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Monday, June 10, 2013

UPDATE: Seattle Schools Community Forum: It's Your Choice

Seattle Schools Community Forum: It's Your Choice:


Board Evaluation, Part Two

Blogger is getting wonky so I will start a new thread on it.

Bob Ness, the Alliance's favorite facilitator, is leading the Board conversation on the findings.

What is the goal for this discussion?

Director Carr - commit directionally to some of the recommendations on slides 18 and 22.  (She does not want 

Board Evaluation Work Session

I am going to attempt to do some live blogging from the Board's Work Session to evaluate their work.

I had wonder how this might go and I already see some unfamiliar faces sitting in the Board waiting area (they look like consultants) and the facilitiator, Bob Ness, that the Alliance likes to use.

Quite by coincidence (I'm sure), the Alliance released some study they did on "effective" school boards.   I only read the executive summary but didn't see anything particularly new or striking in the work.

The meeting starts in a few minutes so let's see how this goes.


It's Your Choice

Here's what inBloom - the "cloud" student data system that the Gates Foundation is setting up says about students:

Every student is an individual, with unique knowledge, abilities and learning needs. But the technology used in most K-12 schools today can make providing personalized instruction time-consuming and cumbersome for teachers.

Meanwhile, states, districts and educators implementing the Common Core State Standards have set new goals for student learning, and they need effective tools and resources to ensure students meet those goals.

Better, more integrated technology and data analytics can help by painting a more complete picture of student learning and making it easier to find learning materials that match each student’s learning needs. Unfortunately,