On another post Anonymous wrote:
"new topic please:
another report
http://triblive.com/news/education/6141654-74/teachers-district-report#axzz32SdWFoIU
So
hiring from the top 10% is WRONG?? And by having an eligibility list,
it doesn't give "flexibility" in hiring? Flexibility to WHAT?? hire your
unemployed brother-in-law??
And A+ schools praising this is
disgusting! One reason I camr to the city was that in smaller
communities you WERE hired by "who you knew" Why would ANY sane person
want this? Help me understand how this flexibility is good???
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The article jumps from discussing evaluation of teachers to hiring; is the "eligibility list" for new hires for the district? How is the top ten percent determined- by GPA or what?
A+ Schools once again shows itself to be the an arm of PPS. More disinformation. More propaganda.
How sad.
Sam Franklin said, "We want to be a place (PPS) where great teachers want to stay." Really? Well, maybe PPS wants great teachers to stay until they move up the ladder on the pay scale. So many top notch, seasoned educators have been exited out of their teaching position over the past five years. It's so sad looking back from where the district was to where it is today.
Points are given for a number of factors-- all positive--
Grades yes but attending PPS gave you points-- good for our city,student teaching in an urban environment-- also good for our city, interview, National Teachers exam, and yes, getting all the paperwork in on time- again not bad.
How will A+ spin this study as being good for our schools?
Well, Pittsburgh must be a place Mr. Franklin wants to stay, so you have to believe he means what he says. He came during the Roosevelt administration and some might have predicted he would be gone by now. Say what you will about Mr. Roosevelt but you would be hard-pressed to prove that he did not have a great commitment to developing talent and leaders in the young people he brought to the district. Many of his corps have moved on and some might wonder if we were a place meant to be an incubator in some great design.
All that said, the eligibility list issue, missing out on great talent by having to hire form the top 10%? It just reeks. It is putrid. Can't anyone see there is talking out of the both sides of the mouth going on? Hypocritical.
Are we really surprised by this report? Being that it comes from a conservative advocacy group that has taken money from the Gates Foundation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/ravitch-what-is-nctq-and-why-you-should-know/2012/05/23/gJQAg7CrlU_blog.html
Hold on 6:15 AM. Please don't tell us about Roosevelt's commitment. When the going got tough after years of abusive spending by his administration, he got GOING! Upon his departure he said, I planted the seed for the garden. I'm a change agent." The successful farmer doesn't just plant the seed.
He/She tends to the growing of the garden. That's where the "hard work" begins. Roosevelt and those he brought up under his wing were all inexperienced educational professionals who just nodded their heads saying yes to the likes of Bill Gates.
If you want to grow Pittsburgh students, then you need to have professionals who are grounded in the Pittsburgh area who want to make an impact on student learning to grow our community.
As for "growing these so called great administrators" the fact is that there was and still is so much turmoil between those in charge at Bellefield that the house of cards has begun to crumble. Relationships between two of the so called leaders went so sour one of them had no option than to leave. Now Lippert has been given the cold shoulder by the Lane administration being uninvited to Central Office meetings so she too had to go and a welcomed departure it is. maybe someone competent who is a loyal PPS professional will be appointed to the position to head the Office of Curriculum and Development. I'm sure within a few months we'll soon be hearing about the departure of Lane.
Don't kid yourself, Sam Franklin is staying put for Sam Franklin and the paycheck he's receiving.
The point about Mr. Roosevelt is that he was not born to head a school district. He is definitely where he belonged since birth. If you saw him introduce his very young team brought in from out of town as fresh faced kids, well, you could just see some kind of fatherly pride as he stepped aside to let a kid have the spotlight.
Sounds like morale might be low in the admin building.
The PPS eligibilty list was a very good thing. It filtered out favoritism, nepotism, and, yes, bigotry.
In many suburban school districts, you cannot find work unless you know someone. And if you are too old (whatever that means) or the wrong color, all the worse for you.
The PPS eligibility list was designed to avoid all that. Candidates were placed on the list using strict (and fair) numerical methods.
Make no mistake about it, and spin it any way you want. But any attempt to weaken the PPS eligibility system is just an attempt to introduce favoritism, nepotism, and bigotry into PPS hiring.
Good points also-- and again this may go vack to TFA, in the suburbs, it isnt too old as much as too experienced, too exducated= too expensive
Young new relatives are cheap anf thankful.
As for Roosevelt, we all new he would be gone right before his daughter started Kindergarten-- way too obvious and right on schedule
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