Scope and Sequence, Alignment and Walk-Thru, Oh My
I have been to many, many Work Sessions. This current one, Teach and Learning: Part One of Curriculum and Instruction, takes the cake.
A dense, voluminous presentation with more edu-speak than you can shake an eraser at. Department head Shauna Heath is a master of this verbage. Right now, the directors are struggling to get this verbage understood. At one point she said they still needed to define "curriculum." She also said this:
"We are systemitizing our systems to compare apples to apples."
A dense, voluminous presentation with more edu-speak than you can shake an eraser at. Department head Shauna Heath is a master of this verbage. Right now, the directors are struggling to get this verbage understood. At one point she said they still needed to define "curriculum." She also said this:
"We are systemitizing our systems to compare apples to apples."
I have no idea what she means but it sounds very busy.
Staff also had a comparison of FTE for their department compared to other districts - nationally and regionally - and Director DeBell asked about Bellevue. It turns out for that particular slide (21 but you won't find the numbering because they stopped numbering the slides after 20) staff only looked at websites and did not call the districts themselves. So our staff was making an visual assessment of another district's org chart and deciding