APS: back to normal in the fall?

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Anonymous wrote:My hunch is that APS is going to be under a great deal of pressure to get the fall right. It's been such a half-a$$ed effort for a year and we have lost a ton of families to private.

Funding is being impacted and overall, the APS reputation has taken a big hit. The fall needs to be a huge improvement for APS.

Doubt that’ll happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And I realize the grouping by skill level is horribly wrong...

No you don’t.

Why is it wrong? Isn’t it wrong to have those that are capable of doing more just sit there while the teacher works with those who struggle?

Because it’s inequitable.

LOL

Life is inequitable!!

Time to get over it.

I love you!! Life’s not fair. Suck it up.

Found the Republican!

[Anonymous]

I believe that APS announced 5 day in person for the fall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And I realize the grouping by skill level is horribly wrong...

No you don’t.

Why is it wrong? Isn’t it wrong to have those that are capable of doing more just sit there while the teacher works with those who struggle?

Because it’s inequitable.

Meeting all kids where they are isn’t inequitable; teaching to one level is what would be inequitable. Kids are grouped by skill level within classes every day in APS. That is how education is supposed to work, and APS hasn’t thrown that away (yet), thank god.

I have observed recently that some people seem to have come up with new definitions for “equitable.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But will teachers be back? My kid is back two days a week but our principal is still having teachers deliver most instruction remotely by Teams, even for K-2.

We all agree that virtual doesn't work well for K-2, so why is this okay?

In-person kids should receive in-person reading/writing/math in the fall. Beyond that, I’m not too picky.

But if kids are back 5 days it’s unlikely they will have iPad specials.

As I've learned this year, every principal gets to choose. Ours has chosen to allow grade level teachers to co-teach via Teams, so one teacher teachers math/reading/writing to multiple classrooms via Teams while their classroom teacher does other prep. It greatly reduces teacher prep and instructional time, so teachers love it. I am very afraid it's here to stay.

Is this at Glebe? I doubt that will continue in the fall.

Generally, teachers should be teaching as a team and dividing up the prep work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I realize the grouping by skill level is horribly wrong...

No you don’t.

Why is it wrong? Isn’t it wrong to have those that are capable of doing more just sit there while the teacher works with those who struggle?

Because it’s inequitable.

LOL

Life is inequitable!!

Time to get over it.

I love you!! Life’s not fair. Suck it up.

Found the Republican!

The extremely privileged Republican who DGAF about others. Or maybe that goes without saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I realize the grouping by skill level is horribly wrong...

No you don’t.

Why is it wrong? Isn’t it wrong to have those that are capable of doing more just sit there while the teacher works with those who struggle?

Because it’s inequitable.

Meeting all kids where they are isn’t inequitable; teaching to one level is what would be inequitable. Kids are grouped by skill level within classes every day in APS. That is how education is supposed to work, and APS hasn’t thrown that away (yet), thank god.

I have observed recently that some people seem to have come up with new definitions for “equitable.”

+1

APS uses clusters within and across classes to differentiate. To give kids both extra challenge and extra support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My hunch is that APS is going to be under a great deal of pressure to get the fall right. It's been such a half-a$$ed effort for a year and we have lost a ton of families to private.

Funding is being impacted and overall, the APS reputation has taken a big hit. The fall needs to be a huge improvement for APS.

APS handled the deadly pandemic appropriately.

And it will continue to address the learning gaps from this past year.

[Anonymous]

A lot of times, APS addresses equity by lowering everyone to the same standard. That benefits no one.

As far as team teaching, our 3rd grader is in that situation. I appreciate that the grade level decided it was the best way to divide resources, but I don't like that it means my kid is watching a video every.single.day. The teachers could divide the slides, but not pre-record everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of times, APS addresses equity by lowering everyone to the same standard. That benefits no one.

As far as team teaching, our 3rd grader is in that situation. I appreciate that the grade level decided it was the best way to divide resources, but I don't like that it means my kid is watching a video every.single.day. The teachers could divide the slides, but not pre-record everything.

They're pre-recording 3rd grade while the classroom teachers just sit there instead of teaching? It's not a college lecture. That's 100% inappropriate.

The Glebe principal needs to be relieved of her decision making authority. She clearly doesn't care about student learning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But will teachers be back? My kid is back two days a week but our principal is still having teachers deliver most instruction remotely by Teams, even for K-2.

We all agree that virtual doesn't work well for K-2, so why is this okay?

In-person kids should receive in-person reading/writing/math in the fall. Beyond that, I’m not too picky.

But if kids are back 5 days it’s unlikely they will have iPad specials.

As I've learned this year, every principal gets to choose. Ours has chosen to allow grade level teachers to co-teach via Teams, so one teacher teachers math/reading/writing to multiple classrooms via Teams while their classroom teacher does other prep. It greatly reduces teacher prep and instructional time, so teachers love it. I am very afraid it's here to stay.

Is this at Glebe? I doubt that will continue in the fall.

Generally, teachers should be teaching as a team and dividing up the prep work.

Our elementary (not Glebe) already did this before the pandemic for the upper elementary grades. It allowed teachers to focus on their strengths and kids to get used to being taught by multiple teachers like they would in middle school. Also allowed for kids to sometimes get to be in class with friends who weren’t in their assigned “home room” class. I never heard any complaints about it from parents or kids. Team teaching worked just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But will teachers be back? My kid is back two days a week but our principal is still having teachers deliver most instruction remotely by Teams, even for K-2.

We all agree that virtual doesn't work well for K-2, so why is this okay?

In-person kids should receive in-person reading/writing/math in the fall. Beyond that, I’m not too picky.

But if kids are back 5 days it’s unlikely they will have iPad specials.

As I've learned this year, every principal gets to choose. Ours has chosen to allow grade level teachers to co-teach via Teams, so one teacher teachers math/reading/writing to multiple classrooms via Teams while their classroom teacher does other prep. It greatly reduces teacher prep and instructional time, so teachers love it. I am very afraid it's here to stay.

That's unfortunate. Which school is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But will teachers be back? My kid is back two days a week but our principal is still having teachers deliver most instruction remotely by Teams, even for K-2.

We all agree that virtual doesn't work well for K-2, so why is this okay?

In-person kids should receive in-person reading/writing/math in the fall. Beyond that, I’m not too picky.

But if kids are back 5 days it’s unlikely they will have iPad specials.

As I've learned this year, every principal gets to choose. Ours has chosen to allow grade level teachers to co-teach via Teams, so one teacher teachers math/reading/writing to multiple classrooms via Teams while their classroom teacher does other prep. It greatly reduces teacher prep and instructional time, so teachers love it. I am very afraid it's here to stay.

Is this at Glebe? I doubt that will continue in the fall.

Generally, teachers should be teaching as a team and dividing up the prep work.

Based on what? Jamie seems to think that it's completely fine.

[Anonymous]

Petition lady is very unhappy about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But will teachers be back? My kid is back two days a week but our principal is still having teachers deliver most instruction remotely by Teams, even for K-2.

We all agree that virtual doesn't work well for K-2, so why is this okay?

In-person kids should receive in-person reading/writing/math in the fall. Beyond that, I’m not too picky.

But if kids are back 5 days it’s unlikely they will have iPad specials.

As I've learned this year, every principal gets to choose. Ours has chosen to allow grade level teachers to co-teach via Teams, so one teacher teachers math/reading/writing to multiple classrooms via Teams while their classroom teacher does other prep. It greatly reduces teacher prep and instructional time, so teachers love it. I am very afraid it's here to stay.

Is this at Glebe? I doubt that will continue in the fall.

Generally, teachers should be teaching as a team and dividing up the prep work.

Our elementary (not Glebe) already did this before the pandemic for the upper elementary grades. It allowed teachers to focus on their strengths and kids to get used to being taught by multiple teachers like they would in middle school. Also allowed for kids to sometimes get to be in class with friends who weren’t in their assigned “home room” class. I never heard any complaints about it from parents or kids. Team teaching worked just fine.

Before the pandemic, you had one teacher delivering a lesson to multiple elementary classrooms via Teams at the same time so some kids never got in person math instruction? I bet not. Your kid switched teachers and still got in person instruction. Not one teacher lecturing two classes on Teams with no diffentiation.