I made an entire sped / ell earth science course with co-work and notebook LM for videos. If I can figure out where Code fits into our learning management systems, I’m going to have certain opinions about the future of education strengthen.
From a staff perspective this district just seems more and more chaotic. Most staff dont pay too attention to any of this. But the advantages that existed for working at Acps (stuff you can write on a post it) have disappeared. We may be reaching the saturation point.
Before Pete left numerous Central Office folks went over the APS. That paved the way for the exodus Antipathy was definitely a cause for Pete but folks were jumping ship before MKW. Acps has a hard set up and the one HS model made it even harder. If the pay is the same, why stay.
To be fair, I’ve heard a lot of city council folks say this over the years. I think Canek or John Chapman suggested this a few years ago.
Hutchings was from outside and so was Sherman and they were pretty self-obsessed. My vote would be hire someone boring with experience.
It’s an outdated corporatized model that’s too removed from schools. It’s too big. It’s unnecessary. It comes off as disingenuous often. Most of what you want to see comes from your kids’ teachers or admins in the building. Plenty small districts do without big comms.
Comms was 4.5 people when I started doing social media in 2015
It seems to speed up
It puts the Principal in a terrible position as well. Now more than ever it’s important for the Principal to be seen as a fair arbiter on campus issues. If he’s seen as a mechanism controlled from above, he or she loses legitimacy from staff and students. Maybe this was tenable before but not now.
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I really think we will have to start thinking creatively and reduce the number of teachers we need, pay them more, leverage tech or partnerships or community colleges or whatever. I think HS can be so ridiculous babysitting some of these 17 or 18 year olds. The tech is finally almost there.
Yeah or else you totally blow off your students. Easier at HS level. I know there’s some teachers nationwide who go in, print out some worksheets, and spend the day planning their real estate business. I think Florida depends on this tbh.
the historian in me thinks it’s a lot of broader economic and demographic trends combined w massive cultural shifts more than any one actor being responsible for mismanagement. But that said - we’ve had some mismanagement for sure! The instability is the worst.
Yup. I’m from Delaware Ohio. In the 80s, teacher salaries weren’t great. Still - the larger changes in the economy and inflation + changes in healthcare and housing costs seem almost insurmountable. When people around here struggle to figure out what’s going on w/the schools…
The best move now in teaching is to use it as a base and find a side hustle. But that also attracts the wrong people. Plus I’m all out of side hustles!
I mean, I’m grateful for all the support. But long term it’s a real problem. The people who will start taking jobs for so much lower won’t be the same caliber as we got before. I’m seeing it with teachers I’m working summer school with now.
It’s good for people to see the different salaries. You don’t come off as a jerk at all. It’s hard to live here as salaries become so far apart. All the brouhaha about the budget and salary raises this year for teachers - I spent so much time fighting. Came out to a diff btwn 86k a year and 87.5k.
Which in turns takes pressure off the school system… too much pressure is bad but not enough and it just dominoes into a horrible situation and people jump ship. Terrible cycle for kids and parents and teachers and staff.
Yes agree. I like that
No clue. Kelly Booz knows. For me fewer people is more effective. Like if I wanted to talk about an issue, and maybe push things towards a discussion, it’s a ton of people to get on board. It would be easier to effect change with fewer people. Or at least for discussion.
I wish we had fewer slots. I really think upping the salary and giving an assistant and reducing the number would be good. But I’ve seen arguments for appointing and arguments for why we need 9.
I think they always have a hard time with District C finding enough people. West End. It seems like a ton of work. We were discussing this in the red Facebook group; Sharon said that people told her it was at least ten hours a week, sometimes way more. And the budget thing made it more intense
Way too high IMO. I think Kelly Booz wants to reform it and stagger terms and this seems like good impetus. She also wants assistant which I think is a good idea.
