Seattle Schools and the Search for a Superintendent
The Board had a meeting of the entire group (without Carr) to discuss how to look for a superintendent. It was a lot of logistics talk about finding the right search firm.(I will try to get a electronic copy of the document they were working off of from Erin Bennett.)They will be putting out an RFP around October 3rd and will decide on a firm by early December. There was no firm date for the app
Seattle Schools Updates
Teacher of the year (hint: from SPS), what's in the Mayor's budget for public education, breakfast on the go and the bell times taskforce. Great news - the Washington State Teacher of the Year is Lawton's Lyon Terry. From OSPI:Lyon is a National Board Certified Teacher. He has taught at Lawton since 2005 in 2nd, 3rd and multi-age classrooms, where he focuses on creating confident, hard-working an
Public Ed Stories (with a tie-in to our discussions)
One story is absolutely horrifying and appalling and ties right into the situation around the Garfield field trip incident. The other story is about how treating more kids as "gifted" makes them perform better.The rape story from the Huffington Post:An Alabama middle school is accused of using a special-needs student as “bait” in a sting operation that allegedly led to her rape. The alle
Seattle Schools This Week
I'm going to add in some events about public education as well this week.This week is, once again, Banned Books Week. How many have you read?Tuesday, September 23rdMayor Murray will be releasing his budget for the our city. It might be interesting to see how much money he is allocating for the new department of Early Learning and Education.There also appears to be a meeting - not a district one
9-21-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Does Seattle Public Schools have a Broken Governance Model?At every Board Retreat the Board discusses their governance model. They don't have a formally stated model, but they are loosely working towards using a sort of Carver Policy Governance Model in which the Board sets expectations (the ends) - both for outcomes and for limitations on methods - and the superin