This past week, across the district, and at all grade levels, children as young as eight-years old (3rd grade) have been told to take yet more time out of what’s left in the year to fill out an evaluation on their teachers. Our children are evaluating our teachers.
Once again, following the failing lead of other “reformers” [...]
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Children Evaluating Teachers
This past week, across the district, and at all grade levels, children as young as eight-years old (3rd grade) have been told to take yet more time out of what’s left in the year to fill out an evaluation on their teachers. Our children are evaluating our teachers.
Once again, following the failing lead of other “reformers” [...]
What The One to One Digital Initiativ...
Picture this. You’re a fly on the wall on Friday morning, and you’re in one of any of our Huntsville City Elementary Schools. As all elementary students (and I hope parents) are aware, Friday tends to be the default testing day in school. It’s the day when students are tested on all the things they learned during the week.
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Common Core Is Testing
On Wednesday of this week, the Alabama State Senate’s Education Committee “delayed indefinitely” consideration of a SB190, the bill to revoke common core standards in the state. It seemed that that was the end of the discussion concerning Common Core (or as Alabama has labeled CCSS “Alabama’s College and Career [...]
Alabama Leads by Repealing Common Cor...
On February 12th, the Alabama House (HB254) and Senate (SB190) Republicans introduced a bill that would repeal the Common Core State Standards Initiative by prohibiting the Alabama State Department of Education from adopting the Common Core and end the collection and sharing of data on students and teachers except in specific circumst [...]
The New Computer Deal: Higher Fees an...
So it seems that the superintendent has decided to change the computer deal in the middle of the year. But of course he hasn’t decided to share it with any, you know, legally responsible adult.
Instead, he’s decided to just threaten children and have third graders walking around wondering what they have done wrong.
If you remembe [...]
STAR Testing A District To Death
When the superintendent wishes to throw himself a party, he tends to do it right. Last Thursday during the Board’s Work Session meeting (which they call “work sessions” so they can exclude public comments at the end), the Superintendent had Alabama Representatives singing his praises for his PTA Superintendent of the Year a [...]
Wardynski Puts Propaganda Before Stud...
UPDATE: Because WAFF has edited their story to remove the name of the high school where the female student is being transferred to, I have removed it as well. However, Dr. Wardynski did in fact reveal the name of the high school in his original comments to WAFF. I have included a screen capture of the story below with the name of the s [...]
What Else Should We Be Doing To Save ...
There’s an excellent conversation happening on yesterday’s post Caveat Emptor Computers in the Classroom. If you care to know what your children’s teachers really think about the digital conversion, give it a look. In addition to those details, there was one question in particular that stood out to me.
What else should we b [...]
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