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ladyrunner
Citizen
Username: Ladyrunner
Post Number: 13
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 1:30 pm: |     |
I'm confused. Is the superintendent still planning to delevel grade 6?
I talked to a teacher today and she is very upset. She feels that the superintendent got teachers to support deleveling by telling them that the content supervisors would be part of ongoing support and professional development. Now the supervisors are cut out of the budget. The high school department heads have never been a part of the discussions or training for differentiated instruction, and they are unfamiliar with middle school curriculum and schedule.
I am very upset by this. These teachers are being hung out to dry. He promised them the support of the supervisors then took all of them away. I am even more upset that the grade 6 teachers have been deceived. He'll probably give them large classes, too.
This is unprofessional and even unethical. If he was going to make this change he never should have pushed deleveling forward or committed supervisor support to the teachers.
Shame on him. |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 481
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 1:37 pm: | |
The plan to delevel was very clearly half baked to begin with. It would not surprise me if H. is using this to
1. ensure keeping the supervisors from being axed using the deleveling as leverage.
2. or/and, when the first few months of deleveling cause chaos in the middle school, blaming it on lack of teacher training etc. instead of admitting that this is still inadequately thought through. |
soresident
Citizen
Username: Soresident
Post Number: 115
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 4:08 pm: | |
The February preliminary budget draft last year proposed that the 4 K-8 curriculum supervisors be eliminated, for a cost savings of $436,000. Not positive, but I think that the math, science and language arts supervisors were ultimately put back into the regular budget, and the position of social studies supervisor was made part of the separate proposal. My recollection is that, forced to make difficult cost cutting choices, there was consensus in the community (argued before the BOE at the final budget meeting) that they felt the supervisors were more dispensable than programs like world language and music, or middle school vice principals. It is thus not suprising to see the supervisors on the block again this year. Since Dr. H's position all along has been that our teachers are receiving continual training to allow them to teach in deleveled classrooms, he will be hard pressed to argue that the lack of these supervisors hurts this program. |
Dad23
Citizen
Username: Dad23
Post Number: 43
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 4:48 pm: | |
The teachers have been getting the "continual training to allow them to teach in deleveled classrooms" from the supervisors. So as usual, he's full of it. He tricked the teachers. No big surprise. It isn't like he has a great history of supporting them.
Maybe bookgal is right. Why would he sabotage his own plan of deleveling? This must be more tricks.
Maybe the 3 assistant superintendents will train the teachers! |
Montagnard
Citizen
Username: Montagnard
Post Number: 399
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 5:06 pm: | |
There are quite a few areas that should be cut before the curriculum supervisors.
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