"I like our district's perspective. Indicators like test scores and AYP are part of what we use to determine where we place our focus. It isn't THE focus."
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student achievement and Adequate Yearly Progress
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kevin Johnson Sep 19, 2009. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Question:If you're a high school and everyone graduates and you don't make AYP, Is that bad?Continue
Tags: achievement, AYP
Good Teachers make Good Students
Started Sep 15, 2009 0 Replies 0 Likes
As the Curriculum Specialist overseeing 25 middle and high schools with 220 mathematics teachers, I believe that the best chance of increasing student achievement is to increase the effectiveness of…Continue
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The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Johnathan Chase Sep 12, 2009. 29 Replies 0 Likes
My school district is allowing the principals in each school to decide if the speech will be shown to students. I think (maybe) each teacher will decide.
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Kevin Johnson replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion student achievement and Adequate Yearly Progress
Peter Cincotta replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion student achievement and Adequate Yearly Progress"Kevin,
I like all of those answers!
It seems like the only "punishment" to not making AYP is embarrassment. (Sorry, I can't spell embarassment.)
To me, bigger issue is higher student achievement and higher graduation rates. If you…"
Kevin Johnson replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion student achievement and Adequate Yearly Progress"Lots of potential ways to answer that.
Bad because of the bad PR associated with it?
Bad because of the extra resources needed to address consequences?
Good because it may spur improvement beyond just graduating everyone?
Moot because we're…"
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Question:If you're a high school and everyone graduates and you don't make AYP, Is that bad?See More
Peter Cincotta posted a discussionGood Teachers make Good Students
As the Curriculum Specialist overseeing 25 middle and high schools with 220 mathematics teachers, I believe that the best chance of increasing student achievement is to increase the effectiveness of teachers. To this end, I am running a Professional Development series of sessions on Effective Teaching Strategies. We will meet six times during the school year. Each time I will seek to bridge research with practice by selecting a topic (such as Formative Assessment, Explicit Instruction, and…See More
"Check out student writings inspired by several music videos along with President Obama's speech.
Follow link below for more details...
My Education, My Future"
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The video of the NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDREN is also available on the "classroom friendly" Whitehouse media website."
dsmith replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?"Tough day to hold this event. . .first day of school for us. The IT department made sure that the broadcast was available in the districts, but it was the building principals call as to whether or not teachers woud show it in their rooms. Plan B…"
"I am shocked that in a country that espouses democratic principles that some individuals believe that the President's address to future civil participants in unethical or out of the bounds of his abilities. I wonder if some of those same people…"
Brien Dick replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?"I find it disappointing that you feel the need to edit our president. This only makes the prejudices of those who disagree with him appear right. Part of my job as a teacher is to teach students to listen to both sides of a position before judging.…"
Dale Ehrhart replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?"I think you should give a new president at least 2 1/2 years before you openly despise him. :-)"
Peter Cincotta replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?"The calm and silent (overwhelming) majority have prevailed."
Dale Ehrhart replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?"My children are home for day, and don't seem afflicted by any of the horrors some people were imagining. Either that, or I'm ensnared by the icy grip of insert scary word here and don't realize it."
Peter Cincotta replied to Peter Cincotta's discussion The President's Speech to Students. Who's watching it?"President Obama delivered a speech that restated something that all teachers believe: Students must take ownership of their learning."
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- I taught middle and high school mathematics for 13 years. I am currently the Curriculum Specialist for Secondary Mathematics. My interests include Mathematics Education, Data Analysis, Large Scale Assessments, Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers, and Understanding how students learn mathematics.
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- At 10:13am on September 4, 2009,
Teresa Garceau said…
- Administrators have agreed to play the speech for 4th grade only (K-4 school), in the library. Will report how it went...
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