Charlie Should Get the School Board Job
So I attended this Community Center for Education Results' The Road Map for Education Results kickoff today (I'm tired just typing all that). More on that later but they had breakout sessions that, like most conferences, were a lot better than the speeches. One was about Seattle Schools and Data (the word transparency was used). It figured out favorite manipulator of data, Brad Bernatek and a couple of other SPS women (a data coach and a data steward). They went through the creation of the School Reports and how they used MAP and how they could put together data as a " trigger " to help students. Fine, I'm sure other districts are interested. Now Dorothy had been in the first session of this information and told me Brad apologized for the 17% stat. Indeed he did. He called it a " good lesson for all of you ". He explained how it came about and that last year they had changed it to "TBD" (first I heard of this) and they were not ...