Saturday, September 26, 2009

Trust

On another post, Mark Rauterkus wrote:

"What areas within PPS are sources for great trust for you?"

6 comments:

Mark Rauterkus said...

Since I suggested the drill / activity, I'll play along:

I trust that the PPS Gifted Center is going to offer a day per week of great enrichment and challenges to those in grades 8 and lower who gain access there.

Furthermore, I trust that the gifted center day is so unlike the others that it holds students and families within the city that might otherwise depart.

Mark Rauterkus said...

I trust that foreign language instruction at grade K is valuable to the developing minds.

I trust that kids can quickly advance far beyond what the adults in their households can when it comes to continued exposure in the school day to foreign language.

Anonymous said...

I trust because I have seen that there are teachers who will continue to do an excellent job day in and day out as the trends and experiments swirl around them.

Anonymous said...

I trust that the new intervention time for literacy will do some good...maybe...possibly...

Questioner said...

What is the "intervention time"?

Anonymous said...

It is something being done at schools (8th and below maybe?) to improve literacy beyond what is done in a communications or language arts class or reading class. There was a presentation last year to the Ed Committee and I heard it is in action at schools this year. About 30 minutes is dedicated to the program daily. Some kids like it. Some kids are put out that they have less time to move on to the next class because time between periods was cut. I think a minute was shaved from here and there until the 30 minute mark was met. Or near 30. This apparently might involve all staff from a building.