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I actually had quite a different response. I feel like she knows exactly what isn’t working and has first-hand experience as a recent APS teacher to know what needs changing. I wasn’t sold on her at first, but really, we have an absolute vacuum of institutional knowledge (3 SB members leaving and a new as-yet-to-be-named Super). We really need somebody with a lot of institutional knowledge, and I appreciate her perspective as a classroom teacher. She knows that all these stupid new initiatives that roll out one after the other with no teacher training and without any method of evaluating how well or if they are working are a large problem. Always chasing the shiny new thing and abandoning things without understanding why they didn’t work hasn’t worked and won’t work in the future. These sweeping “visions” without understanding how they’d be implemented, or the realities inside classrooms that sometimes make even the best ideas infeasible, are not what we need. We need experience, and a return to things that were working (like direct and explicit English language instruction). She’s the only one old enough to have gone to teacher’s college before the “balanced literacy” bs took over. She might be the only one to know that most teachers wouldn’t even know how to teach kids to read except the way they do now, and if we expect them to change, we won’t do it by shaming them, but by retraining them. [/quote]

+1 million!!!!!!  It's absolutely terrifying that 3/5 will be new and a new superintendent!!!! We need Sandy on the Board![/quote]

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