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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These comments just show most people have no idea what central staff do or are skilled in.

1) I have never heard of a central employee going to a school once per month to make sure objectives are on the board and teachers are on pace. Yes, that may come up as part of the feedback, but that is not the sole purpose. The truth is when instruction is not high quality, pacing is often an issue and there are teachers who are literally months behind in the curriculum. Some need to start at as basic of a level as knowing what they are supposed to teach for the day, hence the objective on the board.

2) OSSE is in charge of CAPE. They make decisions that central employees are also upset with. We are literally the only “state” that still uses what used to be the PARCC assessment. It is beyond the control of central employees.

3) Central has no control over the actual assignments your child sees, especially homework. RCTs, yes. But I’m going to guess most teachers aren’t sending copies of those home. Yes, there is typically a purchased curriculum, just like every other district in the nation has a curriculum they use. This is not something only DC does. Not even all teachers choose to use the curriculum and then we end up in situations where students aren’t exposed to grade level content.

4) Having worked at both schools and central, I can say the majority of central employees I have met are extremely skilled at their content and are able to go into classrooms and model what they are asking of teachers. They were hired for a reason.[/quote]

To respond to #1:  I have experienced this for the past two years.  The central office staff who does this literally has no idea what my content is or how to teach it.  But I must have an objective (full of words this individual does not understand) and standard (also something they don’t understand).  That’s all they care about.  As for pacing, they want to see we are on the same exact lesson on the same exact day as another teacher.  Which is ridiculous given that teacher might be absent for a few days or might have students that needed more time on a topic.  We were not months behind.  But I understand why some teachers are.  When a third of your class misses one day a week it’s hard to teach grade level content.[/quote]

I don’t believe this. What is the exact CO role of the person who comes to your class monthly to check out your objectives ?[/quote]

Not monthly, quarterly.  Superintendent.[/quote]

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