Presentation by Mulqueen; you can find the backup here (the budget is spelled out in pages 5 and following)
teacher evaluation
alignment to Common Core
strengthening school culture
teachers getting ELL and sped certification
data warehouse
MassCore
pre-AP training
STEM early college
innovation schools
A few quick things of note: this continues the Focus on Results contract for another four years (at half a million dollars a year); there's a half-time librarian for Union Hill and Chandler Elementary; there's technology for the Goddard Scholars program. Other innovation schools will be getting money through the wraparound services grants and possibly Promise Neighborhood.
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can you explain the focus on results contract?
T, I can try. If you go back to a post from last January (http://who-cester.blogspot.com/2010/01/presentation-on-instruction-leadership.html), you'll see a presentation we had on Instructional Leadership Teams. The idea, with F on R, is to get, as I understand it, staff buy-in and drive towards what "thing" (usually a data point) that school will focus on.
The principals, by and large, seem to think this is going well. I've heard mixed things from teachers; I think that has to do with how well the school team is reflective of the faculty and how democratic the process is.
I will say that I'd hoped that at some point the outside consultants would become unnecessary, and that this could be done in-district.
Nonetheless, I will say that I'm hearing good things about this.
Just a bit of history. When Dr. Caradonio brought in Focus on Results during the 2007/2008 school year, it was with the intent that they would train district level staff to carry out their mission. This seems to be their largest contract to date. Wouldn;t it be easier (i.e., cheaper) to bring on full time staff who would do the work of FoR? 1.75 MIL? This is in addition to a similar amount that they have already received. Sorry, just thinking out loud.
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