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10/13/2015 by Sean Brady

Why NY’s Grade 3 – 8 assessments are useless for tracking improvement

New York’s school districts must wait until the summer of 2019 to get an accurate assessment of the effectiveness of their ELA and math strategies.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, implementation

01/26/2015 by Sean Brady

Minimum qualifications for NY’s Commissioner of Education

The New York State Education Department has posted the job of Commissioner of Education. The stated qualifications are boilerplate and underwhelming. I suggest that NYSED’s HR department amend the posting to add the following.

Applicants for the position of Commissioner of Education must demonstrate

– The ability to inspire the state’s professional educators to extraordinary levels of performance.
– Evidence of having eliminated wasteful, bureaucratic burdens on school districts.
– A history of transparency as a leader.

Filed Under: K-12 education, NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, education, graduation rate, Race to the Top, school accountability

01/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning specifically for a BOCES

Have state and federal mandates drained the energy and passion from your BOCES? Is morale low? It doesn’t have to be that way. Reenergize your BOCES. Retake your future. Reengage, recharge and reinvest your faculty, staff and community. Articulate a new mission, vision and core beliefs. Set strategic targets. Articulate priorities, allocate resources, plan and execute.

Filed Under: K-12 education, Strategic planning Tagged With: Common Core, consensus, decision-making, Race to the Top, school accountability, visionizing

12/11/2013 by Sean Brady

Diane Ravitch features Prism’s post on John King & the Common Core

Diane Ravitch has blogged about my recent post, John King, the Common Core and cognitive bias.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core

12/06/2013 by Sean Brady

Nelson Mandela’s inspiring limestone quarry classroom

The tale of how Nelson Mandela — through persistence, ingenuity and guile — transformed a limestone rock quarry into “the University.”

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: assessments, Common Core, Race to the Top

11/14/2013 by Sean Brady

John King, the Common Core and cognitive bias

It’s pretty clear that New York State Commission of Education John King is one of the nation’s top advocates for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. It’s also becoming increasingly apparent that he may be doing more to undermine the implementation of the Common Core than he is doing to support it. For […]

Filed Under: Decision-making, NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: biases, Common Core, decision-making, fallacies

10/04/2013 by Sean Brady

Data driven instruction

The Lockport City School District data driven instruction process flow chart is simple and clear.

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: Common Core, data, Race to the Top

03/26/2013 by Sean Brady

State ed predicts sharp decline in ELA and Math pass rates

The New York State Education Department is predicting a sharp decline in ELA and Math pass rates.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, data, graduation rate, PARCC, Race to the Top, school accountability

08/03/2011 by Sean Brady

School planning in the era of Race to the Top

With the adoption of Race to the Top, school districts across the country are being forced to change directions in mid-stream. Districts will thrive if they can overcome inertia without a substantial expense of resources, including wasted time, energy and budget. District leadership will need to adjust their current trajectory and redirect resources to a new set of priorities quickly and efficiently. Chenango Forks Central School District provides a model of planning dexterity that other school districts may want to emulate.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, education, nclb, PARCC, Race to the Top

04/25/2011 by Sean Brady

The Issues With High-stakes Testing and PARCC

As a result of Race to the Top, most states will soon administer even more high-stakes tests. For example, in the 2014-15 school year, 25 states, including New York, will begin administering PARCC assessments in grades 3-12 four times per year. At the same time, there is an inexorable push to connect teacher and administrator performance reviews, tenure decisions and pay to student performance. This post discusses four specific traps that I believe implementers of RTTT and the PARCC assessments will have to avoid if their reforms are to bear fruit.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, education, high stakes tests, nclb, PARCC, Race to the Top, school accountability, test scores

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