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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an elementary teacher in the county. Some areas of Central office are so understaffed, and other positions could be easily cut. For example, the county added 12 county-level math content coaches this year. They took 12 hard-working school-based teachers AWAY from working with students and placed them in Central in advisory roles. It is a horrible waste of money.

I think we need someone to come in and really evaluate each position and see what can be reduced or combined and what is essential.[/quote]

Aren’t math coaches assigned to a number of schools to work with teachers to deliver better math instruction, help analyze their data, teach the curriculum, work with students?  If that works they will actually be helping more students .[/quote]

The problem is that it sounds great, but is not effective and does not benefit the students. Each of these new math coaches is assigned to 4 schools (at least at the elementary level). They are coming to meetings and creating more work and data for the teachers. They are cherry-picking data, so maybe there looks like there are minor gains? Our school is very resentful and we are not seeing increases in anything except workload. Our students struggle due to having no home support, being new to the country, food insecurity, etc. Another person coming to meetings does not directly support them. Only people not in schools would think it does.

What they need to do is provide differentiated curriculum materials to all teachers in all schools. It would be so nice if they reduced the workload for teachers instead of increasing it. If they did that, they would probably also see increased data (as long as they cherry-pick correctly), help more schools, need fewer central office staff, and have fewer resentful teachers.

And it reduces central office staff- even by a few- the point of this thread. Every area needs to be scrutinized.[/quote]

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