Fill Me In Please!

In looking through the agendas since my appointment I’ve come across a lot of professional development type requests.


I’m ALL FOR professional development. I understand clearly that in order to insure our children are learning current technologies our teachers must keep abreast of these new methods in education.

BUT – what I have NOT seen, nor heard, nor has it been explained – HOW DOES THIS LEARNING GET TURNKEYED TO OUR CHILDREN? At the end of the day... WHAT IS THE VALUE-ADD BENEFIT to our BABIES?

I’d like to start having our professionals provide us either in person or in writing how THEY SPECIFICALLY are going to implement what they learn in this district. I’d like to understand specific benefit, overall implementation strategy and the educational advantages our children will gain.

I’m not willing to pay for one more person to get educated, advance their skill set and then move on (period)!

Other items of interest include:

• A payment of $14K for an ASSESSMENT? WHAT? We don’t have anyone in-house capable of doing a legitimate and thorough assessment? WOW that worries me tremendously.

• Consulting Service for Title I audits, applications, analysis and assessments? WHAT??? I really don’t understand the need for this. We’ve been a Title I school and receiving Title I funds for how many years now? There is not one Title I specialist in our employ that has the capability to do this within the current scope of their job? That’s Scary.

Join me Tuesday and find out what I find out…