Head Start next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these PPs who are saying instructional coaching isn't necessary? Professional athletes--the best in the game--have coaches. In business, you have mentors to bounce ideas off and guide you. Even the best teachers can benefit from another professional's take. Each year, they get a new crop of kids, with a new crop of challenges. And that is before you even consider new hires and changes in curriculum.

Because the Head Start instructional coaching that DCPS provides is not actually very good.

And what criteria are you using to assess the quality? Please enlighten us.

The teachers all tell me it's stupid and boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS might cover some things for a year, but I can see schools being forced to make cuts to the number of ECE classes they have. It might now happen right away but it will happen when DCPS realized just how expensive ECE really is. DCPS lucked out with having Head Start to build a great program for 10-12 years but that is coming to an end very soon.

This is almost certainly the instructional coach troll again... AFAI can tell, all of our PK teachers are excellent and don’t need instructional coaching to stay that way.

Oh right, I remember. The troll was stirring up drama and underlying it all was the loss of her role as instructional coach. Sorry troll!

[Anonymous]

You folks are hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way for parents to call Head Start and tell them how much they love and benefit from having Head Start at DCPS? That might help DCPS get the grant again.

You mean we should call the Betsy DeVos Department of (Destroying) Education and tell them we are DC parents who want more money from
the feds?

The Republicans that run the Department of Educate HATE us and they hate our kids.

Best case, some civil servants are reviewing the Head Start grant and we get a reasonable renewal.
Worst case, the DCPS renewal catches the eye of some Republican low-educated political hack from Regent U or Liberty U who wants to punish DC.

Either way, I’m not sure calling them does much that’s positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these PPs who are saying instructional coaching isn't necessary? Professional athletes--the best in the game--have coaches. In business, you have mentors to bounce ideas off and guide you. Even the best teachers can benefit from another professional's take. Each year, they get a new crop of kids, with a new crop of challenges. And that is before you even consider new hires and changes in curriculum.

I was an instructional coach in DCPS. I had no training prior to being selected for a coach position. I received minimal basic training from DCPS. I enjoyed helping teachers get better but hated coaching DCPS style. I continue to do everything you mentioned without the title. LEAP is a joke and the coaching observation model doesn’t happen. It was, however, the easiest job I ever had in a school.

[Anonymous]

So I’ve heard Head Start grants provides a school with:

Teaching training or coaching (debatable quality); materials; and what else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I’ve heard Head Start grants provides a school with:

Teaching training or coaching (debatable quality); materials; and what else?

Family services support, student mental health support, professional development for teachers, GOLD support, And CLASS training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’ve heard Head Start grants provides a school with:

Teaching training or coaching (debatable quality); materials; and what else?

Family services support, student mental health support, professional development for teachers, GOLD support, And CLASS training.

What does family services support, student mental health services mean exactly/look like? And are these things needed for middle and upper middle class student?

Also I have no idea what GOLD is? And I’m not convinced that so many diff forms of prof dev/training are needed. Is there overlap or duplication?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’ve heard Head Start grants provides a school with:

Teaching training or coaching (debatable quality); materials; and what else?

Family services support, student mental health support, professional development for teachers, GOLD support, And CLASS training.

What does family services support, student mental health services mean exactly/look like? And are these things needed for middle and upper middle class student?

Also I have no idea what GOLD is? And I’m not convinced that so many diff forms of prof dev/training are needed. Is there overlap or duplication?

At our T1 school, we have a ECE family support coordinator who can help parents find jobs/job training, stable housing, domestic violence issues, apply for health insurance/food stamps/TANF, etc. We’ve never used the services but I have filled out the survey where they ask about it. They also provided dental services in school last year. No idea if this is tied to Head Start or not but I’d guess it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these PPs who are saying instructional coaching isn't necessary? Professional athletes--the best in the game--have coaches. In business, you have mentors to bounce ideas off and guide you. Even the best teachers can benefit from another professional's take. Each year, they get a new crop of kids, with a new crop of challenges. And that is before you even consider new hires and changes in curriculum.

Because the Head Start instructional coaching that DCPS provides is not actually very good.

And what criteria are you using to assess the quality? Please enlighten us.

The teachers all tell me it's stupid and boring.

Ha! My Head Start teachers say the same thing...they hate having someone looking over their shoulders to make sure they're adhering to the HS standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these PPs who are saying instructional coaching isn't necessary? Professional athletes--the best in the game--have coaches. In business, you have mentors to bounce ideas off and guide you. Even the best teachers can benefit from another professional's take. Each year, they get a new crop of kids, with a new crop of challenges. And that is before you even consider new hires and changes in curriculum.

Because the Head Start instructional coaching that DCPS provides is not actually very good.

And what criteria are you using to assess the quality? Please enlighten us.

The teachers all tell me it's stupid and boring.

Ha! My Head Start teachers say the same thing...they hate having someone looking over their shoulders to make sure they're adhering to the HS standards.

Too bad. The instructional coaches help support the teachers with implementing the curriculum properly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’ve heard Head Start grants provides a school with:

Teaching training or coaching (debatable quality); materials; and what else?

Family services support, student mental health support, professional development for teachers, GOLD support, And CLASS training.

What does family services support, student mental health services mean exactly/look like? And are these things needed for middle and upper middle class student?

Also I have no idea what GOLD is? And I’m not convinced that so many diff forms of prof dev/training are needed. Is there overlap or duplication?

GOLD is Teaching Strategies' (Creative Curriculum) assessment/observation/lesson planning system.
CLASS is a research-based tool that is used to score teacher-child interactions and OSSE uses it to rate schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these PPs who are saying instructional coaching isn't necessary? Professional athletes--the best in the game--have coaches. In business, you have mentors to bounce ideas off and guide you. Even the best teachers can benefit from another professional's take. Each year, they get a new crop of kids, with a new crop of challenges. And that is before you even consider new hires and changes in curriculum.

Because the Head Start instructional coaching that DCPS provides is not actually very good.

And what criteria are you using to assess the quality? Please enlighten us.

The teachers all tell me it's stupid and boring.

Ha! My Head Start teachers say the same thing...they hate having someone looking over their shoulders to make sure they're adhering to the HS standards.

Too bad. The instructional coaches help support the teachers with implementing the curriculum properly.

If you need someone to make sure a teacher implements the curriculum correctly you need to fire a teacher. I would be very worried about any school that talked like this. I want admin and the district to trust the teachers. If you can’t trust them to implement curriculum (their job) what CAN you trust them to do??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’ve heard Head Start grants provides a school with:

Teaching training or coaching (debatable quality); materials; and what else?

Family services support, student mental health support, professional development for teachers, GOLD support, And CLASS training.

What does family services support, student mental health services mean exactly/look like? And are these things needed for middle and upper middle class student?

Also I have no idea what GOLD is? And I’m not convinced that so many diff forms of prof dev/training are needed. Is there overlap or duplication?

GOLD is Teaching Strategies' (Creative Curriculum) assessment/observation/lesson planning system.
CLASS is a research-based tool that is used to score teacher-child interactions and OSSE uses it to rate schools.

Interestingly, GOLD doesn't seem to be implemented at my kid's current T1 losing T1 school; I only noticed because it was very much used at my kid's true T1 last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these PPs who are saying instructional coaching isn't necessary? Professional athletes--the best in the game--have coaches. In business, you have mentors to bounce ideas off and guide you. Even the best teachers can benefit from another professional's take. Each year, they get a new crop of kids, with a new crop of challenges. And that is before you even consider new hires and changes in curriculum.

Because the Head Start instructional coaching that DCPS provides is not actually very good.

And what criteria are you using to assess the quality? Please enlighten us.

The teachers all tell me it's stupid and boring.

Ha! My Head Start teachers say the same thing...they hate having someone looking over their shoulders to make sure they're adhering to the HS standards.

Too bad. The instructional coaches help support the teachers with implementing the curriculum properly.

If you need someone to make sure a teacher implements the curriculum correctly you need to fire a teacher. I would be very worried about any school that talked like this. I want admin and the district to trust the teachers. If you can’t trust them to implement curriculum (their job) what CAN you trust them to do??

When you hold someone to a standard and expect them to meet that standard, then you get consistent results of that standard.

When you don’t, most people take the lazy way out and and do the minimum. That’s what DC teachers did in the past when DC was the poorest performing district in the country,

Lastly no principals have much on their plate and cannot monitor or help all the teachers to implement.