So I've been kicking around this notion of 'combat pay' for about two years now, primarily because I've got an unnatural fascination with how we identify quality teachers and how we utilize them, or don't utilize them, as the case...
At yesterday's press availability Superintendent Hinojosa talked a bit about the "triage" under way to save the district's AU4-soon-to-be-AU5 schools. At one point in the conversation, he stated that the high schools are in trouble because, logically, "learning is cumulative."...
That's a question to get a lot of debate at tomorrow's monthly board briefing as two campuses -- Samuell and Spruce -- may well find themselves the district's first Year 5 Academically Unacceptable schools. Five other schools could find themselves...
I've got a couple of district documents for you all. Nothing new or earth-shattering, but they relate to posts that got some decent discussion here, so I thought I'd share: ** You can read here the full plan for Hinojosa's...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Something very similar to DISD's high school redesign effort has just been declared a failure by a research study. And by "failure" they meant better test scores. But resulting in...
Anybody watch the HBO documentary last night chronicling one year in the life of an inner-city Baltimore high school? The parallels to what's going in Dallas high schools like Spruce and Samuell are striking: state "accountability" rules mandate big-time changes....
Administrators briefed trustees a little while ago on their plans to blow up H. Grady Spruce High School. While the board heard three options for reorg, really only one of those was feasible and would actually shock the system, Superintendent...
So the big news at today's board briefing, I hear, is going to be a radical shake-up at Spruce High School, where test scores were pretty awful for the fourth-straight year. I spoke with somebody yesterday who's seen the plan...
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