Seattle Schools Community Forum

Tick tock.  We have 60 days to give input on Secretary Betsy DeVos' desired changes to Title IX .  I cannot stress enough how important it is to put in a comment as DeVos wants to make sweeping changes that would give almost more help to the accused than the victim.  Almost worse, it relieves institutions from responsibilities that they should be accountable for in order to protect students.

From the Seattle Times , a story about how the new 2-year City scholarship program will work.

Update 2: From my letter to the Board and the Superintendent: I'm also wondering about Manuela Slye who is now on two committees -- Equity and Race plus this one AND on the International Schools/Dual Language Immersion Task Force. There is no other Latino/Latina person?  Because it seems unfair that one person is on so many committees (plus it must be a lot of work for her). What's odd is that there are no attached bio info on anyone. To have a committee that will be part of charting the future course for the district and there's no info on them is not right . end of update Update: a link to the presentation and a link to the minutes . end of update The first meeting to catch up on was a Work Session on October 29th which was a presentation by District Management Group (DMG), the consulting firm that will be directing the work for a new strategic plan under Superintendent Juneau.  All the Board members were present except for Director DeWolf and Director Pat...

NPR Student Podcast Challenge

Tuesday, November 327th Work Session on Families, Education, Preschool and Promise levy from 4:30-6:00 pm. Work Session on Secondary Revisioning from 6:00-7:30 pm.  Both at JSCEE. Agenda/presentation .

Interesting idea - asking kids what they do know about a subject (that didn't get asked on the test).

  Life is exhausting sometimes.  And it sometimes feels like more goes wrong than goes right. But yes, when thinking of life in relative terms, most of us have a lot to be grateful for in our lives. One step I've taken is what I call appreciations.  Just let someone know you appreciate them.  I wrote to Jimmy Carter years back to tell him what he meant to me and he sent back my letter saying "thank you" with his signature.