here.
Consider this a fact-finding mission.
Here’s some context: I am new to the district I work in, meaning I just started here in July. I was hired to come in and supervise three departments, three departments that had not been supervised (in the traditional sense–whatever that is–) before. Curriculum had been looked at, but a group effort to make it flow from K-12 hadn’t been attempted.
In New Jersey schools are grouped according to something called a District Factor Group, which is a value consisting of wealth components and educational levels of the residents taken from the most recent census data. The group we belong to is very close to the highest (on and scale that rates them A-J with A being the lowest, we aren I). The top two socio-economic levels usually comprise most of the top performing schools within the state. Withing that group, we rank near the bottom in most of the measurables society uses to gauge
