Comments on: Open Market Transfers and Staff Stability: Does the Left Hand Know What the Right Hand Is Doing? http://www.edwize.org/open-market-transfers-and-staff-stability-does-the-left-hand-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jd2718 http://www.edwize.org/open-market-transfers-and-staff-stability-does-the-left-hand-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing/comment-page-1#comment-62017 jd2718 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:39:31 +0000 http://edwize.org/open-market-transfers-and-staff-stability-does-the-left-hand-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing#comment-62017 We have to make the information Persam mentions widely available. Can we share information about how many September '06 teachers are still teaching in the same school in September '07? We also need to be careful not to be smug about a transfer system that is working against our members in closing schools. Jonathan We have to make the information Persam mentions widely available. Can we share information about how many September ’06 teachers are still teaching in the same school in September ’07?

We also need to be careful not to be smug about a transfer system that is working against our members in closing schools.

Jonathan

]]> By: Persam1197 http://www.edwize.org/open-market-transfers-and-staff-stability-does-the-left-hand-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing/comment-page-1#comment-61977 Persam1197 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:50:07 +0000 http://edwize.org/open-market-transfers-and-staff-stability-does-the-left-hand-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing#comment-61977 The first thing I tell parents, including myself, is to look at the School Reports from the State. Page three is the key; it shows how long teachers at the school have been teaching and how long they have been teaching in that particular school. A school that cannot retain its staff year after year is not going anywhere. In my experience, any school that plays musical chairs with its faculty is not going to make much progress. We see that with Tweed as their lack of stability translates into a system that is in need of real leadership and direction. All Bloomberg and Klein have done is to shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic. For a school to be successful, it must have stability and a committed faculty who believe in the educational vision of the school. My school is an example of this and is making progress since we don't have to reinvent the wheel year after year. However, word is that our new "empowerment network" will be providing instructional "mandates" to all teachers. I saw a draft of the document before school let out and it was pure garbage. For all the talk of "empowerment," it's still the same old stuff coming from Mt. Olympus and my garage has boxes filled with "the next best thing" from the last 15 years. At least our staff knows how to file the stuff we get year after year and continue to collaborate together to educate our kids. That doesn't happen when schools are destabilized. The first thing I tell parents, including myself, is to look at the School Reports from the State. Page three is the key; it shows how long teachers at the school have been teaching and how long they have been teaching in that particular school. A school that cannot retain its staff year after year is not going anywhere.

In my experience, any school that plays musical chairs with its faculty is not going to make much progress. We see that with Tweed as their lack of stability translates into a system that is in need of real leadership and direction. All Bloomberg and Klein have done is to shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic.

For a school to be successful, it must have stability and a committed faculty who believe in the educational vision of the school. My school is an example of this and is making progress since we don’t have to reinvent the wheel year after year. However, word is that our new “empowerment network” will be providing instructional “mandates” to all teachers. I saw a draft of the document before school let out and it was pure garbage. For all the talk of “empowerment,” it’s still the same old stuff coming from Mt. Olympus and my garage has boxes filled with “the next best thing” from the last 15 years.

At least our staff knows how to file the stuff we get year after year and continue to collaborate together to educate our kids. That doesn’t happen when schools are destabilized.

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