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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we have a superintendent with no experience with stellar school districts in moco anyways??

Implementing regional programs should be done slowly, one or two programs at a time before completely disbanding otherwise extremely successful county wide programs. Hire the county wide program teachers to teach curriculum over the summers to other teachers to implement in new regional programs. This is going to be a disaster for moco. [/quote]

You suggest that there should have been instructional leadership teams melding experienced countywide program staff with other high schools' faculty. This should have been step #1. Why do we have staff in charge of these program changes who didn't immediately organize such instructional leadership teams to help ensure that new programs are formed with fidelity and high quality?

The fact that this didn't occur tells me that the program changes that central office is promising the community will not occur. The quality will not be there. [b]Central office staff are bureaucrats, not curriculum experts[/b]. They don't know how to lead curriculum change, especially on this massive scale.

And Taylor has made no changes to the flawed process; apparently, he doesn't understand the problem and/or he doesn't have time to pay attention.[/quote]

Some [i]executive-level[/i] staff at central office are agenda-driven, somewhat autocratic bureaucrats, but there are some folks among the line staff who bring more curricular competence, though the constraints under which they work don't let them do as they might prefer.[/quote]

A autocratic bureaucracy constrains curriculum experts in central office? What is the community supposed to do with that? We have to hold the executive-level bureaucrats accountable. It would be nice to think that people with actual expertise had input, but it is clear that they don't, as much as they might want. The community is going to be screwed with this mess.[/quote]

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