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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

2-18-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Seattle Schools' Principals - Who Gets to Go Where?
Long ago, I used to say that having a great school is like a three-legged stool partnership with teachers/staff and parents and principal.  After my personal experience and years of listening to parents' experiences at other schools, I revised that because the biggest leg really is the principal.I feel that way because the principal sets the tone, the focus and usually has a lot of ability in crea

Tuesday Open Thread

UW's department of Computer Science & Engineering has DawgBytes: A Taste of SCE which is their K-12 outreach program.  They have lots of fun events as well as offering a UW CSE student to come out to your school to talk to students.  They have an e-mail list so you can get regular updates of events.Remember the story, There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a fly and The House that Jack Built?  H
2-17-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Things that Make You Go, Hmmm1)  Still waiting to find out who is paying for the costs for the pilot student survey of teachers by students.  2)  Still waiting to find out if teachers are contractually obligated to give out the survey in their classes and/or do students have to take the survey?  Will students be told this is an optional piece of work and allowed to