Friday Open Thread
Join the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, Class Size Matters and
the NYS Allies for Public Education for a brief webinar on Tuesday, October 3rd at 8:00pm Eastern.
Registration is required so please sign up today here.
If you can’t join us on Tuesday, don’t forget to check out and use the Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy, created by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy.
I will just note that it may pay to ask your teacher about any cloud platforms that are being used in class and if your child has been signed up to one. You have the right to at least be notified about this kind of action and what data has been used and who has access to it (including third-party vendors).
SPS wants input on middle school math textbooks. I don't see a cut-off date but you can view them online and in-person at several middle schools.
One of my favorite children's books gets a stamp.
Speaking of favorite books, it's Banned Book Week.
Good editorial from the Seattle Times on the state needing to support more students in high ed/advanced training.
Patu - Raconteur, 9-11 am
Burke - Greenwood Library, 1:30-3:00 pm
Geary - Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney Place, 6951 62nd Avenue NE, 1-2:30 pm
What's on your mind?
Registration is required so please sign up today here.
If you can’t join us on Tuesday, don’t forget to check out and use the Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy, created by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy.
I will just note that it may pay to ask your teacher about any cloud platforms that are being used in class and if your child has been signed up to one. You have the right to at least be notified about this kind of action and what data has been used and who has access to it (including third-party vendors).
SPS wants input on middle school math textbooks. I don't see a cut-off date but you can view them online and in-person at several middle schools.One of my favorite children's books gets a stamp.
Speaking of favorite books, it's Banned Book Week.
Good editorial from the Seattle Times on the state needing to support more students in high ed/advanced training.
Washington institutions provide an excellent - and reasonably priced - education for the students who make it to college. The next goal must be to dramatically increase the number of students who walk that path.Three community meetings with Board directors tomorrow (I urge you to go chat them up on the SAP):
Patu - Raconteur, 9-11 am
Burke - Greenwood Library, 1:30-3:00 pm
Geary - Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney Place, 6951 62nd Avenue NE, 1-2:30 pm
What's on your mind?
Comments
I can't find much info about this work, but what I have found is concerning.
Minutes of the September 28, 2016 Board Oversight Session that covered 24-credit requirement include these:
"Ruth Medsker then reviewed the Continuing progress in transition to 24 credits slide, speaking about their first principals’ meeting and describing the ideas behind high school re-visioning. When noting the Overarching Goals slide, she stated that the timing is urgent for this effort and that they are working to implement the recommendations of the 24 Credit Task Force.
Does that include the 3x5 schedule recommendation??? I thought there were huge concerns about the ability to offer AP and IB classes under this schedule, and that the task force acknowledged they knew there were potential issues but didn't didn't bother to look into them before recommending it anyway?
The only other reference to schedules is this: Director Harris said she is wondering about trimester systems and noted the existence of positive community feedback on that possibility.
Well, maybe from the vague and leading survey, but this really can't be considered positive feedback re: the 3x5 schedule specifically. The logistical problems and possible trade-offs were never disclosed to those taking the survey. It was basically like asking someone "Hey, do you want more free time? Ok, you got it. We just switched your position to half-time. Why are you looking at me like that? You SAID you liked the idea of more free time...!"
So...where do things stand? What's happening now, and when--and to whom--can parents advocate?
DisAPPointed
- wondering
You are correct, looks like the last P223 report was for June 2017.
Last school year, the Sept 2016 data was released on 9/21. So they are a week behind for the Sept 2017.
QA parent
HP
In my conversations with others, including Assoc. Supt. Tolley, constituents, and fellow Board members, have consistently voiced this concern.
Cordially,
Leslie Harris
SPQS Dir. Dist. 6
VPQ, Chair Audit & Finance
leslie.harris@seattleschools.org
206.475.1000
Leslie
DisAPPointed
please
Just hoping you are managing to communicate this information to the rest of your constituents.
Your blog input is great unless the communication stays confined to those who already know who to access what they need.
Information is power. Many people never know what's going on until it's too late.
Translated Message
Article by a teacher who toured KIPP like charter schools in UK and saw some really robotic kids squashed into a dystopian Big-Brother like atmosphere. It was chilling to read. All joy was sidelined in slavish devotion to 'efficiency'. Eye-opening read about what really goes on in these extreme zero-tolerance schools.
No KIPP
Thank you SPS Mom.
-StepJ
Fix AL
-court watcher
"Issue: Whether an educational setting constitutes a child's “then-current educational placement” under 20 U.S.C. § 1415(j) simply because it is the placement listed in an individualized education program drafted by the school district, when the parents objected to the portion of the IEP listing that placement, and the child never actually attended that placement."
-court watcher
HP