Kaya Henderson has Undermined her own Leadership

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what anybody means by "profoundly gifted." In my educational past, it meant "children of parents who had no social skills and imparted the same to their kids." The basic point being, if you read and study a lot, and hardly ever socialize or enjoy the world, you can get pretty good at doing bookish stuff. Or, if you mean Einstein as an example of a profoundly gifted person, he wasn't recognized as gifted in school because, Einstein.

I hope you are not a teacher. There is an entire literature out there on very high IQ kids and their unique needs. And no, its not about studying alot (many PG kids do not have great study skills, BTW) but about how their brains are wired. They often enjoy the world intensely. They often DO have social problems, again in large part because their way of looking at the world is different from most of their age peers - its why so many such kids are happy with the SOCIAL side of programs like CTY.

As for Einstein, he was of course profoundly gifted, and he was not recognized as gifted at school precisely because German schools of his time (like most American schools today) did not understand the profoundly gifted.

here are some resources for you

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/highly_profoundly.htm

http://www.sengifted.org/

Uh, yeah ok, it looks like scientology to me. I wish your child the best, though.

Re: TJ -- met a lot of TJ's graduates in my life, they are hard workers and tend to be earnest, good-natured people. The best of them tried to party the TJ out of them, later, and were very successful at it.

Not scientology, but science. Keep denying whats inconvenient to you.

And TJ has a range of kids, including some regular gifted kids who are very hard working, but also quite enough profoundly gifted kids. And those kids are not socially isolated which is whats wonderful about TJ.

And of course most TJ kids do not try to "party the TJ out of them" They build on whats wonderful about TJ.

[Anonymous]

I like Kaya. I think she assumed a tough gig and she's improved the system. It's going to take te but the system and the city are moving. In the right direction.

I'm a Kaya fan!

[Anonymous]

OK, I'll play. Please list 10 of Kaya's accomplishments in terms of improving the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, I'll play. Please list 10 of Kaya's accomplishments in terms of improving the system.

Let's talk numbers. Kaya haters, please show us with actual metrics which previous chancellor has helped improve the city-wide school system as much as Kaya has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, I'll play. Please list 10 of Kaya's accomplishments in terms of improving the system.

Let's talk numbers. Kaya haters, please show us with actual metrics which previous chancellor has helped improve the city-wide school system as much as Kaya has.

Are you giving her credit for gentrification?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, I'll play. Please list 10 of Kaya's accomplishments in terms of improving the system.

Let's talk numbers. Kaya haters, please show us with actual metrics which previous chancellor has helped improve the city-wide school system as much as Kaya has.

Are you giving her credit for gentrification?

Heh.

[Anonymous]

https://gfbrandenburg.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/naep-dccas-4th-grade-math-comparison.jpg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://gfbrandenburg.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/naep-dccas-4th-grade-math-comparison.jpg

Same Heh. You need to mine the data better than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, I'll play. Please list 10 of Kaya's accomplishments in terms of improving the system.

Let's talk numbers. Kaya haters, please show us with actual metrics which previous chancellor has helped improve the city-wide school system as much as Kaya has.

Are you giving her credit for gentrification?

I was told that if DCPS does not improve, the only gentrifiers in DC will be singles, DINKs and empty nesters. Are you saying that is not the case?

[Anonymous]

Where are the reading increases?

http://dcist.com/attachments/dcist_sarah/reading_dccas2014.jpg

[Anonymous]

http://www.boldapproach.org/uploads/db_files/Reporter%20Memorandum%20DC%20CAS%20Concerns%2007_14%20.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the reading increases?

http://dcist.com/attachments/dcist_sarah/reading_dccas2014.jpg

Now THAT's relevant data! Some improvement is better than none, at least. Point scored.

[Anonymous]

Where is the improvement since 2008? So this is Kaya's crowning and only achievement? Too bad it doesn't even jibe with NAEP. DCPS and OSSE are playing DC residents for suckers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, I'll play. Please list 10 of Kaya's accomplishments in terms of improving the system.

Let's talk numbers. Kaya haters, please show us with actual metrics which previous chancellor has helped improve the city-wide school system as much as Kaya has.

Are you giving her credit for gentrification?

I was told that if DCPS does not improve, the only gentrifiers in DC will be singles, DINKs and empty nesters. Are you saying that is not the case?

No, I don't believe that's true, DC's resourceful gentrifiers will make the DCPS schools work for them, or they'll continue to build a successful charter system if they can't get critical mass. (That stated, this will happen in waves, the current crop of people leaning into their neighborhood elementary schools will burn out. The next crop will have to tackle middle and high schools.). As a parent, I've got my own blood, sweat, and tears at an improving school, and our improving numbers have had NO help from Kaya, quite the opposite.

[Anonymous]

http://allthingsedu.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-dcps-teacher-resigns.html