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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. OSSE is NOT controlled by teachers, where do you get your info from?? 
2. Mayoral control of schools needs better balances. Why can we not have mayoral control and a school board?
3. Please stop trying to paint teachers as villains, most of us work really hard and dcps is not the best working environment, there are still 60+ teacher vacancies and I’m sure some of your children have had to deal with the repercussions of this.

You only see part of the story. Tell me how you can do your job if you and your ‘clients,’ patients, or whomever are sweating buckets, or freezing?
If your clients have sensory issues and the lights won’t turn off or dim, even though you are supposed to serve them according to their needs?
If there’s a gas leak.
A hole in the roof?
Sewage leaks?
You don’t have all the materials necessary for your job?

I could go on. Teachers are by far not the only voices that should be heard but people who are on the frontlines have ideas about how to make things better.

I want evaluations, from someone knowledgeable about my program. Someone who knows how to make me a stronger teacher. I like the school rating system if only it wasn’t just about standardized testing, those scores only give you a small picture.

Sigh, my point is that mayoral control has not improved outcomes in this city as much as I think our students deserve. We have to invest in teachers, paras, school infrastructure, and appropriate materials. Not just what we think looks good. [/quote]

You have no idea what happens at some of these schools do you? I’m actually a school counselor, not a teacher. We often don’t have a math teacher for an entire year and the kids miss that entire year of math. Impact is partly but not entirely responsible for driving some decent teachers away. I don’t think most of you have any clue what happens within schools especially ward 8 schools. Impact is based on one 30 minute evaluation and it is supposed to be a snapshot of the whole year. Is that how your evaluations are done? What if the teacher has one bad day but surprise - that is the day the administrator walks in to do their 20-30 minute evaluation. Often, the administrator has no content level knowledge of the subject the teacher is teaching. So it could be an administrator who used to be a PE or music teacher who is now doing the Impact evaluation of a physics teacher. Is that fair? And plenty of crappy teachers get a good impact score because they are friends with the principal. I am so thankful I am not a teacher. And again, most other districts don’t have an Impact type evaluation but end up with overall stronger performance even in their poorest schools. It makes you wonder what Impact is achieving. Punitive systems tend to be less effective than setups where they genuinely try to support you to help you improve [/quote]

Um you read my message incorrectly. Also I’ll do you one better, I am a self contained teacher. I’m so sick of JUST hearing about ward 8 when there are title 1 schools in other locations and yes I work at a title 1 school. Please stop with this ‘only my students matter BS, they ALL matter.

Not sure why you are getting on your soapbox to a teacher who just stated that the infrastructure, school environment, and materials provided impacts a teacher’s ability to teach.

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