While Josephine is blogging about charter schools and Timmy is blogging about pizza, pics, and post it notes, nothing has been mentioned about Common Core State Standards.
PA Common Core Standards
The State Board adopted Common Core Standards in July 2010. Since that time, the decision was made to craft a set of PA Common Core Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics. A group of Pennsylvania educators created a draft set of PA Common Core Standards. These new standards mirror the content and rigor of Common Core, but reflect the organization and design of the PA Academic Standards.Pine-Richland School District's website has a whole page dedicated to understanding the Transitions to Common Core Standards.
Eleanor Chute mentioned PA Common Core Standards in Monday's
Study: Pennsylvania students with access to full-time librarians do better
As school districts look for ways to save money, supporters of school libraries point to a recent study showing Pennsylvania students do better on state tests in reading and writing if they have access to strong school libraries.Remember how our illustrious board cut staff in our libraries as listed in the
The study found students with access to a better-staffed, funded, equipped, stocked and accessible school library are more likely to score advanced and less likely to score below basic on the state reading and writing tests.
Cost reductions list totaling approximately $850,000 while twenty administrators received raises?
Ms. Chute continues:
Mary Kay Biagini, director of the school library certification program at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and an analyst for the study, said that 56 percent of public schools in the state didn't have access to a full-time school librarian in 2011-12.
With the economic conditions and resulting library cuts of the past two years, she said, "Students are getting even less of a chance to have access to library resources and information literacy curriculum."
She believes school libraries will be even more important as schools implement the new Common Core State Standards in English language arts and math that call for the curriculum to go deeper in fewer areas rather than skimming the surface in many.
When will this Board and Administration report on more pressing issues such as the transition to Common Core State Standards, 21st Century Education, replacing our fuzzy math program, and the like, instead of concentrating on sports, turf, fundraising, and charter schools? On the two year anniversary of Lebo Citizens blog, I can't think of one wise decision this Board has made.
The superintendent having pizza with kids? Is this really something the head guy should be doing?
ReplyDeleteThe school principal maybe and not even sure that's a good idea. The super... never. What's the purpose? To communicate with the kids?
Maybe one of them can use their new math skills to show how much we're paying per hour for him to eat with the kiddies.
Can't the principals send him reports that would achieve the same thing?
11:32 AM, don't you understand? Pizza is one of Timmy's favorite things.
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Mineo's delivers!
ReplyDeleteOff topic question. Did we or did we not hire an owners liaison to birddog the renovation?
If we did how come he's never at the updates or change order meetings or making timely reports.
Regardless how did something that went over $30m proceed without board approval?
11:32 it's funny you bring up the superintendents pizza lunch with the kids.
ReplyDeleteJust the other day as I was enjoying a slice with pepperoni and mushrooms who do think pulled up a chair and joined my friends and I during our lunch break.
None other than GMC CEO Akerson. He wanted to know how I liked my new Chevy Volt and if I was really getting the mileage I thought I should. LOL
From http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/AA_EC_Grade_03.pdf
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Interpret and/or describe products of whole
numbers (up to and including 10 × 10).
How can the District properly align itself with Pennsylvania Common Core Standards if multiplication tables are not demonstrated to third graders?
http://www.pdesas.org/Standard/CommonCore first link on right
When one searches *Common Core State Standards Mt. Lebanon*,Elaine's Blog is #1 of 700,000+ results. Nothing from our own School District. I elect Elaine to be our new Superintendent ! How do you feel about pizza Elaine ?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't the teachers eat lunch with the kids?
ReplyDeleteThinking back to my middle school days, the last people my friends and I would want to share our lunch time with were the teachers and superintendent.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm fairly certain the teachers felt the same way about us.
So have kids really changed? This is a big day for them to be buddy-buddy with the super and fill him in on what they think about the curriculum.
Anybody ever been drinking with one of your teachers?
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