The PD video teachers must watch on Monday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So MCPS teachers- how bad was it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So MCPS teachers- how bad was it?

It was a waste of a day.
Why does MCPS never do content PDs? I would find it useful to get together with other high school teachers who teach my content area and have a session with a master teacher on best practices, etc

[Anonymous]

Did they distribute a slide deck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So MCPS teachers- how bad was it?

It was a waste of a day.
Why does MCPS never do content PDs? I would find it useful to get together with other high school teachers who teach my content area and have a session with a master teacher on best practices, etc

Not to mention we have random district PD days (at least in my content area) where we have to take a professional leave day and secure a sub...they could have just had a systemwide one today where people met at different locations. A MUCH better use of my time...the kids dont miss a day of instruction...I don't potentially put my co-workers in danger of having to cover for me if the sub cancels..etc... etc..Nah, lets just choose some random nutjob to attempt to brainwash us into buying into asinine ideas that would never work in practice.

[Anonymous]

MCPS cut the budget for most content PD. At least for electives. Not even paying for us to get subs to get district PD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teachers/administrators, would someone post the slides from today’s training here? The training as part of the “audit” was broader than the video segment. Parents have a right to know how public school teachers are being trained to interact with/teach their children. Thanks you.

It's mostly from the video that was posted at the beginning of the thread. It has reflection questions that we paused for. The other stuff was about our new equity plan based on the anti racist audit, nothing groundbreaking.

But you also don't actually have the right to any MCPS training materials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teachers/administrators, would someone post the slides from today’s training here? The training as part of the “audit” was broader than the video segment. Parents have a right to know how public school teachers are being trained to interact with/teach their children. Thanks you.

It's mostly from the video that was posted at the beginning of the thread. It has reflection questions that we paused for. The other stuff was about our new equity plan based on the anti racist audit, nothing groundbreaking.

But you also don't actually have the right to any MCPS training materials.

Oh right it is a private school.

[Anonymous]

We did not get the slides.

We spent time talking about how to identify different forms of racism in our curriculum. (Well, we never really had time to actually look at our curriculum, but just talked about what we should do it we see it.) And what to do when that happens. Again it is our responsible for throwing out lessons from the curriculum that are deemed racist and make up our own lessons. MCPS has so many people in central office, why don't they buy/create anti-racist curriculum, so teachers don't have to waste time rewriting the curriculum that we are required to teach. This is what is wrong with MCPS - the curriculum contains racist elements. Why don't we just have the teachers fix it. No one could answer when we are supposed to plan these new anti-racist lesson. And again, why is it my responsibility to rewrite the curriculum that MCPS requires me to teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did not get the slides.

We spent time talking about how to identify different forms of racism in our curriculum. (Well, we never really had time to actually look at our curriculum, but just talked about what we should do it we see it.) And what to do when that happens. Again it is our responsible for throwing out lessons from the curriculum that are deemed racist and make up our own lessons. MCPS has so many people in central office, why don't they buy/create anti-racist curriculum, so teachers don't have to waste time rewriting the curriculum that we are required to teach. This is what is wrong with MCPS - the curriculum contains racist elements. Why don't we just have the teachers fix it. No one could answer when we are supposed to plan these new anti-racist lesson. And again, why is it my responsibility to rewrite the curriculum that MCPS requires me to teach.

I'm curious as to which lessons are considered racist these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teachers/administrators, would someone post the slides from today’s training here? The training as part of the “audit” was broader than the video segment. Parents have a right to know how public school teachers are being trained to interact with/teach their children. Thanks you.

It's mostly from the video that was posted at the beginning of the thread. It has reflection questions that we paused for. The other stuff was about our new equity plan based on the anti racist audit, nothing groundbreaking.

But you also don't actually have the right to any MCPS training materials.

Weird, because as taxpayers, all of us are paying for this training. Why is there no transparency? What would MCPS need to hide?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teachers/administrators, would someone post the slides from today’s training here? The training as part of the “audit” was broader than the video segment. Parents have a right to know how public school teachers are being trained to interact with/teach their children. Thanks you.

It's mostly from the video that was posted at the beginning of the thread. It has reflection questions that we paused for. The other stuff was about our new equity plan based on the anti racist audit, nothing groundbreaking.

But you also don't actually have the right to any MCPS training materials.

Weird, because as taxpayers, all of us are paying for this training. Why is there no transparency? What would MCPS need to hide?

You could get this thru a state open records act request.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So MCPS teachers- how bad was it?

It was a waste of a day.
Why does MCPS never do content PDs? I would find it useful to get together with other high school teachers who teach my content area and have a session with a master teacher on best practices, etc

+1. This above is exactly what I as a parent want to know. Where is the PD on best practices and helping student w/ dyslexia or ADHD? Where is the PD that really reviews and unpacks grade level standards so that teachers can better plan and prepare for the year? Where’s the PD exploring the new Social Studies curriculum for the ES? Where is the PD on mental health and well being for staff and students? Where is the PD for counselors and team leads to help enrich academic advising? Where is the PD for teachers creating novels studies in MS? Where is the PD on resources and tools for EML students? Where is the PD on DEI that actually makes sense for MCPS schools?

Given all that is facing teachers, how did anyone think that video is what was needed

[Anonymous]

I'm sure someone leaked the training materials to Moms for Liberty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure someone leaked the training materials to Moms for Liberty.

They are public. It is not a leak.

[Anonymous]

Mcps is obsessed with racism. My opinion is that they use racism to blame teachers for the crime and violence in the classroom. I caught alot of grief as a teacher for writing the students up for behavior issues in the classroom that could lead to students getting hurt. I was told by admin that I didn't understand that what I thought was behavior problems was just racism on the teachers behalf who didn't understand minority culture. Just remember that teachers. If kids fight, cuss you out, or throw chairs at each other its just the teacher being a racist.