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Monday, June 9, 2014

6-9-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Seattle School District Priorities (By Senior Staff)
Again, more from the Retreat and analysis later but here's what staff put out as priorities (and this in reference to trying to do the bell time analysis work plus all these items). Seattle School District Priorities 2014-2015
Seattle Schools and Later Bell Times
Just wanted to put this up for tonight; some further input from the Retreat and thoughts tomorrow.Seattle School District presentation on bell times. Framework timeline for work on bell times.Board Resolution (not yet adopted) on later bell times.


Letter to Seattle Schools Principals from Superintendent Banda
 Also to update: The C&I Committee Chair and staff have agreed to move the math adoption update to first place on the agenda.  So that discussion will be at 4:30 pm, not later as I has reported. Letter from Banda (bold mine).  It looks like cooler heads have prevailed...for now.Dear Principals,Over the last few weeks there has been extensive focus on the K-5 math elementary adoption. When we s

Curriculum & Instruction Meeting Today; Update
I just checked in with the Board office on the order of items on what should be a very enlightening Curriculum and Instruction Committee meeting.  The math adoption was added late Saturday and, if you are following this blog, things are changing fast and furiously.Because this agenda had been made up for awhile and other staff have presentations that were on the agenda previously, in the name of f


Shelter in Place at several Seattle South End Elementaries
From SPS communications 8 minutes ago via Twitter:Report of shots fired nearby. These schools in shelter-in-place: Orca K-8, Aki Kurose MS, and Dearborn Pk, Graham Hill, ML King, Wing LukeFrom SPD tweets:Officers responding to area of 51 Ave S/S Brandon St for a reported shooting. No known victims at this time.


Math Adoption Documents
More documents at Scribed from Julian A.  They include info on 2015 Math in Focus and several school math waivers.  Scroll to the bottom to access other documents. 


6-8-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools' Math Adoption: What's Happening at Your School?A reader suggested that we start a thread and try to keep track of what is happening at all the K-5/K-8s vis a vis the math adoption.  There are 59 elementary schools and 10 K-8s so I'm not going to try to list them all here. In the Comments Section, note your school, what you are hearing at your schoo