Dr. Duran must go
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Anonymous
They are aimlessly and baselessly spewing hate. |
Anonymous
I’m not your link b1tch. If you follow SB meetings you would have seen it. But clearly you haven’t so… |
Anonymous
No one in this entire thread has even suggested a plan beyond teachers doing what they normally do plus Dreambox and Lexia. Nothing additional is planned. You keep saying there's something more, but refuse to say what. If there is more, them for goodness sake, enlighten me. The silence is deafening. |
Anonymous
LOL, it's literally on the website. You mean stuff like this: What is accelerated learning? Accelerated learning allows APS teachers to focus on teaching students current grade-level material, while reinforcing skills and concepts from the previous level that are necessary to master the new content. It builds on students’ prior knowledge and experiences and aims to make learning accessible. How will we approach it? As teachers work to accelerate student learning, they will: 1. Plan instruction utilizing reframed APS curriculum documents that emphasize the most critical skills and knowledge for each course or grade level 2. Work in Collaborative Learning Teams (CLTs) to plan meaningful and engaging instruction for all students with diverse learning needs 3. Prioritize the teaching of identified power standards which vertically align to the previous and next grade level. 4. Utilize scaffolding strategies to help students with diverse learning needs master the key concepts in grade-level content 5. Determine students’ unfinished learning and identify any learning gaps through the use of assessments (Ex: ELA will assess students’ foundational reading skills using DIBELS) 6. Address the identified key gaps during learning. This work will not be done in isolation or through a separate remediation program, but during current instruction at the appropriate time. 7. Provide targeted interventions to address significant learning gaps 8. Gather formative data to gauge students’ understanding and use it to inform ongoing planning with collaborative teams 9. Monitor student progress and provide modifications and supports based on results 10. Utilize new resources to address identified learning gaps 11. Provide targeted, explicit, and specially designed instruction to SWD to address IEP and/or Recovery Service goals 12. Monitor progress on IEP and/or Recovery Service Goals for SWD using ongoing data 13. Communicate content and language learning targets in student-friendly language accessible to students’ English Language Proficiency (ELP) levels 14. Provide instruction appropriately scaffolded for English Learners in alignment with their ELP levels Students will: 1. Receive grade-level material and tasks, along with any necessary scaffolds to make the work accessible. 2. Engage in meaningful instruction that uses a variety of approaches, such as: hands-on activities, cooperative learning, and project-based learning 3. Demonstrate their understanding through various forms of assessments, including performance tasks 4. Work collaboratively with their peers to learn rigorous content 5. Engage in small group instruction to focus on specific skills and/or IEP goals 6. Set goals for content and language learning (specific for English Learners) 7. Engage in sustained reciprocal conversation targeting content and language goals (specific for English Learners) |
Anonymous
Um ok. It’s clear you don’t have a corporate type job. 😂. This is the kind of fluff project documents are led with. High level ideas that have no measurable actions, timelines, or stated goals. And common sense should tell you that teachers simply don’t have the time - as in literally not enough school hours - to actually create, implement, track and measure outcomes for each individual student. They couldn’t do that pre covid so it’s crazy to think they can do it now. |
Anonymous
| The aggressive use of the word utilized gives me little hope for that plan. Sounds like something an office staffer wrote without any actual teacher input. |
Anonymous
Yes, you keep demonstrating that you are uninformed. The SB presentations are all there, lazy mofo. Maybe if you took a break from your tantrum for one second you could learn the facts. |
Anonymous
+1 This dude thinks Duran is responsible for the spring of 2020 decisions when Duran wasn’t even hired yet. |
Anonymous
Yup. Total nonsense. Laying it all at the feet of classroom teachers without giving them additional resources. No wonder teachers are stressed. How exactly are they supposed to do more small group instruction when class sizes went up this year? When APS cut summer school for most kids who needed it so there is an even bigger learning gap in the classroom? When APS spent nearly all of the federal funds on VLP so there's nothing left for additional supports? Other school district have found ways to provide additional people and instructional hours. Those are plans. This is telling teachers to solve the problem on their own. Duran can't be bothered. |
Anonymous
Ding Ding Ding!! You're finally starting to understand! Teachers work well beyond school hours to help their students. And yes, teachers are tracking this type of data for students. This is a big part of a teacher's job, COVID or no COVID. As for timelines, measurable actions and stated goals, your ignorance is showing yet again! See the VA SOL site for more information about measurable grade-level standards. |
Anonymous
Exactly. So PP should stop sh1tting over Duran and teachers. Instead PP should try to support them during this challenging time. If PP actually has kids in APS. |
Anonymous
There has been no sh1tting on teachers. The argument is that Duran should be giving them more resources, not dumping the immense task of getting kids back up to grade level solely on them while also increasing class sizes and cutting summer school. No one doubts that VA SOL standards exist. Thanks for missing the point. The issue is the lack of a plan to help kids to meet those standards. Other schools are putting in place more specialists for pull outs and small group instruction. They're increasing instructional hours. APS is asking teachers to do more with less, plus Lexia and Dreambox of course. |
Anonymous
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The no-plan poster: There is no plan!
Next poster: Here's the plan and it's been posted on the APS website for months. The no-plan poster: Oops, I didn't mean to say there's no plan. I meant how can they implement this plan without enough resources? Everyone: Thank you! Let's fund our schools better!!!!! |
Anonymous
x1 million 
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Anonymous
Please tell me dreambox and lexia is not still happening for the younger grades.. they should not be on Ipads at all. |