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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Enough is enough .... By Todd Gazda, Superintendent, Ludlow Public Schools

"It is time for educators to push back against the standardized, centralized, top-down mandate driven school reform environment. I agree with the need for standards, but those standards need to be broadly written. Local communities, school boards, administrators and teachers should then be afforded the flexibility to demonstrate how they have worked to creatively to implement local initiatives in order to meet those broadly construed standards. The problem is that it is difficult to boil down creativity to a data point and that makes bureaucrats uncomfortable to say the least. " - Todd Gazda, Superintendent, Ludlow Public Schools

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I wish that I lived close enough to Ludlow because Dr. Gazda gets it and he is the type of educator I want to work for.; 23 March, 2014
Anonymous said...: “When I teach science, I cruise. I always get through all of the curriculum by the end of the school year.” But at what cost? When the pace is accelerated so that students are taught the declarative knowledge that is commonly required for success on state tests, they miss out on opportunities to probe deeply into concepts and explore higher-order thinking. This is especially unfortunate for English learners who need opportunities to use the new language and concepts in a variety of ways over time.; 23 March, 2014