Don't believe for a minute if anyone tells you Central Office staff are being let go. A lot of them are retiring and being categorized as layoffs. This is so typical.
Me be fired, they don't renew my contact, I called the union, but they lyied and say that I be a member. I write a check become union member, but no! The GOP sayed that union forced member, that be true, they wont heled me. I benn teaching english for eight months? The studentes liked me, we watched so gooded movies for visual learned student.
I don't know about central office administrators, but school administrators are being cut. I feel bad for new teachers, but we are all feeling crunch. Budget cuts are budgets cuts. Everyone needs to quit whining. The kids are the real victims here.
http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/aroundtown/article_14aff078-5c71-11e0-8083-001cc4c002e0.html Didn't succeed in his run for school board so now he has a "Gene job."
"Don't we HAVE to represent all educators, regardless of their membership status?" No. The IEA does not represent all educators regardless of their membership status. The IEA, ISTA, and NEA, however, will consistently and diligently defend the master agreement (contract) for ALL bargaining unit members (mainly teachers, counselors, etc.) with complete disregard for membership status.
I am an AR and several times when a whiny nonmember comes to me to obtain Association help with a problem, I tell them to hire a lawyer. Most of those people usually declined to join because "I am a good teacher, I dont't representation." or "I can't afford it." Let them pay a lawyer several thousand dollars to a lawyer from the money they saved by not being a member of their professional association.
I carry a personal umbrella policy through Farmers which provides liability protection. It also provides half a million bucks which can be used to pay legal expenses I may incur as an educator. This policy costs about $250 per year.
Oh, yeah, I'm also an IEA member. Paying for both helps me sleep for about $3 per day.
What will the union do for rif'ed teachers? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Been there done that and everytime I send an email locally or to the state I get the "we can't do anything" bullcrap--blame the govenor attitude.
He endorsed/elected Bennett, a superintendent from a large failing district.
He endorsed/elected republicans in our house/senate who were avowed union-busters.
He admonished the Democrats who attempted to reject this broad sword of "educational reform"
He worked closely with Jeb Bush to emulate Florida's educational model which posts each school's letter grade on signage.
He is "running" for president, so is trolling for national recognition as a education reformer.
He endorses a business model for schools, which should produce "widgets" instead of literate, capable young adults.
He supports Michelle Rhee, whose tenure as District of Columbia Superintendent is currently under scrutiny for test score improvement based on a plethora of erasures.
He has placed a target on IPS for the new evaluation process, theoretically to show that we need to be dismantled, run by the state, or recreated as charters.
Mitch Daniels sounds like the culprit to me.....along with Bennett who is just a Daniels puppet. Bennett could not even get his own district to succeed so he suddenly is in charge of the entire state. Eugene White and his incompentence has given much ammunition to the cause along with his head bobbing, puppet school board.
You are missing my point. I totally agree that it starts with Mitch and Tony.
I also feel the union is hiding behind it also. When I watched (in our district) rif'ed teachers not get called back and new teachers hired over them and we were told that the union couldn't do anything it just turned my stomach. These teachers have spent years paying union dues and when they needed the union they backed out. The union should have stepped in when they did call back some of the rif's as full time subs without benefits!!!!!!!!!! These are tough times and the union is simply not protecting teachers and it is only going to get worse. The union leaders are going to lose teachers and eventually their union jobs if they don't step up to the plate and do their jobs. I'm sure Mitch and Tony are laughing daily and don't mind a bit taking the hits and finger pointing.
As far as Bennett goes it was sickening that he was even voted in. We can only hope that the state gets the nerve to make sure that these two are voted out the next election, but sadly many voters not involved with education will go and vote for them again
For those of you who are against school choice and also against elected officials making education policy, exactly how is the public supposed to control, change, and regulate, public education?
I'm sorry. I thought LOL was pretty standard Internet communication. But I'm always open to learning new things. How do older people communicate amusement on Internet forums? Or how can someone under 50 communicate amusement in a way that is not offensive to older people? Would it have somehow made a difference if I had typed. "I'm amused at the above question and have no argument. So taxpayers..." If it wouldn't have made a difference, then perhaps you would care to argue with the point of the post rather than the informal style in which it was communicated.
To: "The IEA does not represent all educators regardless of their membership status. The IEA, ISTA, and NEA, however, will consistently and diligently defend the master agreement (contract) for ALL bargaining unit members (mainly teachers, counselors, etc.) with complete disregard for membership status."
Bravo! Way to shut up freeloaders! And I love the comment from the teacher who carries additional insurance and still supports the association. Good for you!
"The IEA, ISTA, and NEA, however, will consistently and diligently defend the master agreement (contract) for ALL bargaining unit members (mainly teachers, counselors, etc.) with complete disregard for membership status."
Sadly, the freeloaders have weakened all of Indiana educational associations' "master agreements" to negotiate and protect ONLY our salary and insurance. There will no longer be "language" for situations such as working hours, class sizes, or due process. The right to file grievances will be fondly remembered as a blast from the past, and if your administrator wants you gone without question, one simple conference will remove you from your classroom. Want to fight it? Be sure you have lots of evidence in your favor, and plenty of money, since, if your appeal is unsuccessful, you'll pay all incurred expenses, both yours and your opponents'.
Please, please be sure to read the proposed bills in committee right now. One might feel that someone else will look out for his or her best interest, but that is no longer guaranteed.
Let's sell advertising on the sides of our schoolbuses like Orlando! I can see Prozac, Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan & Diet Coke, Advil, Nyquil, and Budweiser.
"Provides that if a complaint that is filed alleging an unfair practice is found to be frivolous, the complaining party is liable for costs and attorney's fees."
I spent the morning reading state papers around the state and the stories in the big cities-da region, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, Indy are the same. Struggling inner city schools that are being threatened by the state take over. MHO--the state has no desire to truly take over these schools as they have no answers. If they did they would certainly have shared them by now. Some of the schools are complaining that the new teachers are lost on student discipline and class control. The state is hoping that schools will disburse and go to charters and privates so that they won't have to take schools over and fail. But then again the word "fail" is a false label when charters don't have to adhere the same rules
I see many of the new teachers being very well prepared in the subject area that they teach but woefully lacking in classroom management and understanding the boundaries of their teaching lives and their personal lives. Before we start getting posts about a new teacher in your building who is doing well, please read and note that I said many. Yes, there are also many new teachers who do those things well also.
I still disagree. If I had to generalize, I'd say the newer teachers were better than the older ones. Some try to hard to be friends, but many are better able to engage students because they "get" this generation more than some of the older teachers I'm in the middle, neither old nor new, but I often find myself learning as much from the youngest teachers as i do from the veterans.
I wasn't clear. I didn't mean newer teachers were better teachers. I meant (as a generalization) they were better at classroom management, engagement, etc.
The biggest problem I've seen in the younger educators is their desire to be BFF to all their students. Many use technology with no thought as to future ramifications. One posted comment or photograph taken out of context can haunt even the best and brightest.
I agree that establishing boundaries is probably the biggest problem with very new teachers. But I think in the long run, it's still not as detrimental as the biggest problem with veteran teachers (which tends to be burnout, generation gap, and even racism).
What does it take for an IPS principal to be fired? Dr. WHite has no credibility with me at all. For a drunk principal to be in front of parents, alumni and students is atrocious and for him to have done nothing--he is useless! I don't think the parents of students in Washington, Pike, Wayne, Warren or any other township would have stood for this. And people wonder why we are thought to be low-class? A fish rots from the head down.
I've known racists of all races but 100% of the adult racism against children I've ever seen has been white people against non-white children. In IPS, that's usually black and Latino students. Out west, it was Native Americans and Latino.
If it had of been a teacher, just the rumor would have been enough to get the teacher fired! There is a teacher in our building right now who has not been seen in three weeks over rumor of his associations with addicts!
Even the worst principal/administrator will never be fired, they just become a "weed checker" for IPS at their huge salary. Then IPS will RIF five teachers to make sure that principal is paid on time, I just wish the DOE will sudit IPS.
Would a diploma from IWU qualify one to be a weed checker? If so, would that be a two- or four-year program? Or would I need to log on to U of Phoenix?
IWU takes one weekend per month for one week and don't stress out, as you will always get an "A" in the course. If C. Shipp could pass the requirements, well anyone will get the license. C. Shipp was on limited license for eight years as she couldn't pass the Praxis Exam? Check her record with the DOE, and she is leadership material? Only in IPS and who wanted Dr. Greenwood, has any of the other townships tried to steal her away from IPS. Only in IPS could we function with clowns running the Education Center.
I may be old fashioned but I think being Facebook friens with your students or discussing your dating and drinking life with your students is inappropriate. If this is what it means to engage your students then it is out of bounds. I see lots of this.
I was at the Ed Center last Thursday. Jane Kendrick was leaving the garage driving a green Honda Civic. She looked like a pig shoved into a green pea. Where does Dr. White find these people?
Here's the link to the above article regarding IPS purchasing real estate property to expand Shortridge Magnet School's campus. This is one of those expensive items that the School Board passed without our knowledge!
I was at the Ed Center last Thursday. Jane Kendrick was leaving the garage driving a green Honda Civic. She looked like a pig shoved into a green pea. Where does Dr. White find these people?
Who cares what she looks like, I bet she pays for this car...I'd rather see her in a civic than in an expensive tax payer subsidized vehicle.
I think we need to change Dr. White's subsidy... wouldn't he do well in a Smart Car, the savings in car and fuel cost would pay a teachers salary..and they are very safe.
Uh-oh A loss of students that's driving plans to lay off 271 teachers in Indianapolis Public Schools could have deeper repercussions if it continues, officials there say.
And they fear a clutch of education reform bills now in the legislature could accelerate that decline and lead to more cutbacks, which "always (affect) people and programs," said IPS spokeswoman Kim Hooper.
The names of affected educators won't become public until this week, Hooper said. Nor will breakdowns by grade or school, or the amount of savings expected. Teachers contacted referred questions to IPS' media relations office.
I looked and laughed, nobody in IPS knows what they are doing, they want a kindergarten teacher who knows Response to INSTRUCTION, and goes on to describe a teacher who has experience in RESPONSE to INTERVENTION. Since they don't even know what the program is called what is the chance they will know how to implement the program?
Have you guys received many new students right before ISTEP? I can't believe how many kindergarten kids we are getting. The parent brings the kid in, even though they haven't been in kindergarten ANYWHERE all year. They expect the school to send them on to 1st grade even though they don't know the basic stuff. Pretty savvy. With kindergarten NOT mandatory in this hillbilly state, like it is everywhere else, it only makes education worse. You won't see THIS trick exploited by any "Ed-u-ma-cation" reform from our lobbyists/policymakers will we?
Uh, you're the one who doesn't know what's going on. Indiana has been calling RTI "Response to Instruction" for quite some time now. http://www.doe.in.gov/rti/
Oh this is hysterical, A quick web search shows that the IDOE cribbed the program and information from national Response to Intervention documents, retitled it "Response to Instruction" and acted like they came up with the idea.
Much like they did with the "new" teach evaluation document. Look at Michelle Rhee's Impact program, and what they call their TLF (Teaching and Learning Framework) and then take a look at the new teacher evaluation document...only one problem, IDOE cribbed the old version, not the newer version.
Saw this in the USA today paper this morning. Does this mean there will be MORE lay offs? INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's largest school district is preparing to lay off more teachers. The Indianapolis Public Schools said Wednesday it will cut 357 teaching jobs to fill a nearly $21 million budget hole due to cuts in state funding. Sixty-five cuts will be retirements or resignations. IPS previously had announced it would cut 271 teachers among more than 300 layoffs.
IPS Superintendent Eugene White tells WTHR-TV the district also will scale back its budget for materials and school activities to try to avoid cuts to academic programs as much as possible.
White says the cuts won't have a significant effect on the pupil-to-teacher ratios
Does anyone need packing boxes? I have plenty, since we have to move, too. Craigslist also regularly features boxes in the free section.
ReplyDeleteI hope most of the boxes are to be delivered to the top floor.
Me be fired, they don't renew my contact, I called the union, but they lyied and say that I be a member. I write a check become union member, but no!
ReplyDeleteThe GOP sayed that union forced member, that be true, they wont heled me. I benn teaching english for eight months? The studentes liked me, we watched so gooded movies for visual learned student.
You be fired cuz you need to bee fired.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about central office administrators, but school administrators are being cut. I feel bad for new teachers, but we are all feeling crunch. Budget cuts are budgets cuts. Everyone needs to quit whining. The kids are the real victims here.
ReplyDeleteI hope you were joking when you said you want the union to represent you when you are NOT a member.
ReplyDeleteDon't we HAVE to represent all educators, regardless of their membership status?
ReplyDeleteEven idiots, goobers, knuckleheads, ingrates, whiners, cheapskates, backstabbers, infidels, and morons?
http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/aroundtown/article_14aff078-5c71-11e0-8083-001cc4c002e0.html
ReplyDeleteDidn't succeed in his run for school board so now he has a "Gene job."
It was posted on April 1st. Are you sure it wasn't an April Fool's joke? *note joke/sarcasm*
ReplyDeletehttp://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/news/print_highlights/article_093c357e-6132-11e0-8761-001cc4c03286.html
ReplyDelete"Don't we HAVE to represent all educators, regardless of their membership status?"
ReplyDeleteNo. The IEA does not represent all educators regardless of their membership status. The IEA, ISTA, and NEA, however, will consistently and diligently defend the master agreement (contract) for ALL bargaining unit members (mainly teachers, counselors, etc.) with complete disregard for membership status.
Too complicated? E-mail your AR.
I am an AR and several times when a whiny nonmember comes to me to obtain Association help with a problem, I tell them to hire a lawyer. Most of those people usually declined to join because "I am a good teacher, I dont't representation." or "I can't afford it." Let them pay a lawyer several thousand dollars to a lawyer from the money they saved by not being a member of their professional association.
ReplyDeleteI carry a personal umbrella policy through Farmers which provides liability protection. It also provides half a million bucks which can be used to pay legal expenses I may incur as an educator. This policy costs about $250 per year.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, I'm also an IEA member. Paying for both helps me sleep for about $3 per day.
What will the union do for rif'ed teachers?
ReplyDeleteNothing, absolutely nothing. Been there done that and everytime I send an email locally or to the state I get the "we can't do anything" bullcrap--blame the govenor attitude.
"-blame the govenor attitude."
ReplyDeleteExactly why should we "blame the governor"?
Let's see:
He endorsed/elected Bennett, a superintendent from a large failing district.
He endorsed/elected republicans in our house/senate who were avowed union-busters.
He admonished the Democrats who attempted to reject this broad sword of "educational reform"
He worked closely with Jeb Bush to emulate Florida's educational model which posts each school's letter grade on signage.
He is "running" for president, so is trolling for national recognition as a education reformer.
He endorses a business model for schools, which should produce "widgets" instead of literate, capable young adults.
He supports Michelle Rhee, whose tenure as District of Columbia Superintendent is currently under scrutiny for test score improvement based on a plethora of erasures.
He has placed a target on IPS for the new evaluation process, theoretically to show that we need to be dismantled, run by the state, or recreated as charters.
Who else should shoulder the blame?
Mitch Daniels sounds like the culprit to me.....along with Bennett who is just a Daniels puppet. Bennett could not even get his own district to succeed so he suddenly is in charge of the entire state. Eugene White and his incompentence has given much ammunition to the cause along with his head bobbing, puppet school board.
ReplyDeleteYou are missing my point. I totally agree that it starts with Mitch and Tony.
ReplyDeleteI also feel the union is hiding behind it also.
When I watched (in our district) rif'ed teachers not get called back and new teachers hired over them and we were told that the union couldn't do anything it just turned my stomach.
These teachers have spent years paying union dues and when they needed the union they backed out.
The union should have stepped in when they did call back some of the rif's as full time subs without benefits!!!!!!!!!!
These are tough times and the union is simply not protecting teachers and it is only going to get worse. The union leaders are going to lose teachers and eventually their union jobs if they don't step up to the plate and do their jobs.
I'm sure Mitch and Tony are laughing daily and don't mind a bit taking the hits and finger pointing.
As far as Bennett goes it was sickening that he was even voted in. We can only hope that the state gets the nerve to make sure that these two are voted out the next election, but sadly many voters not involved with education will go and vote for them again
For those of you who are against school choice and also against elected officials making education policy, exactly how is the public supposed to control, change, and regulate, public education?
ReplyDeleteLOL! No doubt! So taxpayers and students should have no representation, but teachers representation is fine. How convenient.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. I thought LOL-ing was for children. But considering the comments following the LOL's they probably are children.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry. I thought LOL was pretty standard Internet communication. But I'm always open to learning new things. How do older people communicate amusement on Internet forums? Or how can someone under 50 communicate amusement in a way that is not offensive to older people? Would it have somehow made a difference if I had typed. "I'm amused at the above question and have no argument. So taxpayers..." If it wouldn't have made a difference, then perhaps you would care to argue with the point of the post rather than the informal style in which it was communicated.
ReplyDeleteAt least you spelled it right. :-)
ReplyDeleteI would retire, I have five more years as I started teaching late in life. IPS could give me a package next year and the door wouldn't close on me.
ReplyDeleteWhat school adminstrators are being fired? Please tell!
ReplyDelete"So taxpayers and students should have no representation"
ReplyDeleteIncorrect. Current legislation permits overhaul of a failing school's personnel should 51% of the parents ORGANIZE and demand change.
Gee, that sounds like a united movement...kinda like a union!
To: "The IEA does not represent all educators regardless of their membership status. The IEA, ISTA, and NEA, however, will consistently and diligently defend the master agreement (contract) for ALL bargaining unit members (mainly teachers, counselors, etc.) with complete disregard for membership status."
ReplyDeleteBravo! Way to shut up freeloaders! And I love the comment from the teacher who carries additional insurance and still supports the association. Good for you!
"The IEA, ISTA, and NEA, however, will consistently and diligently defend the master agreement (contract) for ALL bargaining unit members (mainly teachers, counselors, etc.) with complete disregard for membership status."
ReplyDeleteSadly, the freeloaders have weakened all of Indiana educational associations' "master agreements" to negotiate and protect ONLY our salary and insurance. There will no longer be "language" for situations such as working hours, class sizes, or due process. The right to file grievances will be fondly remembered as a blast from the past, and if your administrator wants you gone without question, one simple conference will remove you from your classroom. Want to fight it? Be sure you have lots of evidence in your favor, and plenty of money, since, if your appeal is unsuccessful, you'll pay all incurred expenses, both yours and your opponents'.
Please, please be sure to read the proposed bills in committee right now. One might feel that someone else will look out for his or her best interest, but that is no longer guaranteed.
Let's sell advertising on the sides of our schoolbuses like Orlando! I can see Prozac, Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan & Diet Coke, Advil, Nyquil, and Budweiser.
ReplyDelete"Provides that if a complaint that is filed alleging an unfair practice is found to be frivolous, the complaining party is liable for costs and attorney's fees."
ReplyDeletehttp://in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN1337.1.html
OMG, WTF is happening to education? LOL
ReplyDeletehttp://www.good.is/post/people-are-awesome-fifth-grader-donates-300-life-savings-to-stop-teacher-layoffs/
ReplyDeleteI spent the morning reading state papers around the state and the stories in the big cities-da region, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, Indy are the same. Struggling inner city schools that are being threatened by the state take over.
ReplyDeleteMHO--the state has no desire to truly take over these schools as they have no answers. If they did they would certainly have shared them by now. Some of the schools are complaining that the new teachers are lost on student discipline and class control.
The state is hoping that schools will disburse and go to charters and privates so that they won't have to take schools over and fail. But then again the word "fail" is a false label when charters don't have to adhere the same rules
I see many of the new teachers being very well prepared in the subject area that they teach but woefully lacking in classroom management and understanding the boundaries of their teaching lives and their personal lives. Before we start getting posts about a new teacher in your building who is doing well, please read and note that I said many. Yes, there are also many new teachers who do those things well also.
ReplyDeleteI still disagree. If I had to generalize, I'd say the newer teachers were better than the older ones. Some try to hard to be friends, but many are better able to engage students because they "get" this generation more than some of the older teachers I'm in the middle, neither old nor new, but I often find myself learning as much from the youngest teachers as i do from the veterans.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't clear. I didn't mean newer teachers were better teachers. I meant (as a generalization) they were better at classroom management, engagement, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest problem I've seen in the younger educators is their desire to be BFF to all their students. Many use technology with no thought as to future ramifications. One posted comment or photograph taken out of context can haunt even the best and brightest.
ReplyDeleteI agree that establishing boundaries is probably the biggest problem with very new teachers. But I think in the long run, it's still not as detrimental as the biggest problem with veteran teachers (which tends to be burnout, generation gap, and even racism).
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed to see the word "racism" in this blog. Which race is being targeted?
ReplyDeleteWhat does it take for an IPS principal to be fired? Dr. WHite has no credibility with me at all. For a drunk principal to be in front of parents, alumni and students is atrocious and for him to have done nothing--he is useless! I don't think the parents of students in Washington, Pike, Wayne, Warren or any other township would have stood for this. And people wonder why we are thought to be low-class? A fish rots from the head down.
ReplyDeleteI've known racists of all races but 100% of the adult racism against children I've ever seen has been white people against non-white children. In IPS, that's usually black and Latino students. Out west, it was Native Americans and Latino.
ReplyDeleteWhat does it take for a principal to be fired...
ReplyDeleteIf it had of been a teacher, just the rumor would have been enough to get the teacher fired! There is a teacher in our building right now who has not been seen in three weeks over rumor of his associations with addicts!
Even the worst principal/administrator will never be fired, they just become a "weed checker" for IPS at their huge salary. Then IPS will RIF five teachers to make sure that principal is paid on time, I just wish the DOE will sudit IPS.
ReplyDeleteWould a diploma from IWU qualify one to be a weed checker? If so, would that be a two- or four-year program? Or would I need to log on to U of Phoenix?
ReplyDeleteIWU takes one weekend per month for one week and don't stress out, as you will always get an "A" in the course. If C. Shipp could pass the requirements, well anyone will get the license. C. Shipp was on limited license for eight years as she couldn't pass the Praxis Exam? Check her record with the DOE, and she is leadership material? Only in IPS and who wanted Dr. Greenwood, has any of the other townships tried to steal her away from IPS. Only in IPS could we function with clowns running the Education Center.
ReplyDeleteClowns? I thought there were only dancing lemons in that there puzzle palace!!
ReplyDeleteI may be old fashioned but I think being Facebook friens with your students or discussing your dating and drinking life with your students is inappropriate. If this is what it means to engage your students then it is out of bounds. I see lots of this.
ReplyDeleteI was at the Ed Center last Thursday. Jane Kendrick was leaving the garage driving a green Honda Civic. She looked like a pig shoved into a green pea. Where does Dr. White find these people?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/news/print_highlights/article_093c357e-6132-11e0-8761-001cc4c03286.html
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Here's the link to the above article regarding IPS purchasing real estate property to expand Shortridge Magnet School's campus. This is one of those expensive items that the School Board passed without our knowledge!
I was at the Ed Center last Thursday. Jane Kendrick was leaving the garage driving a green Honda Civic. She looked like a pig shoved into a green pea. Where does Dr. White find these people?
ReplyDeleteWho cares what she looks like, I bet she pays for this car...I'd rather see her in a civic than in an expensive tax payer subsidized vehicle.
I think we need to change Dr. White's subsidy... wouldn't he do well in a Smart Car, the savings in car and fuel cost would pay a teachers salary..and they are very safe.
Uh-oh
ReplyDeleteA loss of students that's driving plans to lay off 271 teachers in Indianapolis Public Schools could have deeper repercussions if it continues, officials there say.
And they fear a clutch of education reform bills now in the legislature could accelerate that decline and lead to more cutbacks, which "always (affect) people and programs," said IPS spokeswoman Kim Hooper.
The names of affected educators won't become public until this week, Hooper said. Nor will breakdowns by grade or school, or the amount of savings expected. Teachers contacted referred questions to IPS' media relations office.
The layoffs aren't as bad as they say. After all, IPS has 14 or so open teaching positions listed on their website!
ReplyDeletehttps://employment.ips.k12.in.us/ips_online_application/%28i0wdv5jldxgarr55x3imieiy%29/default.aspx
I looked and laughed, nobody in IPS knows what they are doing, they want a kindergarten teacher who knows Response to INSTRUCTION, and goes on to describe a teacher who has experience in RESPONSE to INTERVENTION. Since they don't even know what the program is called what is the chance they will know how to implement the program?
ReplyDeleteHave you guys received many new students right before ISTEP? I can't believe how many kindergarten kids we are getting. The parent brings the kid in, even though they haven't been in kindergarten ANYWHERE all year. They expect the school to send them on to 1st grade even though they don't know the basic stuff. Pretty savvy. With kindergarten NOT mandatory in this hillbilly state, like it is everywhere else, it only makes education worse. You won't see THIS trick exploited by any "Ed-u-ma-cation" reform from our lobbyists/policymakers will we?
ReplyDeleteUh, you're the one who doesn't know what's going on. Indiana has been calling RTI "Response to Instruction" for quite some time now. http://www.doe.in.gov/rti/
ReplyDeleteSo it is the whole state...what a shame.
ReplyDeleteGo to ASCD or any other major educational site and see what comes up if you enter Response to Instruction...nothing.
Oh this is hysterical, A quick web search shows that the IDOE cribbed the program and information from national Response to Intervention documents, retitled it "Response to Instruction" and acted like they came up with the idea.
ReplyDeleteMuch like they did with the "new" teach evaluation document. Look at Michelle Rhee's Impact program, and what they call their TLF (Teaching and Learning Framework) and then take a look at the new teacher evaluation document...only one problem, IDOE cribbed the old version, not the newer version.
Saw this in the USA today paper this morning. Does this mean there will be MORE lay offs?
ReplyDeleteINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's largest school district is preparing to lay off more teachers.
The Indianapolis Public Schools said Wednesday it will cut 357 teaching jobs to fill a nearly $21 million budget hole due to cuts in state funding. Sixty-five cuts will be retirements or resignations. IPS previously had announced it would cut 271 teachers among more than 300 layoffs.
IPS Superintendent Eugene White tells WTHR-TV the district also will scale back its budget for materials and school activities to try to avoid cuts to academic programs as much as possible.
White says the cuts won't have a significant effect on the pupil-to-teacher ratios