Skyview/TJ collaboration

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

I thought the original vision for TJ was to be a magnet school like Stuyvesant.

Do you have a cite to the notion that TJ was intended to be a lab school to pilot new ideas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

I thought the original vision for TJ was to be a magnet school like Stuyvesant.

Do you have a cite to the notion that TJ was intended to be a lab school to pilot new ideas?

The two are not mutually exclusive and, no, I don't have a cite. It may have been in older School Board minutes from the 1980s when TJHSST was being established. I don't have the time to dig it up. In case you haven't noticed, DCUM isn't a peer-reviewed journal, so we don't have to footnote everything we choose to share.

I also recall that the original recommendation was to have the magnet at Annandale HS, but that community fought to preserve AHS as a neighborhood school and Jefferson ended up being shut down and repurposed instead. They were going to close one of Annandale, Jefferson, or Stuart (now Justice) due to lower enrollment in that part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

TJ staff were notified about Skyview visiting a month ago. They visited classrooms and met with students and teachers to learn about the IBET program and teamed courses.

It was definitely not explained to TJ staff that it was a collaboration beyond the one meeting to share information about TJ courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

TJ staff were notified about Skyview visiting a month ago. They visited classrooms and met with students and teachers to learn about the IBET program and teamed courses.

It was definitely not explained to TJ staff that it was a collaboration beyond the one meeting to share information about TJ courses.

Well I work at TJ, and have heard that they will continue to collaborate.