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Stopping by Hale High on a Hot August Night
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Hey, look who was at tonight’s Seattle Schools community meeting at Nathan Hale High School.
More info to come - it was a good meeting.
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Awesome said…
Great to see you attending SPS meetings!
Anonymous said…
Welcome back to Seattle - no where more beautiful than Seattle in the summer - and hate to say it but certainly better than Tucson in the summer :-)
Welcome back! Sorry we couldn't have arranged milder weather for you.
Anonymous said…
Thanks for the photo, memes incoming!
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Anonymous said…
I’ll be interested in you and others’ responses to these meetings. They seem set up well enough, with professional and courteous staff and conversation facilitators. Several participants at my table voiced concern about the sunsetting of advanced learning without any replacement, and the problems of curricula like Amplify that have a low floor and even lower ceiling. But my overall sense is that advanced learning or differentiated instruction of any sort is a low, low priority. Leaves me resigned to either supplementary homeschool or look to other school districts, and saying a prayer for the academically gifted children far from educational justice who might want extra enrichment and accelerated learning!
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
Update 2: an absolutely fabulous interactive map made by parent Beth Day (@thebethocracy on Twitter - she covers Board meetings and is fun to read). end of update Update 1: Mea culpa, I did indeed get Decatur and Thornton Creek mixed up. Thanks to all for the correction. end of update I suspect some who read this post will be irate. Why do this? Because the district seems very hellbent on this effort with no oversight skid marks from the Board. To clearly state - I do not believe that closing 20 schools is a good idea. I think they hit on 20 because they thought it might bring in the most savings. But the jury is still out on the savings because the district has not shown its work nor its data. I suspect closing schools and THEN leasing/renting them is the big plan but that means the district really has to keep the buildings up. But this district, with its happy talk about "well-resourced schools" is NOT acknowledging the pain and yes, grief, that is to come fro
Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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