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IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT STANDARDS

IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT STANDARDS. Karen Bracken www.tnacc.net. The Four Assurances Are:. Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy

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IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT STANDARDS

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  1. IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT STANDARDS Karen Bracken www.tnacc.net

  2. The Four Assurances Are: • Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy • Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most • Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction • Turning around our lowest-achieving schools

  3. Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy • Standards were adopted in Tennessee sight unseen • Standards were never tested, researched, piloted, internationally benchmarked and have been proven to be not age appropriate • The standards, assessment are national standards as will be curriculum. • There has been no empirical data that shows standards affect learning • Words have meaning (Assessment=perceived value to society, Testing=measure of objective knowledge) • Per Dr. Jason Zimba Common Core only prepares our children for non-selective colleges. The colleges most kids go to but not the kind of colleges their parents aspire. • There is no empirical proof that international test scores have any correlation to economic success or competiveness. • None of the scores or ranks from the international tests have been validated to represent the overall quality of schooling in a country nor can they predict or explain economic strength (According to PISA/OECD, one should not use them in this way. • Utility Patents – things that make life easier or better. Innovation patents. US=121K Japan=50K • Global Competiveness Index – US #2 behind Sweden (small pop) while China is #58

  4. Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction • We had to have common standards and assessments in order to collect interoperable and comparable data for the federal government and 3rd party organizations and agencies. • Lifelong Learning 2020 • Promoting Grit, Tenacity and Perseverance

  5. Turning around our lowest-achieving schools • Achievement School District Director – Chris Barbic • Broad Superintendent Academy • Charter Schools are taxation without representation • Gerstner, Finn, Tucker, Gates, Broad all believe we must give up local control of education • Vouchers will put every school under federal control and disrupt tax structure • TN passed legislation to increase Charters and to change the administration of Charters in order to gain points on the RTTT application.

  6. Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most • Teachers will teach to the standards and nothing more • NCLB waivers were temporary and are due to expire. Next waivers will include redistribution of teachers • The goal is to get rid of as many traditional teachers as possible. They need teachers that will “go along” with the program. • alternative pathways like Teach for America have committed to grow its Tennessee corps from the current 100 to 500 over the next five years. Additionally, The New Teacher Project, which recruits mid-career changers in shortage subject areas, has committed to recruit, select, and prepare an additional 750 teachers over the next five years, in addition to the 150 teachers it currently brings in Memphis and Nashville. • Both Commissioner Huffman and ASD Director Chris Barbic are from TFA. $6 million dollar no-bid contract with TFA in 2012.

  7. Teachfor.us TFA Blog • Teach for America, which sponsored the Pennsylvania Local Progressive Candidate Training Program, is likely conducting another kind of progressive training in the public school system. Perusing through TeachFor.us, a site designed for TFA teachers to blog about their experiences and share ideas, you’ll find many startling quotes, such as: • “ Math objectives don’t exactly match up with the super holistic super progressive educational activities I had wanted to sneak into my lesson plans.” • “My kids say ‘Barack Obama!’ rather than ‘Here’ when I take roll now … haha.” • “I decided to apply the next day. The decision was based mostly on my perception that TFA was a great way to continue the pursuits I had started working for during Obama’s campaign.” • “ My students boo every time John McCain is mentioned, I am planning on reading a book written by Amnesty International.” • “It’s just a shame that so much of the region has been devoured by rampant capitalism.”

  8. Remember These Tennessee Faces Kevin Huffman Chris Barbic & Gov. Haslam Sen. Dolores Gresham Rep. Harry Brooks

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