The state mandate is 90 minutes of ELA and there is no mandate for math.
Thoughts? Concerns? Pulling your hair outs?
Chris Guerrieri's Education Matters
The state mandate is 90 minutes of ELA and there is no mandate for math.
Thoughts? Concerns? Pulling your hair outs?
It says one day a week that kids will get media, hey that sounds great to me, a weekly visit to the library, a media specialist doing a read aloud or putting on some other program. GREAT!
Um except a reader pointed out to me, that their school only has media every other week.
Another pointed out that in the bigger elementary schools there are more classes than could be seen in a week unless they doubled up classes .
So I wondered what happened when their was no media specialist available and was told schools are supposed to come up with a plan.
Why am I skeptical that this is working well for anybody?
But you know what I could be wrong and if I am please let me know.
Finally I would like to say, the way the district has treated its media specialists since Vitti arrived has been criminal. Librarians are some of the last people that should go in a district that has a reading problem. I wonder why they weren’t financed by the QEA or why instead of dropping our budget 40 million dollars nobody said, hmm you know what, lets get some librarians in there.
Our “planning” is from 7:50-8:25.
That is with parents dropping in, kids needing to get on i-Ready, trying to retrieve laptops off the computer cart, etc.
We only get 2-3 resources a week (45 minutes) and one of those is taken up with common planning because we can’t do it before 8:25 when our actual planning period is.
In a big school where dismissal starts at 2:40, you really only have a little over 6 hours of instructional time not counting lunch.
By the way, how can a school with a media specialist every other week have 60 minutes of “media” time? My class’s first trip to the media center isn’t until the third week in September.
That’s a great question-Chris
It looks like Bryan Campbell took a page out of the Gary Chartrand candidate playbook and sent a dastardly and misleading mailer about his candidate Carol Studdard who has successfully served the people of Clay County for nearly 24 years.
Do you know who is a member of the AFL-CIO and Labor Unions? Most teachers, firemen and police officers, that’s who. Your neighbors, the middle class family that has left Duval for Clay county. The people you barbecue with, go to church with and see at Publix.
As for special interests, does he mean all the charter school money that has filled Van Zant’s coffers? They in education are the ultimate special interest and they aren’t giving money to Carol Suddard.
Then he mentions raises, Tallahassee, dominated by republican politicians for over 20 years decides how school board members are paid and I don’t believe that the school board could give themselves raises even if they wanted to.
As for a million dollars in salary and benefits, for nearly 24 years of able and successful service is a bargain. We should be thanking her for her selfless service instead of allowing this man to ridicule her.
I also get their is a sentiment to throw long serving politicians out but why would anybody in Clay County even consider replacing her? Until Van Zant, partly because of her leadership, Clay county was considered one of the best school districts in the state, and the fact that she has stayed only on the school board speaks volumes to her commitment to Clay County’s children.
Finally the line about a DROP payment is just a straight up lie, she hasn’t received one cent from it, though after 24 years of service I don’t know why anyone would begrudge her from doing so when she eventually does.
Clay county shouldn’t the leaders of your schools be chosen based on their ideas, not their callous ability to smear their opponents and mislead the electorate? This is obviously a lesson that Bryan Campbell didn’t learn.
Look at the schedule that the superintendent has put out.
Sixty minutes of planning time, I mean except on common planing days, and I get it elementary schools are more and more being divided up into subject areas, especially in the higher grades but come on.
Throw in dealing with parents and behaviors and a mountain of mostly superfluous paper work my question is when do they have time to do anything and I can’t help but think if they were given more resources of which time to plan would be a big one, then we as a school system would be better off.
So elementary school teachers, hats off to you, I don’t know how the “beep” you do it.
From Actionnewsjax.com
It’s so telling about his character that his first instinct was to lie. It is either just what he does or he is a four year old trapped in a man sized body, after hearing his comments about the election I suspect it is the latter.