Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 13:18     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
For 24-25 year:
What did they use this school year in place of GoGuardian?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 03:51     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:In the last month due to snow and holidays we had very little school, so 3000 in the last month is not a good measure. Also, using the entire teaching staff is also bad statistics. Pre-K through 3rd are unlikely to use it. I don’t know the number but those teachers should be subtracted from 14,000. Suggesting that it’s poor classroom management only shows ignorance of what happens in a classroom. Passive site blocking does not keep kids on task because you’d have to block the whole internet. GoGuarduan allows us to use the technology at a level we need to prepare kids for their future and ensure they are fully engaged. I teach fifth grade and have taught 4th and 5th for 24 years. No one questions my classroom management skills and I need Go Guardian.


I'd LOVE if instead central came to observe classes, they came to teach a lesson. Everyone should be gunning for that. They'd get a lesson real quick in classroom management. They have no idea what its like to be in a classroom in 2024 but they sure can pretend they do.


Central won't because they know they'll fail and they'll say that the reason for that failure is because they don't have a "lasting connection" with the kids, but you the teacher do. They're crafty like that.


It seriously should be built into their contract to have to visit a class at each level ES MS HS and teach for one day once a year. Every one of them at Central. Well maybe not the building services unless they too can contribute in some way to the ES MS and HSs.


So we should have HR, IT, Accounting/ Finance, Social Work come teach a class across all three levels? Also those folks that only taught HS should come teach ES? That would be an efficient use of their and more importantly our kids time?
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2024 10:57     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In the last month due to snow and holidays we had very little school, so 3000 in the last month is not a good measure. Also, using the entire teaching staff is also bad statistics. Pre-K through 3rd are unlikely to use it. I don’t know the number but those teachers should be subtracted from 14,000. Suggesting that it’s poor classroom management only shows ignorance of what happens in a classroom. Passive site blocking does not keep kids on task because you’d have to block the whole internet. GoGuarduan allows us to use the technology at a level we need to prepare kids for their future and ensure they are fully engaged. I teach fifth grade and have taught 4th and 5th for 24 years. No one questions my classroom management skills and I need Go Guardian.


I'd LOVE if instead central came to observe classes, they came to teach a lesson. Everyone should be gunning for that. They'd get a lesson real quick in classroom management. They have no idea what its like to be in a classroom in 2024 but they sure can pretend they do.


Central won't because they know they'll fail and they'll say that the reason for that failure is because they don't have a "lasting connection" with the kids, but you the teacher do. They're crafty like that.


It seriously should be built into their contract to have to visit a class at each level ES MS HS and teach for one day once a year. Every one of them at Central. Well maybe not the building services unless they too can contribute in some way to the ES MS and HSs.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2024 10:55     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In the last month due to snow and holidays we had very little school, so 3000 in the last month is not a good measure. Also, using the entire teaching staff is also bad statistics. Pre-K through 3rd are unlikely to use it. I don’t know the number but those teachers should be subtracted from 14,000. Suggesting that it’s poor classroom management only shows ignorance of what happens in a classroom. Passive site blocking does not keep kids on task because you’d have to block the whole internet. GoGuarduan allows us to use the technology at a level we need to prepare kids for their future and ensure they are fully engaged. I teach fifth grade and have taught 4th and 5th for 24 years. No one questions my classroom management skills and I need Go Guardian.


I'd LOVE if instead central came to observe classes, they came to teach a lesson. Everyone should be gunning for that. They'd get a lesson real quick in classroom management. They have no idea what its like to be in a classroom in 2024 but they sure can pretend they do.


Central won't because they know they'll fail and they'll say that the reason for that failure is because they don't have a "lasting connection" with the kids, but you the teacher do. They're crafty like that.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2024 10:16     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:In the last month due to snow and holidays we had very little school, so 3000 in the last month is not a good measure. Also, using the entire teaching staff is also bad statistics. Pre-K through 3rd are unlikely to use it. I don’t know the number but those teachers should be subtracted from 14,000. Suggesting that it’s poor classroom management only shows ignorance of what happens in a classroom. Passive site blocking does not keep kids on task because you’d have to block the whole internet. GoGuarduan allows us to use the technology at a level we need to prepare kids for their future and ensure they are fully engaged. I teach fifth grade and have taught 4th and 5th for 24 years. No one questions my classroom management skills and I need Go Guardian.


I'd LOVE if instead central came to observe classes, they came to teach a lesson. Everyone should be gunning for that. They'd get a lesson real quick in classroom management. They have no idea what its like to be in a classroom in 2024 but they sure can pretend they do.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2024 10:14     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:We use it a lot in elementary school but I did check around and a lot of our teachers said that the county only offered basic training a few years ago and nothing more. So thr opportunity was there but the program was not supported.


I'm sorry but it requires virtually no training. It's different if they didn't know it was an option to them, but come on. You log in via Clever..click the class...hit start..you're done. You'll then learn to close inappropriate tabs,etc. Not rocket science.

Anyone with a functioning brain can figure it out after about 5 minutes.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2024 07:31     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
In the last month due to snow and holidays we had very little school, so 3000 in the last month is not a good measure. Also, using the entire teaching staff is also bad statistics. Pre-K through 3rd are unlikely to use it. I don’t know the number but those teachers should be subtracted from 14,000. Suggesting that it’s poor classroom management only shows ignorance of what happens in a classroom. Passive site blocking does not keep kids on task because you’d have to block the whole internet. GoGuarduan allows us to use the technology at a level we need to prepare kids for their future and ensure they are fully engaged. I teach fifth grade and have taught 4th and 5th for 24 years. No one questions my classroom management skills and I need Go Guardian.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 12:44     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We use it a lot in elementary school but I did check around and a lot of our teachers said that the county only offered basic training a few years ago and nothing more. So thr opportunity was there but the program was not supported.


Very typical of MCPS - roll something out to big fanfare and then never follow through on what is needed to sustain it.


Oh, I know, and I blame Monifa. It's all her fault. Why does the board put up with this?
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 12:27     Subject: Re:Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's hilarious about the decision to remove GoGuardian is that McKnight cited a full implementation of GoGuardian this month as a defense for her compliance with DCI's chaos and dysfunction.

So how will that work once they defund and remove GoGuardian from MCPS?

She meant Guardian, which is a title 9 compliant platform. Crazy she'd get that wrong in that letter, since her job seems to be on the line.


Yup. Two different things:

https://guardiank12.com/

https://www.goguardian.com/
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 12:18     Subject: Re:Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's hilarious about the decision to remove GoGuardian is that McKnight cited a full implementation of GoGuardian this month as a defense for her compliance with DCI's chaos and dysfunction.

So how will that work once they defund and remove GoGuardian from MCPS?

She meant Guardian, which is a title 9 compliant platform. Crazy she'd get that wrong in that letter, since her job seems to be on the line.


Good grief. Yet another sign of her lackluster performance.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 11:37     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:We use it a lot in elementary school but I did check around and a lot of our teachers said that the county only offered basic training a few years ago and nothing more. So thr opportunity was there but the program was not supported.


A sub figured it out but teachers couldn’t? Not to mention they haven’t figured it out between one another in school or with help from others after all these years?

If that’s the case then I with the folks that look at the numbers and say not enough of folks are using it so why continue to pay for all these licenses.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 11:32     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:We use it a lot in elementary school but I did check around and a lot of our teachers said that the county only offered basic training a few years ago and nothing more. So thr opportunity was there but the program was not supported.


Very typical of MCPS - roll something out to big fanfare and then never follow through on what is needed to sustain it.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 10:57     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
We use it a lot in elementary school but I did check around and a lot of our teachers said that the county only offered basic training a few years ago and nothing more. So thr opportunity was there but the program was not supported.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 10:55     Subject: Is GoGuardian going away???
My IT husband said that there is no reason to keep a license when so a few people are using it. It’s expensive. So he was on board with cutting it (from that point of view).

My middle school son said that his teachers use it every day. My high school son said his teachers don’t use it at all.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 10:45     Subject: Re:Is GoGuardian going away???
Anonymous wrote:What's hilarious about the decision to remove GoGuardian is that McKnight cited a full implementation of GoGuardian this month as a defense for her compliance with DCI's chaos and dysfunction.

So how will that work once they defund and remove GoGuardian from MCPS?

She meant Guardian, which is a title 9 compliant platform. Crazy she'd get that wrong in that letter, since her job seems to be on the line.