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Pia's unrealistic goals will lead to failure and Mitchell will be in for a shock when he realizes he's hired a dud. I smell another buyout coming and I'm not referring to carrrrrigo.
Our reality, and its negative impact on the future of our student’s education, has been clear to those of us that have taught in New Bedford, for quite a few years. However, this seems to have escaped the people who dictate to us, how to increase the “measure” of our success. These people have been a fleeting group who seem to have all the answers. We are the consistent resource available to this city and the students we serve each and every year of our careers. Yet, we have been viewed as “negative”, when we have pleaded to be heard. The reality is, we knew "Where are you headed?”, and we are there now! We have known how to change a system, others have designed for failure. They would and still will not listen. The policies on education, which have increased our work load with ineffective paper trails and the micromanagement of our classrooms, are preventative at best. Stop crippling us with paperwork that documents and prevents our every effort to teach! Treat us with respect. We know how to teach our children to be successful, on more than just a standardized test. Our goal is to teach our children to be successful in life! Support our efforts, with meaningful training. Encourage our professional growth, with realistic goals. Put our greatest resources at the foundational level. Give us a developmentally appropriate curriculum, the ability to use it effectively, and the resources do it with. Allow us to spend our time focusing on the things that matter most. Let us do what we do best and support our efforts in meaningful ways that will allow us to meet our districts goals. Trust and respect the professionals that we are! You will not find a harder working, more knowledgeable group of professional educators anywhere, than in New Bedford. Most of us have lived in this city all of our lives. We have been educated here, and raised our families here. Our belief in our students and the future of our city has been a part of who we are for all of our lives. NO ONE is more invested than us. Please allow us as educators to give our children the foundational tools for success, that we know how to. Then and only then will we succeed. The answer to our success is really elementary! “Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that is measured matters.”~Elliot Eisner
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This is the AIP plan that will serve as a model for other districts? I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Pia's unrealistic goals will lead to failure and Mitchell will be in for a shock when he realizes he's hired a dud. I smell another buyout coming and I'm not referring to carrrrrigo.
Our reality, and its negative impact on the future of our student’s education, has been clear to those of us that have taught in New Bedford, for quite a few years. However, this seems to have escaped the people who dictate to us, how to increase the “measure” of our success. These people have been a fleeting group who seem to have all the answers. We are the consistent resource available to this city and the students we serve each and every year of our careers. Yet, we have been viewed as “negative”, when we have pleaded to be heard. The reality is, we knew "Where are you headed?”, and we are there now! We have known how to change a system, others have designed for failure. They would and still will not listen.
The policies on education, which have increased our work load with ineffective paper trails and the micromanagement of our classrooms, are preventative at best. Stop crippling us with paperwork that documents and prevents our every effort to teach! Treat us with respect. We know how to teach our children to be successful, on more than just a standardized test. Our goal is to teach our children to be successful in life! Support our efforts, with meaningful training. Encourage our professional growth, with realistic goals. Put our greatest resources at the foundational level. Give us a developmentally appropriate curriculum, the ability to use it effectively, and the resources do it with. Allow us to spend our time focusing on the things that matter most. Let us do what we do best and support our efforts in meaningful ways that will allow us to meet our districts goals. Trust and respect the professionals that we are!
You will not find a harder working, more knowledgeable group of professional educators anywhere, than in New Bedford. Most of us have lived in this city all of our lives. We have been educated here, and raised our families here. Our belief in our students and the future of our city has been a part of who we are for all of our lives. NO ONE is more invested than us. Please allow us as educators to give our children the foundational tools for success, that we know how to. Then and only then will we succeed. The answer to our success is really elementary!
“Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that is measured matters.”~Elliot Eisner
Run us all over to the Race to the Top! Accelerate! Who cares who gets left behind, right?
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