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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately this year test scores won't show. New assessments with nothing to compare it too. The assessments that carried over from year to year like reading comprehension assessments were already trending positive. The new principal inherently gets a clean slate of data to base her "growth and turnaround efforts" in.

And for context...compare the demographic info for the other schools in ward one against the other schools in ward one. It's demographic makeup is actually quite and anomaly. Always has been, but that's too much of really digging. It's so much easier to tell a half story with little understanding or consideration of what the data truly tells you.

[quote=Anonymous]If teachers this year were able to raise student achievement (and the test scores will show whether that is the case), then it is BECAUSE OF this principal, not despite her. The scores for years under the old principal were terrible. The teachers for whatever reason under the old principal could not produce even the most barely acceptable threshold of test scores, making Cooke the worst elementary school in Ward 1 and the only one in the wars to be among the 40 worst schools in the District. It sounds like the teachers just don't like that the new principal is requiring that they teach what the kids don't know. Some teachers I am sure are also leaving for lack of performance under IMPACT and would not have the option to stay even if they wanted to do so. Either way, it sounds like the principal is on her way to turning around the school, which so needs to be turned around. I am excited for next year and beyond.[/quote][/quote]

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