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Letter from Cancellor re moving schools - opps - I got caught moving my kid?
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Anonymous
My guess is that happened during the private meeting Grosso, Mendelsohn and Bowser had this am. |
Anonymous
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Ok, next up, how do we get this Schoell woman off the Parents Council? He did what any parent would? Um, no, in his situation every other parent’s option is back to the IB school, go private, homeschool or move. Not cherry pick another high school.
And no, chancellors should not get flexibility in placing their children. You are getting paid multitudes over the average DC salary and can afford to live IB for any school in the District. Make that choice. The right choice over special favors and placements. |
Anonymous
The parents' council has no power or decision making authority -- it's a window dressing thing. Anyone can apply to be part of it. I totally disagree with her view, but that's no reason why she shouldn't be allowed to be on this committee. |
Anonymous
Does anyone know anything about her? |
Anonymous
That quote is pretty idiotic. She's advocating that people should break the rules if circumstances justify. |
Anonymous
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Damn, he's gone. What will he do next? Become a GS-15 for the US Dept of Ed?
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Anonymous
https://dcps.dc.gov/biography/dr-amanda-alexander Dr. Amanda Alexander is the Chief of the Office of Elementary Schools for the District of Columbia Public Schools. She provides leadership and vision for the district’s elementary schools and supervises a team of instructional superintendents. She also oversees early childhood programs (Pre-K3 and Pre-K4) and the federal Head Start program. Dr. Alexander began her career with DCPS in 1998 as a kindergarten teacher at Walker-Jones Elementary School. She later joined New Leaders for New Schools and served as an assistant principal at PS 40 and PS 2 in New York City’s highly acclaimed District 2. With a refined understanding of progressive pedagogies in reading and writing and approaches to teacher professional development, she returned to DCPS to serve as the principal at Bunker Hill Elementary School and later Ross Elementary School. Under her leadership, both schools saw double digit gains in literacy and mathematics. The successes at these diverse schools led then Chancellor Michelle Rhee to charge Dr. Alexander with the redesign of the structure for principal supervision and the management of a cluster of elementary schools as an instructional superintendent. As evidenced by student achievement outcomes, attendance and teacher quality, her cluster of schools significantly outperformed other clusters in the district. 2013, she was asked by Chancellor Kaya Henderson to serve as the Deputy Chief of Schools and focus solely on the recruitment, development, and supervision of the K-12 instructional superintendent team. By leveraging a generous grant from the Wallace Foundation, she provided extensive professional learning opportunities for instructional superintendents focused on the knowledge and skills necessary to support principals in an era of new rigorous standards for student learning. For the pioneering work in the field of principal supervision, DCPS was featured in a documentary and publication of the foundation. Over the course of her time as a central office administrator, Dr. Alexander has also led literacy initiatives and a district-wide taskforce to identify and implement evidenced-based practices to improve student performance. Her efforts in this area have been recognized by the Reading Recovery Council of North America as she is the organization’s 2018 recipient of the Excellence in Literacy Leadership Award. Dr. Alexander has a B.A. in English and a M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Howard University, a M.S.Ed. in educational leadership from Baruch College, and a Ph.D. in education from American University. |
Anonymous
Here's her bio: https://dcps.dc.gov/biography/dr-amanda-alexander |
Anonymous
Nice to see someone who has taken a solid upward trajectory without skipping steps. Always frustrated that Rhee only taught for 3 years and never served in an administrative role in a school system before becoming chancellor. You need that organizational and institutional experience to understand the impacts of your policies. |
Anonymous
| What’s the mortgage on a $1mill home ~8k? |
Anonymous
SES, no doubt. |
Anonymous
The Chancellor's Parent Cabinet is a joke. I was in the first cohort with Kaya Henderson. We went to (usually) monthly meetings, where the agenda was set by DCPS, and got to hear about how great they were doing with their initiatives. We usually got to ask questions - they were 1/3 good questions, 1/3 too specific to be relevant, and 1/3 focused on upper middle class parents wanting things like more foreign language instruction and more recess for their 5 year olds who did not get the challenges of DCPS (or perhaps didn't care). It is a PR stunt to say "We are engaged!" but these people are not influential. I don't know how Wilson conducted the meetings, but Kaya was overly cheery about progress and unwilling/unable to address the concerns of all (partly because DCPS has such massive gaps and is too complicated of a system to manage well). I also felt like she was kind of dismissive of some parents who tried to talk about harder issues like disparity and inequity among the starkly divided students in some school populations (me included). |
Anonymous
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Not at all surprising that this would be the issue that drives more calls to a council member than any other.
It was funny watching Brandon Todd twist in the wind having no idea which direction to go. |
Anonymous
| Amanda Alexander should have been chancellor after Henderson (and possibly Davis), not Wilson. She lives here, she breathes DCPS -and has for some time, she knows all the people and places. Glad to see she’s getting her rightful place at the top. She’s as smart and as straight-arrow as they come. |
Anonymous
+1. Looks impressive to me. |