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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am at a DCPS school and I will be leaving after this year. The expectations are unbearable. There is very little positive regard from admin.[/quote]

I will be leaving DCPS at the end of the year as well. If I find a better opportunity mid-year, I will leave mid-year. Teaching is extremely stressful but even more so in a district that continually throws additional requirements on my plate without the training or **time** to get them done. [/quote]

This seems to be a common issue that I hear about from teachers.  What are the new requirements about?

I wonder sometimes how everyone's desire for more data (see: complaints about OSSE) conflicts with the fact that that it requires teachers/school staff to do more bureaucratic, time-consuming record-keeping.[/quote]

I know there’s additional paperwork requirements for SPED teachers. We have kids with 12 hours of pull out instruction on IEPs and they literally get 0 because the SPED teacher is doing paperwork.

There’s additional testing called RCTs that are at least one per subject per quarter for ES. Someone (WTU?) send a survey and I think I counted 9 district required assessments for the first quarter.

The kids’ behavior is out of control and there’s nothing admin can or will do. They can’t be suspended (and that just makes our job of teaching them harder). Kids running around the school building, just walking out, wandering the room, calling teachers bruh, etc.

Kids a need significant emotional help and they aren’t getting it. We had five self harm threats in a week in one grade level.

Building security issues, staff don’t have keys, classrooms don’t have heat, we run out of drinking water, bathrooms don’t work, etc. [/quote]

Are RCTs = randomized control trials?  What is that?  Are those teacher assessments or student assessments?

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RCTs are required curricular tasks. They are assessments designed by central and given to students in every content area at least once a term. Teachers are not allowed to modify them I any way to meet the needs of the students or classroom instruction. Iready, diebels, and tests like that are nationally normed, so while they are time consuming, they are least provide good comparative data. Anet is designed to be like PARCC and prepare students for that test. I don't find the data nearly as useful since most of my students are below grade level and struggle through it, but at least it helps me prepare them for PARCC. RCTs are not normed, are not based on PARCC, and no one really knows where they came from, but they are a new requirement this year. They can't replace teacher created tests, because we still need to do some assessing based on what we have taught and what students have learned to do. So I have no idea what the purpose of RCTs is, other than to be another test that takes away from instructional time and provides absolutely no value to instruction.[/quote]

I helped create the RCTs over the summer for DCPS and in theory it made sense as a great quick way for teachers to check in and get data. In reality, as the PP mentioned, we have WAY TOO MANY tests that we need to administer, and as PP mentioned they all meet different needs. It is incredibly frustrating, because you barely have time to receive and analyze data before getting another batch. It just results in instructional time being lost for testing and teachers trying to grade based off way too many data points[/quote]

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