Recently, I wrote a post regarding some ideas that I did not believe that would transform school culture. Although most agreed on two of the ideas that I shared, there was a large contingent of ed...
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A simple illustration shows that the manner in which we usually measure school growth doesn't really measure growth at all.
Mary Perfitt-Nelson's insight:
"There’s something to be said for measuring performance over time and incentivizing improvement using available data, and changes in cross-sectional rates/scores are, for the moment, all that is available in many places (though that is changing). Nevertheless, we should always bear in mind that these changes are not “growth” or “gains,” and they often cannot identify the schools generating the most significant progress among their students (or lack thereof)" Delete the scoop?
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It's important to know who you have. Connecting with kids, knowing their culture, creating relationships..........all lead to great things. It isn't WHO we are, but instead HOW we are. Engaging lesson design is part, but not all, of the equation. We need to rethink how we meld relationships with engaging curriculum.