Brian Bollman in Cape Girardeau Provides Report of the DESE Delphi Technique in Practice.
Announcement: DESE has indicated it will take questions electronically if you could not make one of the meetings DESE held around the state. Email your question(s) to:
Susan Potter Communication Coordinator
We will be publishing reports on the various DESE meetings on this blog the next several days.
Thanks to Brian Bollman for his post on the meeting in Cape Girardeau. From rockinconservative.com andDESE Common Core Meeting / A lesson in controlling the message:
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I attended the DESE Common Core Meeting at 6:30pm on 05/02/13 in Cape Girardeau, MO at the Career and Technology Center, and what I witnessed was mastery of controlling the message. Of course, there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance; this is the school! Prayers are forbidden by the Constitution and the Pledge is offensive. (/sarc)
The sound quality was ridiculous, and I have no idea the name of the gentleman that led the event. He worked through a PowerPoint presentation including videos by educators that could not be understood due to the poor sound.
STL Today Article on DESE Common Core Meeting at Lindbergh School District
From stltoday and Critics question Common Core education standards at St. Louis County meeting:
It didn’t take long for the crowd packed into a Lindbergh School District meeting room Thursday to become irritated with the woman giving them an overview of the Common Core Standards.
Maureen Clancy-May, an area supervisor with Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, told the crowd of about 150 that the standards were developed by states to better prepare students for the global economy and for college.
“Tell us the truth!” one man yelled from the crowd.
Read more here.
It should be noted the Lindbergh presentation was the only meeting around the state where the crowd refused to
The Delphi Technique Did Not Work at the Lindbergh DESE Meeting. People Were "Mad As Hell and They Were Not Going to Take This Anymore".
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An overflow crowd (150 people estimate) packed a too small meeting room for DESE's presentation on Common Core. Here is the press release announcing the statewide meetings for last night. Apparently citizens were under the impression they would receive answers to their questions about Common Core but this was not DESE's intention. At the beginning DESE representative Maureen Clancy-May announced DESE would not answer any questions. Clancy-May stated that she may not even know the answer to many of the questions. DESE was there to present, break up into discussion groups, gather the questions, reveal the questions to the larger group, then take them back to Jefferson City so the citizens can be informed at some other date.
This is a classic Delphi Technique used to diffuse and control the message as facilitators would ask the question, take the information and then present it to the larger group. The people who actually ask the