The Texas Education Agency has published its preliminary 2017 accountability ratings as of August 15, 2017.
Last year two EPISD schools failed to meet standards. Both schools improved enough to meet standards this year.
This year the number is four.
Canyon Hills middle school, Guillen middle school, Bassett middle school and Whitaker elementary have been rated “improvement required”.
All schools in the Ysleta and Socorro districts met the state standards.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Dan Wever sent in a link to a published study of active learning.
You can read the report at https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6825/Challenges%20in%20Educational%20Reform%3a%20An%20Experiment%20on%20Active%20Learning%20in%20%20Mathematics.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
The study divided schools into “treatment” (those that applied active learning interventions) and “control” (non active learning) groups.
Surprisingly, we find that the control group learned significantly more than any of the
intervention groups. The students using only the active learning approach learned about 17
percent less than the status quo. The loss in the group that also received technology was 25
percent of a standard deviation. We also find that the best students were harmed the most by this
intervention.
We deserve better
Brutus
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We heard from two different sources that EPISD is sending expensive cupcakes to employees on their birthdays.
From a reader:
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Could it be that we are being played?
The chief financial officer of the city retired right in the middle of the budget process. We wrote about that in Strange retirement.
The former chief financial officer of the city was featured in a Times article the other day where she said that the process of giving a big contract to one of the superintendent’s cronies was not “transparent”.
The superintendent probably is not happy with her. Will he ask for her resignation?
If that happens she will be out of work, but fortunately for her the city has a position open.
Does the new mayor like her? She served on the appointed board of managers of EPISD while he did. They arranged for her to go to work for the district the first day Texas law allowed a former board member to become an employee. She appeared in a published picture of the new mayor’s announcement of his run for mayor.
Stay tuned.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Did anyone else know about what the comment addresses?
I wouldn’t hold my breath getting a straight answer out of EPISD. Nothing they do make sense anymore. Case in point, the dismantling of the once good science department with its leaders who have helped science teachers in the classrooms.
EPISD wants to be a STEAM district but reassigned TIS personnel until a decision was make to allow them to keep their positions. Now the science department and personnel, the SRC resource center, and Live Materials have gotten the ax.
Don’t expect campuses to appropriately use the funds that have previously been used to stock the SRC. It will not be cost effective to purchase science supplies at the campus level. The district was able to purchase in large quantity at a lower price.
Smh. EPISD is going downhill at break neck speed. Too many yahoos in district administrative positions making terrible decisions that do NOT benefit the students. Whoever (TB) is making these horrible decisions should be fired, effective immediately.
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