Sans entourage. Answering some of the same questions that we asked her last week at her State of the District address.
When King 5 reporter Robert Mak asked her if she was willing to fight to bring Teach For America to Seattle, given the hefty opposition from the teachers union, Goodloe-Johnson replied that she was a “little surprised” by the concern. “It’s an innovative idea,” she said. “It’s not an idea to fight about” because TFA candidates will follow the exact same hiring process as any other teacher in the district.
Mak also asked her is she had been “personally disturbed” when the teachers union gave her a no confidence vote. Goodloe-Johnson replied that “there’s been a lot of change happening”—referring to the program cuts, school closures, etc.—”that creates stress, so it plays out in many different ways.” She said that she was engaging teachers in brown bag lunches to listen to their concerns.
My favorite response was this, however. When Mak asked her about her biggest surprise since coming to Seattle, she said: “The lack of systems and innovation in a very innovative city.”
Watch the whole interview here. The supe comes in at 12:44.
oh, sorry.
I thought this was about the pervy TSA body scans and how TSA is hiring child molesters to “watch” images of kids “nude” and pat them down.
School district – you mean they still have funding?
How about a post about Anne-Marie Johnson?
Seattle yet another high density urb that spends maximal monies per pupil ($8000 to $12000) and receives minimal scholastic results compared with suburbs and smaller towns that spend $5000-$6000 and produce scholars.
The “problem” is the high overhead, and factory methods that deliver less for more cost.
Union-busting dirtbag. Remember last year when she sent lay-off letters to teachers in an attempt to circumvent the union contract?
She is like a machine spitting out answers. (She went to a Superintendent Charm Academy so that might explain it.) Boy, I wish she would get offered the job in D.C. and exit stage left.
FYI, she disingenuously left out A LOT on Teach for America including NO public engagement or notification to parents about these 5-weeks of training teachers she wants to bring in. But don’t you know, they’re our “best and brightest” so naturally she wants to put them in our most challenging classrooms, both low-income and special ed. Plus it costs us more to have them here.
Only the district, not individual schools, can hire teachers. Schools can only recommend a hire. How much do you want to bet that the district will ignore those recommendations if candidates are not TFA?
She’s destroyed innovative (and successful) programs in Seattle for the sake of “alignment” and MAP testing.
Her ethics are atrocious. She refused to talk to the union and made it perfectly clear that wants to fire every member (as @4 mentioned above). Yes, that sure does inspire confidence.
The next school board meeting – the one where TFA is going to be discussed – is this Wednesday.
There’s a brand-new teachers contract that includes incentives for good teachers and supports for struggling teachers. Why can’t that be in place and working for a couple of years before she brings in new teachers? Odd.
She wants to have better relations with teachers. And yet her answer to Mak is brown bag lunches. I think the Teach for America thing is her big FU to the teachers for their vote of no confidence.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/op…
Seattle School Board Directors…
Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (New York: Basic Books, 2010) – which I believe SPS parent Chris Stewart gave you all to read last spring – recently addressed a forum in Seattle and commented on the merits of TFA recruits teaching in low performance schools.
Here she is speaking at the REEP, KIPP and TFA Lecture Series at Rice University in Houston, on October 14th 2010.
http://www.vimeo.com/16479134
Please watch (from about 11 minutes in) and consider what she and many others – including peer reviewed studies – have to say and vote “NO” to bringing TFA to Seattle.
Vote NO because:
1: there is no need
2: there is no need and we dont have the money
3: there is no need, we dont have the money and you havent put the contract out to bid
4: there is no need, we dont have the money, you havent put the contract out to bid and you havent asked us what we think
5: there is no need, we dont have the money, you havent put the contract out to bid, you havent asked us what we think and its against the law – WAC 181-79A-231
6: there is no need, we dont have the money, you havent asked us what we think, its against the law and you will face several lawsuits if you go ahead, which you will lose, as happened in California …
Many Seattle parents, teachers and community members – whom you represent – want you to stop this underhanded move to continue on the path to privatisation of public education.
See here for some of their comments:
http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/s…
Vote NO to TFA on Wednesday….
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/op…
Seattle School Board Directors…
Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (New York: Basic Books, 2010) – which I believe SPS parent Chris Stewart gave you all to read last spring – recently addressed a forum in Seattle and commented on the merits of TFA recruits teaching in low performance schools.
Here she is speaking at the REEP, KIPP and TFA Lecture Series at Rice University in Houston, on October 14th 2010.
http://www.vimeo.com/16479134
Please watch (from about 11 minutes in) and consider what she and many others – including peer reviewed studies – have to say and vote “NO” to bringing TFA to Seattle.
Vote NO because:
1: there is no need
2: there is no need and we dont have the money
3: there is no need, we dont have the money and you havent put the contract out to bid
4: there is no need, we dont have the money, you havent put the contract out to bid and you havent asked us what we think
5: there is no need, we dont have the money, you havent put the contract out to bid, you havent asked us what we think and its against the law – WAC 181-79A-231
6: there is no need, we dont have the money, you havent asked us what we think, its against the law and you will face several lawsuits if you go ahead, which you will lose, as happened in California …
Many Seattle parents, teachers and community members – whom you represent – want you to stop this underhanded move to continue on the path to privatisation of public education.
See here for some of their comments:
http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/s…
Vote NO to TFA on Wednesday….
So the Superintendent failed to address the fact that she has produced little if any improvement. Has she failed to notice that?