Advisory and Advocacy Groups
I'm looking for some help. If the School-Families Partnership Advisory Committee is going to be composed, in part, by representatives from the various advisory and advocacy groups in Seattle Public Schools, then I'm going to need a list of them.
Can folks please add the names - and contact information if available - of any district advisory or advocacy groups to this thread?
Please help me keep the thread clean by not discussing the relative charms of the various groups. I'm trying to put together an unedited list. If you want to discuss a group's merits I will be happy to create all of the threads we need for that.
I'll start with the ones I know:
League of Educator Voters
Community and Parents for Public Schools - CPPS
Parent Teacher Student Association - PTSA
Save Our Schools - SOS
First Place
Accountability Coalition Concerned about Equity in Seattle (ACCESS)
Campaña Quetzal
Refugee and Immigrant Parent Advocacy Network (RIPAN)
The Black Child Development Institute-Seattle Affiliate
Special Education Advisory and Advocacy Council
APP Advisory Committee
Spectrum Parent Advisory Panel
Safe Schools Coalition
Citizen's Campaign for Commercial-free Schools - CCCS
Coalition to Undo Racism Everywhere - CURE
Thanks for the help!
Can folks please add the names - and contact information if available - of any district advisory or advocacy groups to this thread?
Please help me keep the thread clean by not discussing the relative charms of the various groups. I'm trying to put together an unedited list. If you want to discuss a group's merits I will be happy to create all of the threads we need for that.
I'll start with the ones I know:
League of Educator Voters
Community and Parents for Public Schools - CPPS
Parent Teacher Student Association - PTSA
Save Our Schools - SOS
First Place
Accountability Coalition Concerned about Equity in Seattle (ACCESS)
Campaña Quetzal
Refugee and Immigrant Parent Advocacy Network (RIPAN)
The Black Child Development Institute-Seattle Affiliate
Special Education Advisory and Advocacy Council
APP Advisory Committee
Spectrum Parent Advisory Panel
Safe Schools Coalition
Citizen's Campaign for Commercial-free Schools - CCCS
Coalition to Undo Racism Everywhere - CURE
Thanks for the help!
Comments
As I previously posted, there is a group called
African American Community Action Team.
This is faciliated by Dawn Bennett, a district employee, serving, I believe, as intermediary between parent/student/community members of this group and district administrators.
The AACAT meets regularly, and discusses, as I understand it, points of particular interest to African American students and others in the city.
I believe that Ms. Bennett reports to someone in the "School-Families" part of the district admin.
They print Teach For America's compaints that seniority, by inference, favors the old, stale, cynical, clueless teachers. You know, those with experience? Those with ideas for reform based in that experience? Those whose ideas of reform might not conform to what some might want when they say "reform"?
I guess experienced teachers are too old, too experienced (too expensive)and too independent a lot to get with the reform program de jure.
They also get someone from the Brookings Institute to weigh in: "There is strong evidence that TFA educators do at least as well and sometimes better than other teachers [after five weeks training?]...they are a source for reform in public schools, and it will be a loss if they’re not there.”
Ka-ching! the check's in the mail, Brookings Institute!
Here's the webpage:
http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/090816-the-battle-between-unions-and-young-teachers.html
(and "hello" to you, WV!)
Powerful Schools http://www.powerfulschools.org
Sucessful Schools in Action
http://www.schoolsinaction.org
Rainier Scholars
http://www.rainierscholars.org