Anonymous
Post 07/25/2014 08:47     Subject: Re:OA leadership
so oyster parents have ousted the last 2 principals?


no, they only lobbied to oust the prior one seven years ago. the last principal left on her own for another job.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2014 23:20     Subject: OA leadership
so oyster parents have ousted the last 2 principals?
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2014 22:20     Subject: OA leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'd have had more confidence in an administrator coming from a school filled with high-achieving students. CHEC doesn't fit that bill. Hope she's ready to take good care of the in-bounds kids' needs, too.


My perspective is the complete opposite. I LOVE that Oyster’s new principal was able to win a teacher of the year award while working with such a difficult and diverse (racially, ethnically, socio-economically) student population. That tells me that she knows exactly what she’s doing in the classroom. Based on her experience as an instructional coach and AP, it also shows that she knows how to train and manage teachers. You’re actually concerned that Oyster’s IB parents won’t get their needs met under this new principal?!? Well, you need to save your concern for a far less powerful group of parents. Oyster’s parents have shown time and time again that they know how to get their needs met. Here are a few recent examples: (1) Successfully lobbying Michelle Rhee to get rid of a principal many of the IB parents did not like (Marta Guzman); (2) Getting the DME to change Oyster’s feeder from Cardozo back to Wilson in the updated boundary proposal; (3) Successfully pushing DCPS to hire a new bilingual and biliterate principal. Ask yourself: How many other DC dual immersion schools (DCPS or charter) have bilingual and biliterate principals? Not many. Oyster’s IB parents not getting their needs met? Lol—thanks for my laugh for the day.


ditto this!!
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2014 00:19     Subject: OA leadership
I hope her well at OA. Maybe she'll be the next Melissa Kim. I hope so. Kim did teach for 6 years before joining NewLeaders and was an AP at the Capitol Hill Cluster School and in Arlington.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2014 23:37     Subject: OA leadership
OP here again, I read the resume and plan to go to the meet and greet if I can make it. I'm glad someone with a relatable background is leading OA, and willing to give her the benefit of the doubt in terms of being able to lead until she makes a big mistake (if that happens). She also has a video online from a teaching award she won.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2014 11:12     Subject: OA leadership
Anonymous wrote:Yes, Oyster’s new principal is relatively inexperienced, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t be a great principal. As someone mentioned up thread, Deal’s former principal (Melissa Kim), was also relatively inexperienced when she took the helm. I believe that Ms. Kim only had two or three years of teaching experience (via Teach for America), followed by some sort of teaching fellowship. Then she was an AP for ONE YEAR at some school in Arlington before she became Deal’s principal. By almost all accounts, she was a great principal of a 1,000 plus student body, as opposed to Oyster’s much smaller student body of around 675 students. My point: Ms. Canizales deserves the benefit of the doubt. Time will only tell what type of principal she will be for Oyster. She’s certainly lucky to inherit one of the most active and involved parent communities around.


This
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2014 10:59     Subject: OA leadership
Yes, Oyster’s new principal is relatively inexperienced, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t be a great principal. As someone mentioned up thread, Deal’s former principal (Melissa Kim), was also relatively inexperienced when she took the helm. I believe that Ms. Kim only had two or three years of teaching experience (via Teach for America), followed by some sort of teaching fellowship. Then she was an AP for ONE YEAR at some school in Arlington before she became Deal’s principal. By almost all accounts, she was a great principal of a 1,000 plus student body, as opposed to Oyster’s much smaller student body of around 675 students. My point: Ms. Canizales deserves the benefit of the doubt. Time will only tell what type of principal she will be for Oyster. She’s certainly lucky to inherit one of the most active and involved parent communities around.
dcmom
Post 07/16/2014 08:05     Subject: OA leadership
Whether she was at CHEC as AP for a year or not, she is young and relatively inexperienced. It sounds like there was a real dearth of bilingual candidates, and OA, which prioritized bilingualism, didn't have much choice. It also sounds like she will bring enthusiasm and important middle-school experience that is valuable for the EC model. However, it does seem a shame that DC doesn't have a larger pool of bilingual candidates, particularly ones with more experience to bring.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2014 23:27     Subject: OA leadership
Anonymous wrote:Well, I was on a different (non-Oyster) principal selection panel, and we interviewed the new Oyster principal. (Candidates typically interview with multiple schools.) I just checked her resume, and it lists at the top, from June 2012-Present, that she was/is an instructional coach at CHEC. There is nothing about being an AP, and I can think of no reason why she would not list it on her resume. Maybe the Oyster principal selection panel received a different resume, but it is definitely not listed anywhere on the one that my panel received.


If you're not at Oyster-Adams and you didn't get the resume the O-A panel did, why do you care? Are you at Marie Reed and not happy that you didn't get a bilingual principal? If you didn't get the most recent resume, maybe it means that DCPS had already chosen your principal and didn't feel it was necessary to update you.

Are you saying there's misconduct, misrepresentation, and fraud on the part of DCPS in this and other cases or are you envious that O-A got the only bilingual candidate?

It didn't seem like DCPS had a particularly deep bench of bilingual talent to begin with. That should be a separate thread about DCPS commitment, or lack thereof, to dual immersion programs.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2014 23:19     Subject: OA leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'd have had more confidence in an administrator coming from a school filled with high-achieving students. CHEC doesn't fit that bill. Hope she's ready to take good care of the in-bounds kids' needs, too.
What needs are those that are solely determined by address? How do you know the personal details of all IB students? Which students are advance and in which language? How far out of bounds do you consider OOB? Just over the line? Outside that parts of Wards 1 and 3 which are both in boundary? Clearly you don't know anything about the school beyond your own biased view.

ST_U, go back under your bridge, and ask DCPS for a transfer to Eaton or Ross or Murch if you're that obsessed with boundaries.



????? Please leave other communities out of this discussion. I don't even understand what this means.


If the PP is IB for O-A and thinks the new principal can't serve IB students (whatever that means), then they can ask DCPS for a transfer to another school. DCPS prefers to transfer students to the closest available school unless there are some specific special education needs. PP brought up in bounds schools. These are the closest English-only schools to Oyster elementary building. Maybe they could ask for Marie Reed or Bancroft, but why would you transfer from the top-performing DCPS bilingual elementary to a lower-performing bilingual elementary?

Bridge reference is related to trolls as in the one in the story of the three billy goats.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2014 22:55     Subject: OA leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'd have had more confidence in an administrator coming from a school filled with high-achieving students. CHEC doesn't fit that bill. Hope she's ready to take good care of the in-bounds kids' needs, too.
What needs are those that are solely determined by address? How do you know the personal details of all IB students? Which students are advance and in which language? How far out of bounds do you consider OOB? Just over the line? Outside that parts of Wards 1 and 3 which are both in boundary? Clearly you don't know anything about the school beyond your own biased view.

ST_U, go back under your bridge, and ask DCPS for a transfer to Eaton or Ross or Murch if you're that obsessed with boundaries.



????? Please leave other communities out of this discussion. I don't even understand what this means.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2014 22:49     Subject: Re:OA leadership
When I get interviewed for an internal promotion, recruiter simply referred to my resume on file from 1 position ago. They knew my current role as it was on my HR file. It doesn't really matter what a sounds like outdated resume says. It's a fact that she is an AP at CHEC.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2014 22:36     Subject: OA leadership
Well, I was on a different (non-Oyster) principal selection panel, and we interviewed the new Oyster principal. (Candidates typically interview with multiple schools.) I just checked her resume, and it lists at the top, from June 2012-Present, that she was/is an instructional coach at CHEC. There is nothing about being an AP, and I can think of no reason why she would not list it on her resume. Maybe the Oyster principal selection panel received a different resume, but it is definitely not listed anywhere on the one that my panel received.